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Ground_Loop:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on May 23, 2022, 05:36:34 pm ---I'm not going to get into this "gluten free"  thing in particular, but I'm sure many people would be surprised to know the whole list of ingredients of typical food and how you would never have suspected some ingredients to be in there in the first place. Of course one of the most common is added sugar in just about everything. Do people naturally expect significant amounts of sugar in salty food? Yet it's there. But the list is endless.

Of course there is also hype around alleged "better" industrial food. Still industrial shit.

And some mentions are there just to help people choose their food based on the assumption that they might actually not know what food contains and why. It may sound obvious to you that lettuce is lactose or gluten free, but how many people actually know what lactose (or better yet, gluten) really is?

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I once developed an ingredient delivery and mixing system for Keebler Cookies. I found it interesting that if the label said sugar free there couldn't be a trace of sugar detectable. And we went to great mechanical and logical lengths to ensure a sugar free mix had undetectable amounts of sugar. On the other hand since none of the labels said 'bug free' the mix could legally contain insects...at least up to a point.
MikeK:

--- Quote from: free_electron on May 24, 2022, 02:20:08 am ---just saw a package of cheese .. "contain milk and milk products"  no shit sherlock ! who'd have thought that that was even a remote possibility ?
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That's because we now live in a world of fake cheese.  And in some cases it's more expensive than real cheese.
free_electron:

--- Quote from: MikeK on May 24, 2022, 02:35:12 am ---
--- Quote from: free_electron on May 24, 2022, 02:20:08 am ---just saw a package of cheese .. "contain milk and milk products"  no shit sherlock ! who'd have thought that that was even a remote possibility ?
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That's because we now live in a world of fake cheese.  And in some cases it's more expensive than real cheese.

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LOL. so true. cheese from a spray can... Somewhere in switzerland there is a cow yodeling mnoooooooooooooooo
TimFox:

--- Quote from: free_electron on May 24, 2022, 02:20:08 am ---just saw a package of cheese .. "contain milk and milk products"  no shit sherlock ! who'd have thought that that was even a remote possibility ? 

Now i've probably offended the politically correct lactose intolerant people. note : i'm not making fun of , nor denying the existence of lactose intolerant people. i know several personally. I can't imagine living a life without being able to enjoy an ice-cream( a real ice-cream made with eggs, cream, sugar and vanilla. none of that soy milk , guar gum , ground-up beetles vanilla flavor crap.) or yoghurt without having the trots for four days.

I'm just wondering why the hell a packet of cheese needs a label that says "contains milk". isn't that obvious ? its cheese ! And before you cry "what about plant based or soy based?". THAT AIN'T CHEESE ! that's a substitute.

Which is another one of the things i wonder about. "we need to eat plant based stuff. soy based bayon , beyond burger , tofy shaped like a t-bone, including a fake piece of bone... i can get that you don't like eating animals. fully understood. but why does it need to be made to LOOK LIKE MEAT ? I don't have my steak mashed up to look like a block of tofu or extruded to look like soybean sprouts. have a head of lettuce. it's actually made from processed pork chops.

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Was that actually a package of cheese, or "pasteurized process cheese food" or other industrial product?
https://www.delish.com/food-news/a46872/your-favorite-cheese-might-not-be-real/  has the legal definitions in the US for Velveeta-type products.
free_electron:

--- Quote from: TimFox on May 24, 2022, 03:01:08 am ---Was that actually a package of cheese, or "pasteurized process cheese food" or other industrial product?

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it was some goat cheese with blueberries. can't find the wrapper.

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