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From: beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: lard and other nasty food ingredients
Message-ID: <354@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 17:59:03 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 28 17:59:03 1985
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Reply-To: beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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Someone said:
>> Every good veg knows that Nabisco unnecessarily uses lard in their 
>> crackers (gag me with a former animal!), while Sunshine proudly 
>> announces their products as using "100% vegetable shortening".
>> Really -- who would want another cracker from the same company who puts lard
>> in "Vegetable Thins"? :-)
>> 
I don't have any "Vegetable Thins" around, but Nabisco doesn't necessarily
use lard in ALL their crackers.  I assumed that they did after reading
this note.  However, I was pleased to see that the Triscuits on my shelf
have the following ingredients:  whole wheat, vegetable oil (partially
hydroegnated soybean and palm oils or hydrogenated coconut oil) and salt.
TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve product freshness.

I'm not thrilled with their choices of oils or the TBHQ (whatever that
is), but I don't eat Triscuits for nutrition.  Check the labels.
Complain to the companies.  But remember that just because a company
screws up on one(or more) products doesn't mean all of their products are bad.

				Beth Katz
				{seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!beth


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