Emulsifier Polysorbate 80 Tween 80 Sorbitan monooleate FDA, View Tween 80, HUANA Product Details from Guangzhou Runhua Food Additive Co., Ltd. on Alibaba. |
I've started checking ingredient labels, looking for the evil polysorbate 80. I heated up a frozen Red Baron Pepperoni Pizza for lunch and there was ingredient list was printed on the side, but it may as well have been a written in hieroglyphics. I wasn't going to try and puzzle it out, so I pulled one off of their website. It's fairly horrendous, but it doesn't appear to contain any of the dreaded emulsifiers and certainly no polysorbate 80. I reformatted so I could see what I was getting. There are only six main ingredients:
- ENRICHED FLOUR
- TOMATOES
- LOW MOISTURE PART SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE
- PEPPERONI MADE WITH PORK, CHICKEN AND BEEF
- WATER,
- CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF:
That last one could be bit scary, I mean, who knows what you could hide in there.
But if you expand each of these you get a list that may as well be a mile long:- ENRICHED FLOUR
- WHEAT FLOUR,
- MALTED BARLEY FLOUR,
- NIACIN,
- REDUCED IRON,
- THIAMINE MONONITRATE,
- RIBOFLAVIN,
- FOLIC ACID
- TOMATOES
- WATER,
- TOMATO PASTE
- LOW MOISTURE PART SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE
- CULTURED PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK,
- SALT,
- ENZYMES
- PEPPERONI MADE WITH PORK, CHICKEN AND BEEF
- PORK,
- MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN,
- BEEF,
- SALT,
- CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF:
- WATER,
- DEXTROSE,
- SPICES,
- SMOKE FLAVORING,
- LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE,
- SODIUM ASCORBATE,
- FLAVORING,
- GARLIC POWDER,
- SODIUM NITRITE,
- BHA,
- BHT,
- CITRIC ACID,
- CONTAINS ONE OR MORE OF:
- PAPRIKA,
- OLEORESIN OF PAPRIKA
- WATER,
- CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF:
- YEAST,
- VEGETABLE SHORTENING
- PALM OIL,
- NATURAL FLAVOR,
- SOY LECITHIN
- SUGAR,
- VEGETABLE OIL
- SOYBEAN,
- COTTONSEED,
- CORN, AND/OR
- CANOLA OIL
- SALT,
- MODIFIED FOOD STARCH,
- SPICE,
- MALTODEXTRIN,
- GARLIC,
- VEGETABLE PROTEIN
- HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN,
- HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN,
- PAPRIKA,
- ONION,
- GARLIC POWDER,
- DOUGH CONDITIONER
- WHEAT STARCH,
- L-CYSTEINE HYDROCHLORIDE,
- AMMONIUM SULFATE
- ASCORBIC ACID,
- ENZYMES CONTAINS
- WHEAT
I ate the pizza before I wrote this. I was hungry.
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