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Exclusive: Nestle to cut sugar and salt in breakfast cereals
Yahoo! News ^ | October 15, 2012 | Emma Thomasson (Reuters)

Posted on 10/15/2012 11:59:29 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What percent less customers?


41 posted on 10/15/2012 1:57:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: Madame Dufarge

Kids love Cheerios.

From the first ones tossed onto their high chair tray, to being a fairly neat automobile trip snack,to big bowls before school.

I couldn’t have managed with out them.

(Off topic,but try to catch the film “Argo”)

:-)

.


42 posted on 10/15/2012 2:22:24 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

And to think of the layer of sugar that was at the bottom of my creal bowl when I was a kid..... had to be 1/4” at least.


43 posted on 10/15/2012 3:11:31 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

I stand corrected.


44 posted on 10/15/2012 4:32:42 PM PDT by Obadiah (The corrupt MSM is the enemy of the American people.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"...will cut sugar and salt in the children's breakfast cereals they jointly market outside North America"

Wait until Ms. kenyan hears about this.

The Kenyan must go.

45 posted on 10/15/2012 6:47:47 PM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: MichaelCorleone
"...global obesity epidemic..."

THAT is flippin' hilarious.

The Kenyan must go.

46 posted on 10/15/2012 6:49:13 PM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Even more ironic is that a lot of milk today is reconstituted from dehydrated, with fat added for flavor and blue dye for whiteness. Blecch.

Excuse me, may I ask where you heard such nonsense?

47 posted on 10/15/2012 6:54:50 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Fate plays chess and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Read an article somewhat recently explaining this possibility,

extruded breakfast cereals can now have the sugar/salt added to just the exterior of the flake/piece/etc, instead of being sugar/salt throughout the entire flake/piece/etc. Revolutionary stuff, because the taste profile is barely affected, and unlike prior attempts to make low sugar/low salt cereals, this stuff keeps it’s crunchyness in milk for the same time length as the old formula.


48 posted on 10/15/2012 7:24:57 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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Found the article:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Can-Technology-Save-Breakfast.html

Can Technology Save Breakfast?
Cereal companies, maligned for overprocessing, are now using the same techniques to put some nature back in the bowl
By Corby Kummer
Smithsonian magazine, June 2012,


49 posted on 10/15/2012 7:26:50 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: Mears
So there's at least some utility to Cheerios...:-)

Will try to catch Argo, sounds like it might be pretty good, thanks!

50 posted on 10/16/2012 3:39:25 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

To clarify what I said, some dairies take skim milk, “fortify” it with powdered milk, which boosts it protein level and improves its appearance, then adds butterfat to get a standard 1% or 2% milk. It does create a reconstituted taste, however, though it is only partly reconstituted.

This is accompanied by other processes, such as homogenization to break up larger fat globules, high temperature (HTST) processing, the “fortification” with either water or fat soluble vitamins. De-aeration of the milk prior to the addition of iron compounds was also found to reduce flavor problems. Calcium fortificant preparations including stabilisers and emulsifiers have been used for this purpose to maintain calcium in suspension so as to improve mouthfeel and appearance of products.

You were right about the blue dye, which was discontinued some years ago.


51 posted on 10/16/2012 10:38:30 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


52 posted on 10/16/2012 10:59:59 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
To clarify? Talk about spinning the story.

All milk that comes into the dairy facility is skimmed. The reason is that butterfat content is not consistent from cow to cow. One tanker may have 5% butterfat and another may only have 3.4%. After that is done the milk is pasteurized and homogenized to have 3.9% 2% 1% 1/2% cream and Fat Free. No dye is added as you noted.

For fat free and flavored milk, milk powder is added along with the flavor to give the milk a higher protein level and to thicken it.

You stated that "a lot of milk today is reconstituted from dehydrated" and it isn't, "with fat added for flavor" is a odd way of saying that the cream is put back in, and of course as you noted your "blue dye for whiteness." is more then a bit out of date.

You spun, you got called.

53 posted on 10/16/2012 11:04:57 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Fate plays chess and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along)
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To: albie; Publius
Let them hang themselves. Hershey will clean up.

No, that would be in violation of The Won's new anti-Dog-Eat-Dog regulations.

54 posted on 10/16/2012 11:57:05 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Okay, I’ll put you down in future as a person who is passionate about accuracy in dairy products. Good for you.


55 posted on 10/16/2012 6:17:30 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
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