Comments on: Beyond Meat™: Veggie Chicken Strips from a Cumberland, Maryland Company http://www.vrg.org/blog/2012/06/04/beyond-meat%e2%84%a2-veggie-chicken-strips-from-a-cumberland-maryland-company/ The Vegetarian Resource Group Blog Wed, 01 May 2013 17:20:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: calscot http://www.vrg.org/blog/2012/06/04/beyond-meat%e2%84%a2-veggie-chicken-strips-from-a-cumberland-maryland-company/comment-page-1/#comment-61187 calscot Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:59:08 +0000 http://www.vrg.org/blog/?p=3444#comment-61187 Natural flavouring: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/4676616/ns/today-food/t/food-qa-just-what-natural-flavoring/#.UDJCQt1mQ1A The definition of natural flavor under the Code of Federal Regulations is: “the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional” (21CFR101.22). Natural flavouring:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/4676616/ns/today-food/t/food-qa-just-what-natural-flavoring/#.UDJCQt1mQ1A

The definition of natural flavor under the Code of Federal Regulations is: “the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional” (21CFR101.22).

]]> By: M. King http://www.vrg.org/blog/2012/06/04/beyond-meat%e2%84%a2-veggie-chicken-strips-from-a-cumberland-maryland-company/comment-page-1/#comment-59092 M. King Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:39:38 +0000 http://www.vrg.org/blog/?p=3444#comment-59092 Maltodextrin is synthesized from corn or wheat starch. Wheat is probably not GMO, but it is a gluten containing starch. However, corn, which is 90% GMO in the U.S. is used the majority of the time. It cannot be certified GMO free, or organic, if it contains maltodextrin. As an ingredient it is totally non-essential. Rice starch would be preferable as it can easily be gotten in the U.S. without GMO. I recently did a lot of research and telephoning on maltodextrin as a lot of companies are adding it to their products. If it is only being added for sweetness, organic sugar would be preferable. I don't know why it is being stuffed into so many products, but I will not buy anything with maltodextrin in it. Maltodextrin is synthesized from corn or wheat starch. Wheat is probably not GMO, but it is a gluten containing starch. However, corn, which is 90% GMO in the U.S. is used the majority of the time. It cannot be certified GMO free, or organic, if it contains maltodextrin. As an ingredient it is totally non-essential. Rice starch would be preferable as it can easily be gotten in the U.S. without GMO. I recently did a lot of research and telephoning on maltodextrin as a lot of companies are adding it to their products. If it is only being added for sweetness, organic sugar would be preferable. I don’t know why it is being stuffed into so many products, but I will not buy anything with maltodextrin in it.

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