Posted on 02/20/2016 7:31:05 PM PST by Lera
The FDA is cracking down on companies that are lying about selling 100% Parmesan cheese
The FDA is warning pasta and pizza lovers that cheese labeled “100 percent Parmesan†are often filled with cheese substitutes—like wood pulp.
Yes, you’ve been eating wood, thanks to companies like Castle Cheese, which produced Parmesan cheese containing no actual Parmesan for almost 30 years. The president of the company, which supplied megastores like Target, is scheduled to plead guilty this month to charges that carry a sentence of up to a year in prison and a $100,o00 fine, according to Bloomberg.
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The restaurants where the guy comes by with a cheese grater have the right idea. You can’t fake that.
Must be why I can’t stand parmesan that is already grated.
It tastes like baby vomit.
“Paper is wood pulp. Its a fiber after the pulp is cooked down, which looks like oatmeal..and that is exactly what they call it at the mills.”
I had training as a rare book conservator. I had to make make paper in a conservation lab in grad school. We had a small hammer mill to pulverize the wood or fiber and then, after bleaching we’d insert a framed screen into the vat of pulp to make a hand laid sheet.
Kind of fun but a messy process
I want to know what the FDA has been doing FOR 30 YEARS ??
Not a single test in 30 years ?
Let’s revoke all the pensions from these incompetent FDA managers and staffers.
I’m trying to remember, but I think a year or so ago I bought some “Parmesan cheese” at Target or some discount grocery. Funniest stuff I ever tasted. The label’s list of ingredients included “cellulose powder to prevent caking” (same as on the Kraft Parmesan in the green can) but boy, did this stuff taste funny, and it had a powdery consistency which was really weird. Never bought it again.
If you want real Parmesan, you’ll have to spend $15-27/lb. at the neighborhood cheese shop, get a slice from the big wheel (guaranteed imported from Italy) and grate it yourself.
If you’re fussy about your cheese, that is.
I will pay folding money for good cheese. :)
No.
Tree and rice.
I prefer freshly grated Peccorino Romano. If it was good enough for the Roman legions, it’s god enough for me.
CC
Been eating wood all this time, awesome/sarc
We get our grated cheese from Trader Joes, Mozzarella didnt think it contained this ingredient, looked at the back of the package and there it is..cellulose..will just get a block of cheese and grate it ourselves from now on, cheaper and healthier
ROFL
That is it in a nut shell.
They chip the roundwood, it goes in the digester, it gets cooked and broken down into pulp, then it is bleached, then it gets spread onto the mill felt and after enough water drains out and it can support itself as a sheet it goes through the paper machine which is a gang of steam heated rollers. It ends up at the tail end, then the roll goes to be coated to make it glossy. Some cut it before the rewinders before they coat it and some do it before.
This is for publishing paper.
Ohh...thanks for the tip. I’ll see if I can find it in the DFW area. I’m planning a trip to Italy next year, wonder if I can bring a wheel of it back with me? :)
Parmesan cheese smells like baby puke.
Yes, it really does!
Still good on Pizza and spaghetti as long as you don’t think about what it smells like!
Long ago I thought about opening a business making 100% cotton fiber hand laid sheets for artist and specialty printing. You can make wonderful paper out of discarded blue jeans.
Much ado about nothing new. It prevents grated or shredded cheese from clumping back into a solid chunk of cheese by keeping the shreds separate. Eat it or don’t eat it. I worry more about hormones, excessive antibiotics, and residual pesticides. By the way, artificial vanilla extract is made from wood, too.
After getting shafted on a TV by Target “closing them out” I don’t trust much from there, anymore.
Ya, our currency is made out of bluejeans.
Most toothpaste also.
Yes we get large chunks of it at Costco.
hey, as long as it tastes good...
WOOD PULP AS FIBER IN BREAD
THE source of fiber in a number of high-fiber breads is nonnutritional wood pulp, according to a Washington-based consumer group. The group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, listed nine such breads on the market: Less; Roman Lite; Lite Loaf; Lite'n Up; Merita Lite; Tasty Lite; Sunbeam Lite; Vim, and 40.
Yum!
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