I am writing about Fat Free cheese.
What's in it? Primarily cheese, one would think, but no. It contains over 15 different ingredients, half of which are starches of some form. Two notable ingredients, which are not included in regular cheese, are sodium citrate and modified corn starch. These ingredients must do something to the cheese to make the texture equivalent to chewing on tires. Actually, after tonights casserole, I'd prefer nibbling on tires to the alkaline aftertaste this crap leaves behind. It doesn't go away either, it settles in the recesses of the mouth, only to resurface every few minutes reminding you of what you shouldn't have eaten. Its like a culinary Montezuma's Revenge, packaged and pristine on the grocery isle shelf.
Does diet food have to taste so bad?
Yuck! Even though this topic now disgusts me quite a bit- it does so because of the way you described it! I enjoyed reading this and visualizing what it would be like to chew on tires! hahaha. You really never know what manufacturers put in products, and honestly, how often do we actually look at the labels and read the ingredients?? Hmm. maybe now I will start...
ReplyDeleteI have the misfortune of having a brother-in-law who obsessively reads nutrition labels and spells out everything bad. Be careful, the habit of reading nutrition labels is both addicting and (very) depressing.
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