On Jul 8, 7:26 pm, Dave <daven...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Jane Gillett wrote:
> > In article <HIWdnQqkfueK1O_VnZ2dnUVZ8uSdn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > Dave <daven...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >>Ingredients
>
> >>****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),
>
> >>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
>
> >>Hands up of all that know what this is please?
>
> >>It is Tesco's own brand of their new Duck and Orange Pate.
>
> >>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.
>
> >>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'.
>
>
>
> > 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 :-(
GM or non-GM, soya is not good news for men, Dave: in moderate to
large amounts it will raise your estrogen level - something that, as
men, we can well do without.
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