Re: [CH] Bumblebee Tuna and extracts...
Tina Brooks (shoestring_louise@yahoo.com)
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:49:28 -0700 (PDT)
I trust Greg to cook for me long before I'll trust Bumblebee. lol!
Okay, so Epicurious says that Paprika is just pure ground peppers... That's one way to make it.
The FDA says it is something else... It can be used for colour or for heat, some food manufacturers use it for both...
So which is it, it's there for the colour or it's there for the heat? And worse... as a consumer... how do you know?
Fwiw, the CFIA lists Paprika as a known wheat source, so unless you're certain that Bumblebee tuna's use of "paprika" is the pure powdered chillies that one might purchase at the grocery store, I'm not so sure. One sort of wonders how "wheat" gets into pure ground chillies.
As a food manufacturer, if we were to use paprika, we would ground the peppers ourselves to be sure it was pure pepper, but more often than not, pepper powders, unless specifically marked as 100% pure, contain fillers and some even contain other spices.
Just another way for food companies to hide from consumers the crap they're putting into our food.
I thought this was cool... Judge for yourself: http://tinyurl.com/4s5qot
The longer I'm in the food business the more skeptical I am of commercial food products.
T
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From: =Mark <mstevens@exit109.com>
To: Tina Brooks <shoestring_louise@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:45:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CH] Bumblebee Tuna and extracts...
I hope you don't let him cook for you... :-)
http://tinyurl.com/5y6xcs
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:30:42 -0700 (PDT), Tina Brooks wrote
> I mentioned this discussion to Greg and his response began with
> "Paprika is oleoresin"
>
> He gave me this link: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/cfr73345.html
>
> now I'm feeling even more cynical. :)
>
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> Tina Brooks
> VP Marketing, Peppermaster Hot Sauces <a rel="nofollow"
> target="_blank" href="http://www.peppermaster.com">www.peppermaster.com
> </a>Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.pepperfire.ca">www.pepperfire.ca</a>
>
> Phone: (514) 393-3430
> 26 St. Jean Baptiste, East
> Rigaud, Quebec, Canada
> J0P 1P0
>
> Network with me on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
> href="http://www.gourmetbusinessforum.com/">www.gourmetbusinessforum.com</a>
-- The premier online business community for food professionals
>
> <em><font color="#ff0000">Many persons have a wrong idea of what
> constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-
> gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.</font> <font
> color="#4040ff">Helen Keller</font></em>
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=Mark
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