Stop Eating Process(ed)
Yet another food recall is in the works. This one may apparently become one of the widest in history. It involves some thing called a flavour enhancer. Specifically one made by Basic Food Flavors, Inc. and called a hydrolyzed vegetable protein (or HVP). Doesn't that sound delicious? This is an interesting recall as it involves thousands of products many of which do not even list HVP in their (long?) list of ingredients. It is also interesting because it involves processed foods.
"If you can't pronounce it or spell it then it likely is not any good for you." I completely agree with that statement from the movie Food Inc. Ingredients that require an acronym to allow us to remember their names are an ominous sign of a bad brew. If your recipe requires hydrolyzed vegetable protein you need to change it or hire a better cook. Maybe the cook needs to ask his grandma what she used to enhance flavours.....hmmm. Salt? Pepper? Maybe a touch of garlic or chile. Or those amazing spices - curry, coriander, basil, thyme. Yep...they are handy.
The dilemma, of course, is that you can't make a pizza that will last six months, or cookies that will have a shelf life of one year, without some mad-made chemicals. The only way to stop these companies is for consumers to stop agreeing to ingest chemicals. So just stop.
But, hey, if you can't wait to bury your hands into a bag of President's Choice Mustard-flavoured Pretzel Nuggets you can't be helped. In that case a law banning preservatives and artificial colours and flavours needs to be passed. Municipalities have started banning pesticides...so why not ban their equivalents in the food chain?
Enjoy that Pretzel Nugget.
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