Guaranteed mold-free with plenty of vegetable color
May 12th, 2008 by Cliff Bostock in Food & Life
One of the suggestions for sensible eating in Michael Pollan’s new book, In Defense of Food, is avoiding anything with ingredients you’ve never heard of.
While I was shopping at Publix a few days ago, I noticed this label on one of its pre-made salads. It includes everything from mold inhibitors and sodium nitrite to corn syrup and “vegetable color.” The potato salad label was even lengthier.
Meanwhile, the store was out of Fuji apples, the dried cherries I eat in my oatmeal every morning and the brown sugar I also put in my oatmeal. The store manager explained to me that there’s a “sugar shortage” because a processing plant burned down somewhere. Who knew?
May 12th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
But it has bacon, so all is well.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Which Publix was it? They can really vary on stock from store to store.
May 14th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Actually, the sugar plant explosion in February in Port Wentworth, just north of Savannah, was pretty heavily covered here, since it was in.. Georgia. :-)