How low on avocado do you need to be to not be allowed to say that it’s guac? 3.5% will certainly do it.
Is this like the whole wasabi thing where cheapskates use horseradish instead?
I saw “tortilla chips with avocado”, it had %0.04 dried avocado powder in it. So lower than that?
I mean I drink oatmilk, and I think it’d be perfectly reasonable to say “milk-inspired drink,” but yeah… looking at the ingredients I’d stick to guac or plain avocados, unless cash is real tight.
This got me curious so I looked up the nutrition page on Tesco’s website… The two main ingredients are water and tomatoes lol
INGREDIENTS: Water, Tomato, Rapeseed Oil, Onion, Modified Maize Starch, Avocado (3.5%), Soured Cream (Milk) (3%), Lime Juice from Concentrate, Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Whey Powder (Milk), Sugar, Garlic Purée, Jalapeño Chilli (1%), Coriander Leaf, Dried Egg Yolk, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Salt, Colours (Lutein, Copper Complexes of Chlorophyllins), Stabilisers (Xanthan Gum), Dried Red Pepper, Glucose Syrup, Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid).
at least they’re up front about their bullshit. unlike “american cheese” that has “pasteurized processed cheese product” in fine print. or “ice cream” with “frozen dairy product” in fine print. when i worked at starbucks we had to call it a “chocolatey chip” frappuccino instead of “chocolate chip,” because the ingredients didn’t fit the legal definition of chocolate
i’m also impressed they called it “rapeseed oil” instead of canola oil. though maybe there are new rules about that
edit: ok, “canola oil” is a stupid americas thing–i withdraw my impressedness
Honestly not sure why people get so upset about American cheese. It’s just cheese with an emulsifier in it that softens it. Best burger cheese by far.
Best burger cheese by far.
How can you possibly say such nonsense when swiss and muenster both exist
Then you need to try a few different brands of American cheese to find out that the most affordable options often use so much vegetable oil that it basically tastes like oil with some whey powder in it.
Yes there are good quality American cheese offerings, Land o Lakes and Boars Head both have an actual cultured American cheese.
But nearly all of the non-premium brands are frankly unpleasant.
You clearly haven’t had a burger with a good quality bun & patty grilled to medium rare with layers of cheddar, Colby, pepper jack and Swiss melted on top
It’s less the emulsifier softens it, more it allows water to the added. Cheese is largely fat/oil which doesn’t mix easily with water.
The emulsifier allows you to melt and cast left over cheese, and add water to increase it’s volume. Its original invention was to make use of scrap cuts of cheese.
In Swiss, Milk alternatives like oat milk, aren’t allowed to contain “milk” in the name, because they’re not milk.
Honestly, I think thats just nonsense.
Everyone is very much aware that Oat Milk and Soy Milk and all the other non-dairy milks don’t have any cow juice in them
Just the name itself makes it clear.
It’s as equally stupid, in my opinion, as the argument that we shouldn’t call a vegetarian or vegan burger a “burger” because people might think it has meat when it doesn’t.
It’s all a play by the dairy and meat industries to make vegan alternatives sound unappetising, and it’s very transparent.
Canola is a North American thing. AFAIK the British are familiar with the term “rapeseed” and don’t need the rebranding.
Hasn’t it always been called rapeseed in the UK?
As I understand it, canola oil as a term is used predominantly only in the US and Canada, with canola itself being a portmanteau of Can -adian and Oil
CANadian Oil, Low Acidity
Edit: apparently that’s a myth? It’s ola as in oil
"american cheese” that has “pasteurized processed cheese product” in fine print. or “ice cream” with “frozen dairy product” in fine print
Maybe this is just because I live in Wisconsin where the dairy and alcohol lobbies are both extremely strong, but most not-icecream is labeled as a “frozen desert” and those terrible plastic Impersonations of cheese also aren’t labeled as cheese at all.
Granted the graphic design does a ton of the heavy lifting. On the “frozen desert” it shows a scoop of ice cream in decidedly ice cream like packaging and says the flavor really huge, then in much smaller print below that “frozen desert” and I think Kraft Singles just shows a picture of cheese and the branding without actually specifying what the product is
Sugar is not nearly high enough on that ingredient list to be ketchup, but it’d be nice if it wasn’t there at all. I mean it already has cornstarch. And why they include a miniscule amount of glucose syrup on top of their sugar is beyond me. Must be because it’s in the ingredients of some other processed food that they’re using to make this one.
Homeopathic guac.
