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Article: 'Contains glutamate:' disturbing ramifications for constituent labeling.
- Article from:
- Food Processing
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
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Imagine that one of the natural foods in a product--let's say an apple--required parenthetical or constituent labeling. The ingredient statement listing for the apple alone could end up looking like this: Apple (contains water, fructose, glucose, malic acid, citric acid, ascorbic acid, glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, isoleucine, serine, threonine, cysteine, methionine, arginine, lysine, glutamic acid, glutamine, aspartic acid, asparagine, histidine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, tyrosine, proline, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chlorides, sulfates, xanthrophylls (coloring), anthocyanins (coloring), etc., etc., etc.).
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