Processed food .. ingredients .. corporations and the decline of free trade

an ongoing thread with many tangents ...



Flavourists


look in your fridge or cupboards and how many of the foods contain the words natural flavours or artificial flavours.

The similarities between theses two are more important than their differences. Whereas natural flavours may insiniuate goodness a natural flavour is not necessarily healthier than an artificial one. Natural ones can contain deadly poision whereas their artificial brother wouldn't. Both are man made additives, chemical infusions.

A natural flavour is one that has been derived from out - of - date technology. Artificial ones often contain the same chenicals produced through different methods.


Companies need not reveal the exact nature of what goes into their flavours so as to protect their brands. But MacDonalds, in response to Vegetarian Journal, have adknowledged that its fries derive some of theri characteristic flavour from 'animal products'

 

The man made chemicals that are added to processed foods is a very big worry for me. Especially since I don't know what they are, I guess all kinds of crap falls under the Natural and Artificial Flavouring lines.

For some reason I've never looked upon natural flavourings being the healthier choice though. I guess it must of been the word flavourings I was never really tempted by.

One tangent would be what these flavourings actually do to the "original" food. Will they decrease their nutritional value. If you got (and heaven forbid!) all your veggies from a tin, would they have any benifits on your health, or was all the goodness sucked out long ago...

A wandering mind here suggest we're happy in the west to accept fake versions of original products as long as the packaging is right. I saw an advert on the tele for some home odourises for the Christmas season...Mulled Wine, Chesnuts and the like.

It's like, you don't need to have mulled wine anymore, just the smell of it gives the impression you have. And no need to roast chesnuts with the family, we've taken all the hassel out of that, plug in and sit back.

So when we take our food this way, McDonalds, ready meals, supermarket fruits from the world over, we just don't care if the burger is 10% beef. Tastes like a burger and it's always ready, none of that cooking malarky!

 

mcdonalds fries in the uk don't contain nay beef flavouring. however, in the USA, it's a different story.

 

this is the exact reason why over the last week and till the 24th im doing a detox. im eating only fresh veg, have cut out all processed sugars, dairy and white flour products and am taking herbs to clean out my system. i feel great and only now am i realising how much crap is thrown into our faces every day, as we are told it is 'normal'..... yick!

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the oil is vegetable oil but I can assure you that the flavouring used to make the fries taste as they do all over the world does contain animal products. The whole point of MacDonalds is standardization through a production line process. The fries are delivered ready cooked and are simply reheated in oil. If you are vegetarian and eat these fries in the belief that they contain no animal products then you have to ask yourself some questions. All the fries are all the same throughout MacDanalds both here and the states.