Fake food

[robertk]

Yesterday my wife had a craving for nachos. OK, I can do that. We had some pulled pork that we froze a while back that would be nice, and we already had some lettuce and tomato (yes, those go on nachos). But we didn't have any chips or cheese sauce, so we stopped by the grocery store to get some. We picked up some corn tortilla chips (ingredients: Corn, vegetable oil, and salt), and some nacho cheese sauce. This one, to be exact (front and back of jar):




I didn't think to check the ingredients until we got home. They're readable on the back of the jar photo above, or here's the exact same information from Wal-Mart's website:

Notice anything strange? I mean even aside from all those odd additives and chemicals? There's no cheese! The front of the bottle says it's a "nacho cheese dip", so you would assume the primary ingredient would be some kind of cheese, right? Nope, not a primary ingredient, not a secondary, not even and ingredient at all.

Needless to say I was appalled so decided to see if I could make my own cheese sauce, and I did so. So I made two plates of nachos, one with the store bought sauce, and one with my home-made sauce (ingredients, in order most to least: cheddar cheese, milk, whole wheat flour, butter, and cayenne pepper). My wife ate the store bought and thought it was great. I couldn't even bring myself to taste it, after having read the ingredients and smelled it while it was heating up (it did not smell like food to me). I ate the home made and thought it was delicious, even though I made the sauce too thick.

What's the point of this rant? That even though the label says its cheese doesn't mean it is. It's fake food. Just a bunch of industrially processed oils, gums, and flavorings made to look like cheese.

No wonder people are fat and sick. Look what they're eating.

And it's not just this stuff. This is but one example of many. Read the labels, folks.

 

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[pepperj]

I had to slit this 1 minute long video about this ingredient in fake cheese.

 

[robertk]

Oh I hate the GRAS list. What a crock. I've read that in the USA there are over 10,000 additives and chemicals on the GRAS list, but in the EU, there are only about 400. IMO, if something is in the food, it needs to be on the label, GRAS or not.

Here's some more cheese "food for thought". In the photo below are two slices of cheese. This photo was taken just now, of two pieces of cheese from my refrigerator. Both are supposedly the same thing -- American Cheese. The one on the left is a slice of "Great Value" brand American Cheese. (Not "Cheese Food" or "Cheese Substitute" or any other known fake cheese, but actual American Cheese".). On the right is a slice of "Organic Valley" brand American cheese made from milk from grass-fed cows. I'm sure the FDA would tell you they're both "substantially equivalent" and therefore the same thing -- American Cheese. And I supposed on some level they are. But I can also tell you which one I'd rather have on my cheeseburger.