WASHINGTON: Thanksgiving additives a real mouthful; Do you know what was pumped in your turkey before you stuffed it? - (MarketWatch)
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WASHINGTON — This Thanksgiving millions of Americans will give thanks for… sodium phosphates? How about being grateful for modified food starch, monosodium glutamate, butylated hydroxyanisol and butylated hydroxytoluene?
All of these additives and more can be found in your traditional Thanksgiving meal. Preservatives, “flavor enhancers” and emulsifiers have infiltrated holiday tables across the country, and are likely here to stay.
Butterball LLC, which sells about 12 million whole turkeys for Thanksgiving, injects its frozen whole turkeys with a solution to “keep the turkey moist and help prevent it from drying out during cooking, and for flavor,” according to the company. Additives include salt, natural flavors, modified food starch and sodium phosphates.
Poultry products that are sold as basted or self-basted are injected or marinated with a solution containing butter or other edible fat, broth, stock, flavor enhancers and other approved substances, according to the Department of Agriculture.
“Some turkeys have value added in them,” […]
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