Re: Tesco sinks yet again

In article <k8qdnR3J8YTMLO7VRVnyjAA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
   Dave <davenpat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > 
> >>Shouldn't trading standards be aware of this?
> > 
> > 
> > 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'.

Absolutely. I hadn't noticed that as I was looking only for "unfamiliar
ingredients"! Sorry.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > All the other things have probably been part of my home-cooked food at
one
> > time or another. 
> > 
> > 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  :-(

Soya is in nearly all processed food now and the US, one of the main soya
producers - possibly <the> main one, not sure - does not, or did not
guarantee to separate GM & non-GM soya. Understand the storage facilities
at distribution depots generally don't have facilities for keeping it
separate.

> > 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.

Thanks. Haven't had time yet!

Cheers
Jane

> Dave

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Jane Gillett   :   j.gillett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   :   Totnes, Devon.