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Can You Guess the Product?

Posted in Foodstuff, Health & Nutrition, In the News, Ingredients, Libations, Recipes, tagged , , , , , , , , on 03/05/2009 | Leave a Comment »

What it’s made of:

combined with water, sugar, carbon dioxide, natural caramel flavor, and caffeine from coffee beans.
Answer after the jump.

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To Try: Homemade English Muffins

Posted in Recipes, tagged , , , , , , on 02/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »

Sometimes, standing in the bread aisle of the grocery store, I’m tempted to just give up.  Have you read an ingredient label lately?  How food manufacturers turn something so elemental to human existence into a bagged chemistry lab is beyond me.  C’mon, do I really need xanthan gum, caramel color, and high fructose syrup in [...]

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High Fructose Corn Syrup Linked to Mercury Contamination

Posted in Foodstuff, Health & Nutrition, In the News, Ingredients, tagged , , , , on 02/05/2009 | 4 Comments »

Scary.  This stuff seems to be in everything, from the obvious offenders, bottled drinks and ketchup, to the more innocuous-seeming bread and yogurt.
The Washington Post’s Kim O’Donnel reports:
“Two studies released this week suggest that caustic soda, when produced the old-fashioned mercury way, becomes contaminated with mercury, which then contaminates the HFCS and ultimately, the food. Mercury is a toxic [...]

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