CP 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.
>
Ah! So that's why I am growing moobs ;-)
Dave
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