Natural flavoring

[Dave W]

Mmmmm, vanilla!

[westen44]

I never liked vanilla and now there is actually a good reason to not like it. 

[gweimer]

So many inappropriate things to say...I'm passing on all of them.

[Pilgrim]

"I gotcha all-organic foods right heah...."   

[4stringer77]

No kidding? I would have thought beaver would be used for fish sauce.  

[Chris P.]

There's a great tv show for such things in Holland. In it they investigate all kinds of those things and there was also an episode about vanilla flavour. In short this is the outcome:

- In Belgium it has to be called 'yoghurt with vanilla flavour' while in Holland it can be called 'vanilla yoghurt'
- The yellow colour is mostly from carrots. Carothene.
- The taste is made using paper or parts of pine trees.

A bit les disgusting.

They always put question marks on things (dolphin friendly fish, wood chips for barbecues which are made from 60 year old whisky barrels: They call the company and ask about which whiskeys and why your meat would taste better or different with it....)

Bertolli is a brand of 'Italian' products for pastas, pizzas, ... The claim it's made in Italy by old Italian people with old Italian recipes. The factory is in Spain and runned by just one young guy controlling all the machines.

Same with 'stone oven pizzas' you can buy in supermarkets, Norwegian knitted stuff from China, ..

This program is really fun and won a lot of international prizes.

[Chris P.]

BTW: the wine glasses, which were made by hand or actually by mouth were really blowed by mouth.

[Chris P.]

Some cornflakes from brands like Kellogs supposed to contain ferro/iron. They tested it. And it really contains little parts of iron fillings. They were extracted with a magnet. And no: A humon body can't use that;)

[amptech]

Same with 'stone oven pizzas' you can buy in supermarkets, Norwegian knitted stuff from China, ..

True... I always assumed knitting would keep my country breathing when we run out of oil and salomon.
I'm glad my wife knows how to knit, it would take me two months of work to buy a pair of knitted socks, unless they are from China.

[TBird1958]

Yummy, vanilla Beaver 

[gweimer]

And, since we're on the topic of disgusting things we ingest...

http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20588763,00.html

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Thankfully, that stuff is reserved for foodies who want "natural" artificial vanilla flavoring. I have better things to do than perform analingus on a beaver to make banana pudding.

[Dave W]

And, since we're on the topic of disgusting things we ingest...

http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20588763,00.html

I don't see anything disgusting about many of those. Shellac, gelatin, cellulose and carrageenan for example. And why are water injections disgusting? I try to avoid them, but they're only there to add flavor that has been taken away by boneless low-fat meats. The entries that really are disgusting (like pink slime) are easy enough to avoid.

I think margarine is pretty disgusting. And does anybody else here remember mellorine? Yuck!

[luve2fli]

My question is ..... who the hell decided to actually put "castoreum" in their mouths 80 years ago to determine if it was palatable?

[Psycho Bass Guy]

My question is ..... who the hell decided to actually put "castoreum" in their mouths 80 years ago to determine if it was palatable?

Odds are the answer is no one. Since castoreum is derived from processing trees, it was most likely a case of 'Easter Bunny before the plastic egg.'