On 10/7/08 00:11, in article
76d8be3a-95a2-4f8b-8925-495039a16d19@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"CP"
<colinpaulturner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
>
It was interesting to hear an African politician say on the radio the
other
day that they absolutely do not want GM foods. I wish I'd heard more but
his problem with them was that the seed would belong to multinational
gigantic companies.
--
Sacha
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