Packaging

[supergee]

“100% cheese” doesn’t have to be 100% cheese

Thanx to andrewducker

Comments

[arlie]

*sigh* The judge is full of bovine byproducts. Cheese that's whole - in its wax - keeps just fine outside of a fridge. D'oh. Given the educational standards and commercial obfuscation in this country, I wouldn't expect a consumer to know that - any more than the judge and/or journalist did, given the phrasing in the article. But I also wouldn't expect them to know that additives make grated cheese less likely to spoil; having encountered ultra-pasteurization, my best guess when faced with grated cheese outside the cooler section would be ultrapasturization, not the addition of cellulose. (FWIW, even given the article, I still don't believe that adding cellulose acts as a preservative. Anti-caking sounds plausible though.)

OTOH, I thought misleading product names were 100% legal in the US of A. Whether it's an alternate spelling of "chicken" that "obviously" excuses the product from containing meat, or a new name for an old fish, presumably designed to avoid existing (and perhaps well founded) prejudice against it, I read all the ingredient lists, and hope that nothing I care about was quite legally left out of those lists. My housemate wound up vomitting when she failed to check a "juice"s ingredients - she's intolerant of rape seed (canola), and the so-called juice contained canola oil. We both reject a lot of foods for "vegetable oil", "spices," and "a and/or b and/or c and/or d". And eating out is somewhat of a nightmare - just how much sugar is in a seemingly savoury dish (stew, perhaps), and is it enough to upset my pre-diabetic body? Is there canola oil in that stew? Etc.