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A federal judge handling a lawsuit filed in California over ‘all-natural’ claims on Mission tortilla chips has...
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Big interview: Steve Hughes, CEO, Boulder Brands
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Read the full May 14 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report ‘Sodium intake in populations’
-all 200 pages...
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Recent data from Symphony Consulting (click here
), shows that while US retail sales of products making ‘natural’...
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stop demonizing processed foods and to focus on sodium instead
Processed food is a final product that requires numbers of chemical processes, and/or synthetic additives, color, preservatives, synthetic vitamins, and flavor enhancers.
In processed food salt is used to increase product flavor profile, or mask some unpleasant flavor or it is used as preservative.
Pasteurization, drying, freezing, freshness enhancer processes (application of natural oil, or gas) are under different category of processes food methods = natural processes.
The final processed product such as twinckies requires more than just adding a salt, or sugar, or wheat. It is requires a chem. lab to assist in twinckies production.
Unbleached, unrefined salt that added during the cooking, fermenting, or dough conditioning is safe for consumption. But bleached and processed salt that added to processes food to mask or increased some flavor
Posted by Ink
24 March 2012 | 04h51