Know Your Ingredients game

[Rosendula]

Anyone fancy trying a new game?
My lovely daughter bought me a book called Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon for Christmas. Inside, on various pages, there are little boxes with the heading "Know Your Ingredients". It then goes on to give a list of ingredients and you have to see if you can guess what the product is, the answers being in the back of the book. I thought we could give it a try here.

What you do is find a shop-bought product (or look one up on the internet), and copy out the ingredients here. Then put the name of the product underneath in tiny font so that people don't see it until they're ready to zoom in. Here's one to start us off...

Chicken (Mechanically recovered) (55%), Water, Pork Fat, Pork Collagen, Salt, Wheat Flour, Chicken Fat, Thickeners (E412, E451), Beef Collagen, Herbs, Spices (contains celery), Flavouring, Natural Smoke Flavour, Preservative (E250).

Answer:

Ye Olde Oak Hot Dogs

[mrsflibble]

beef, Wheat Flour, Water, Sugar, Yeast, Sesame Seeds, Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed), Salt, Wheat Fibre, Soya Flour, Emulsifiers (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Mono- and Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate), Palm Oil, Preservative (Calcium Propionate), Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid), Water, Vegetable Oil (Soya Bean Oil), Diced Gherkin, Sugar, Spirit Vinegar, Modified Maize Starch, Free Range Egg Yolk, Mustard Seed, Salt, Preservatives (Acetic Acid, Potassium Sorbate), Mustard Flour, Stabiliser (Xanthan Gum), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Natural Flavourings (contains Soya), Dried Garlic, Spice, Colour (Paprika Extract), Vegetarian Cheddar (51%), Water, Butter, Vegetarian Cheese (9%), Whey Powder, Milk Proteins, Emulsifying Salts (Trisodium Citrate, Citric Acid), Natural Cheese Flavouring, Salt, Preservative (Sorbic Acid), Colour (Natural Carotenes, Paprika Extract), Anti-caking Agent (Soya Lecithin), Cucumbers, Water, Salt, Vinegar, Dill Pickle Blends (contains Gum Arabic, Extractives of Dill and other spices, Extractives of Turmeric), Calcium Chloride, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, lettuce, onions.




big mac. eeeeeeeew.

[The Riff-Raff Element]

Eeek!

Why, I wonder, do the manufacturers feel to the need to explicitly mention the celery? Is it an alergy hazard?

[mrsflibble]

yes aparently it is hahaha!

[Milims]

[quote="Rosendula"]

Chicken (Mechanically recovered) (55%), Water, Pork Fat, Pork Collagen, Salt, Wheat Flour, Chicken Fat, Thickeners (E412, E451), Beef Collagen, Herbs, Spices (contains celery), Flavouring, Natural Smoke Flavour, Preservative (E250).

Answer:

[Millymollymandy]

Eeeew I've been put off me lunch already. Mechanically recovered chicken is such a strange term. Like maybe all the bits that dropped on the factory floor were hoovered up and shaped into a patty.... oh hang on that's probably what did happen.

OK here's one:

Corn flour (72%), vegetable oil, salt, flavouring, flavour enhancer: E621, E627, E631. Contains gluten.













Lidl's tortilla chips, Jalapeno flavoured (and sitting on my desk!)

[Milims]

Eeeew I've been put off me lunch already. Mechanically recovered chicken is such a strange term. Like maybe all the bits that dropped on the factory floor were hoovered up and shaped into a patty.... oh hang on that's probably what did happen.

OK here's one:

Corn flour (72%), vegetable oil, salt, flavouring, flavour enhancer: E621, E627, E631. Contains gluten.
Lidl's tortilla chips, Jalapeno flavoured (and sitting on my desk!)

Ha ha - I had to quote that to read the answer! lol!

Not too many ingredients - but the vegetable oil is a but of a cover up too - it usually contains quite a lot of palm oil too!

Water, flour, salt, olive oil, yeast, milk.......


cheese sarnie!

[chilitony]

Its a can of Hot Dogs which i have eatten in the past, yummy

[Marmalady]

Eeek!

Why, I wonder, do the manufacturers feel to the need to explicitly mention the celery? Is it an alergy hazard?

yes -- allergens that must be specifically mentioned on food labels include:

nuts
celery
mustard

eggs, dairy & gluten are also common allergens but cant remember if they have to listed

[mrsflibble]

sulphites too recently.

[Rosendula]

Flippin' 'eck! How about just saying "Allergy advice: contains ingredients"

[Big Al]

Eeeew I've been put off me lunch already. Mechanically recovered chicken is such a strange term. Like maybe all the bits that dropped on the factory floor were hoovered up and shaped into a patty.... oh hang on that's probably what did happen.

OK here's one:

Corn flour (72%), vegetable oil, salt, flavouring, flavour enhancer: E621, E627, E631. Contains gluten.













Lidl's tortilla chips, Jalapeno flavoured (and sitting on my desk!)

Mechanically recovered meat is obtained by hitting the carcases with a high preassure water jetter..... then scooped up off the floor.

[Big Al]

Wholewheat flour, yeast, water, salt, sugar.








Home made bread

[Millymollymandy]

Wholewheat flour, yeast, water, salt, sugar.








Home made bread

I guessed that one! How did you manage to do such a small font? The choice above of Tiny is still readable but you found a smaller one!

[Rosendula]

I wondered that but I think I've worked it out. You know when you click on the 'tiny' font, it brings your text up with [size =50][/size] around it. Just change the number