Jane Gillett wrote:
> In article <HIWdnQqkfueK1O_VnZ2dnUVZ8uSdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Dave <davenpat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Ingredients
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>>****k Fat,Water,Chicken Liver(12%),
>>Chicken (11%),Duck Liver (6%), ****k
>>liver (6%), Orange Puree (4.5%),
>>Duck Fat, ****k (2.5%), Chicken Skin,
>>Rice Flour, Salt, Milk Proteins,
>>Spices, sugar, Dextrose, Onion,
>>emusifier (Citric Acid Esters of Mono
>>and Di-Glycerides of Fatty Adds),
>>Antioxident (Sodium Ascorbate),
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>>Preservative (Sodium Nitrite).
>>Orange Puree contains:
>>Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Orange,
>>Sugar, Gelling agent (Pectin), Acidity
>>Regulator (citric acid). Spices contain:
>>Pepper, Hydrolysed Soya Protein, Sugar,
>>Cardamom, Marjoram, Nutmeg, Mace,
>>Capsi***, Rosemary Basil, Ginger,
>>Cur***a, Maize Starch, Vanilla Extract
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>>Hands up of all that know what this is please?
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>>It is Tesco's own brand of their new Duck and Orange Pate.
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>>I like duck and orange pate on granary bread sometimes, for breakfast
>>and I could not find the usual brand in the store, so I bought this.
>>Needless to say it resides in the bin now.
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>>Shouldn't trading standards be aware of this?
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> Which ingredients do you think are suspicious?
It isn't the ingredients that I find offensive, but the lack of duck in
what was described as 'duck and orange pate'.
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> Emulsifier - Antioxident - Preservative? Those are the only ones I can
see
> which don't occur in what I would call "traditional food". I have no
idea
> what they do in the human body but they are widely used in most prepared
> foods and I haven't seen any suggestions of <specific> bad effects
although
> it's always possible we haven't identified any particular ill-effects
yet.
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> All the other things have probably been part of my home-cooked food at
one
> time or another.
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> Possible exceptions:
> Rice flour, dextrose, hydrolysed soya protein.
> I haven't used those exact forms but the first two are rice and sugar;
soya
> is a good protein - will almost certainly contain some GM soya if that
> worries you.
Anything GM worries me :-(
> Maize starch is extracted from corn; cur***a - no idea what that is -
I'd
> guess a spice - will have a hunt around - google initially - anybody
here
> use cur***a?
A quick google likens/links it to the ginger family.
Dave
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