annoyed by made-up ingredients
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annoyed by made-up ingredients
Has anybody seen the commercials for Danactive products? Everytime I see them I'm annoyed at how they make up names for the cultures in the product based on it's "supposed" health benefits.
The commercial that promotes their product that improves your digestive system contains a culture called "bifidus regularis"
The one for your immune system is called "l casei immunitas"
Is it really necessary to trump up a product's benefits with stupid, made up ingredients?
If I'm wrong let me know.
The commercial that promotes their product that improves your digestive system contains a culture called "bifidus regularis"
The one for your immune system is called "l casei immunitas"
Is it really necessary to trump up a product's benefits with stupid, made up ingredients?
If I'm wrong let me know.
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Because "Contains Live Cultures" or "Contains Active Cultures" just aren't trendy enough.
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http://www.bifidusdigestivum.com/
just sounds better than "Bifidobacterium animalis DN 173 010"
just sounds better than "Bifidobacterium animalis DN 173 010"
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Definitely the lifestyle and wellness stream has been caught up by marketing managers of food selling companies. The term "function food" has been created, as if food had not a function before.
I find the advertising also really boring and ridiculous. When I see it I always ask my wife: Did you already have your "activis, regularis, defensis" culture today?
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I find the advertising also really boring and ridiculous. When I see it I always ask my wife: Did you already have your "activis, regularis, defensis" culture today?
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If you had ANY idea how many POO bugs that are allowed into the foods we eat…..you would give up eating….Lambchop wrote:I think they call them nice names like that because otherwise they would have to just flat out tell you that they're putting poo bugs in your yogurt.
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I once read on a PeTA website (which I don't necessarily believe, because, I mean, it's PeTA, after all) that there is a small percentage of field mice ground up in Cheerios cereal because of harvesting methods which use machines and are inexact.drruthless wrote:If you had ANY idea how many POO bugs that are allowed into the foods we eat…..you would give up eating….Lambchop wrote:I think they call them nice names like that because otherwise they would have to just flat out tell you that they're putting poo bugs in your yogurt.
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I don't believe this. I tried them on my cat just now. Not interested.Cranberry wrote: there is a small percentage of field mice ground up in Cheerios cereal because of harvesting methods which use machines and are inexact.
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If there is a tolerance at General Mills for mouse parts in Cheerios, they will have a written specification for it. I know at many companies (but I'm not saying this is necessarily so at GM) there are tolerances for bug parts in things like wheat because totally bug free would be impossible. Rodent parts are less tolerable generally and I'm sure the tolerance is extremely low if they have one, not so much because of any risks, which would be eliminated in processing, but because if the public found out they ALLOWED mouse parts the backlash would be huge.Cranberry wrote:I once read on a PeTA website (which I don't necessarily believe, because, I mean, it's PeTA, after all) that there is a small percentage of field mice ground up in Cheerios cereal because of harvesting methods which use machines and are inexact.
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Rumour has it that the old-style cider makers used to toss a couple of dead rats into the fermenting vats to add a bit of character to the flavour.
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I don't know how reputable this website is, but it seems reasonable -- How Many Insect Parts and Rodent Hairs are Allowed in Your Food?
And from the FDA -- The Food Defect Action Levels -- so you can look up your favorite comestible.
And from the FDA -- The Food Defect Action Levels -- so you can look up your favorite comestible.
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