European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga 18 the stars and stripes tuesday. May 6, 19b6 questionable food additives today s Cross won Why does our government allow foods that have artificial ingredients end flavors things Tike artificial blueberries can t manufacturer use to right toot and flavourings even it they have to charge a bit More Olga Burr Dunedin Fla Many manufacturers Are complying with Consumers demands or fewer artificial ingredients such As colors flavourings and preservatives bul Many still abound and probably always Wittl. Today writes Phyllis Lehmann in Fra consumer some 2,000 substances Are intentionally added to foods to produce a desired Many of these additives Are beneficial. They help maintain or improve the nutritional value of a product such As Vitamin 0 in milk or iodine in Salt. Some additives maintain the freshness of a product like ascorbic acid which keeps fruit from Browning or. Emu Sillers which keep Mayonnaise from separating yet. While Many additives Are harmless quite a Tew ate questionable particularly those additives designed to make food More appealing such As colouring agents synthetic flavors. Mag and sweeteners. One example is Strawberry tee Cream which can. Either be made with real strawberries which Are. Expensive or a chemical Havering concocted in a. Laboratory. And because Consumers associate strawberries with a Reddish color some of the ice Cream is tinted Pink. Bul the government through the efforts of the food end drug administration has no Power 1o limit the number of additives approved or to judge whether a particular food color thickener or sweetener is Seliy needed says Lehmann. What the Fra does and it s an arduous task is regulate these ingredients mainly on the basis of safety to see to it that the additive will accomplish the intended effect in the food and ascertain that the amount is no higher than what is necessary to accomplish the effect. The Fra also has established standards to identify Many food products. In other words a manufacturer can t just package something and Label ii As Margarine unless it meets a certain Standard of identity. There Are 350 different types of foods that have to meet these standards. But the government can regulate just so much. Ultimately it s up to the consumer to decide whether or not he wants artificial blueberries in muffins or imitation cheese on a Frozen pizza. Read the Label and make a Choice. On the Label of Mccornick s Vanilla in Aye pure Vanilla extract and then it Tayt it contains 35percent alcohol plut Corn syrup. That could t be right How can you know when it s pure Vanilla Lynn Stephens Farwell Mich because of their nature says Poliy Murray manager of consumer services at Mccormick & co different Flavouring extracts such As Vanilla extract or Lemon extract require certain percentages of alcohol in their mixtures. Pure Vanilla extract contains 35 percent alcohol and pure Lemon extract contains 84 percent alcohol. Pura in he sense of Flavouring extracts does not mean hat the product is 100 percent Vanilla but rather that the Vanilla comes from the Vanilla bean end the Lemon comes irom the Lemon. If the source 61 the Flavouring comes from anything else it must be identified As imitation. According to the Fra s Standard of identity for pure Vanilla extract the fallowing ingredients May also be. Included in the mixture Glycerine propylene glycol sugar invert sugar dextrose and Corn syrup Murray claims the addition of Corn syrup to their product makes the liquid although i Don t know Why this should be necessary. In the food Industry the word pure Ilka tha words natural and organic often require complicated and confusing interpretations. I bought a Small Jer of Spaghetti fallen which was vacuum sealed. For is minute i mod opening the Jar running it under hot water prying ii with knife banging the top Down on the counter. I worked at it with such passion t twisted a muscle in my neck. No Man around to help. I finally had to give up Ami eat something else. Have you a secret formula for opening these jars Linda Gay of Campbell soup co s consumer department reminds us that the vacuum Seal the required by the department of agriculture and is designed to maintain product wholesomeness and to deter product tampering. She did t offer any secret formula however Tor opening their jars. The Basic idea is to get a Little air info the Jar so you can atop the vacuum action but i agree that this can be difficult because 01 the Way some jars Are constructed. I be sometimes used a screwdriver any readers with methods of opening stubborn jars. Please pass them along. Pleate Tell to How to rid my carpeted Clotet of totter with. I to Torwall made of bedding in thie closet a Well at old quilts and photograph albums. Leora Swensen Seguin Texas Silverfish bugs that can t even swim but have been named for their appearance Chew ragged holes in paper eat cereals dead insects Linen Cotton silk and the paste and glue used in bookbinding. They hide and Lay heir eggs in Wall cracks and behind. Baseboards. They will do a number on photo albums. You will have to empty out the closet air out the quills and go through the albums to rid them of any bugs Bernice Leflon advises in Bug busters to get some technical boric acid Roach Prula and blow the powder into baseboard crevices and cracks with a bulb duster. Sprinkle the stuff All Over tha floor you can also devise a trap. Take a Small Glass Jar and cover the outside with masking tape so the Silver Tosh can climb up the Side of the Jar. They re then supposed to fall to the Jar but won t be Able to climb out because it s too Slippery. Put the trap in a Corner of the closet. It Wilt be several weeks before the situation is under control. When you eat raw Oytt Ert Are you eating them alive yes. Robert Robinson in the essential Book of shellfish writes it s been said that the bravest Man in the world was the first Man who ate an Oyster. More Likely he was one of the the oysters Are eventually killed by your stomach acids. Id Itti. King plur a Malcoln inc. 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