Fish Oil In Your Pasta?

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The Guardian has a short and sweet report on the trend of adding Omega 3 oils to food like Heize spaghetti hoops and Muller yoghurt. Omega 3 is widely believed to be 'brain food' for kids but, sadly, poorly proven to have any such positive impact. Clearly companies like Heize and Muller are adding it to their products to boost sales in a 'me-too' fashion but when these relatively plain foods have been seen as a safe haven for veggies, shouldn't they but putting a bigger warning on the label?

One thing is for sure, they wouldn't be so quiet about adding nuts to a previous nut-free product, given the seriousness with which nut allergies are treated these days.

So, for all your veggies reading this, remember to check the ingredients for fish oil in even the most innocent looking things. Has anyone else spotted any veggie danger foods?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1931504,0... 

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1. Re: Fish Oil In Your Pasta? by jack, 1238 days ago

   Hi Duncan,
   Well spotted, these sort of things are just to common, i followed a lead from that page concerning the food safety agency, supposedly a reformed ministery of agriculture. they are up to their old tricks. trying to make out that there is no difference in nutritional content between organic and chemical farming, i suppose it pays to serve the status qou, they must flash a load of cash about. Can you cast your mind back a few years, there was a scare about Acrylamides, thought to be formed from sugar in cooked food, it seems to have been buried, like so much else, and the Benzadrine in fruit drinks with vitamin C scare only recently, it would be interesting to see a list of those in the past ten years.

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   1. Re: Re: Fish Oil In Your Pasta? by duncan, 1237 days ago

      Hi Jack,
      
      You're right, we've had these sorts of things before, I'm just alarmed at the way standard, plain foods have been co-opted with these fish oils as I know from experience how vegetarians have their 'safe options' that they buy on a regular basis.
      
      I've also been on the mailing list for the Anaphylaxis campaign as the volume of alerts that they send out regarding food with diary and nuts that aren't listed on the ingredients (by mistake, more often than not), and that's make me quite cautious too.
      
      I guess it's another good reason for growing your own food :)

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2. Re: Fish Oil In Your Pasta? by jane, 1238 days ago

   Three other products that I've come across fortified with Omega 3 are milk, bread and orange juice. I haven't looked at them closely enough to see whether they are from a fish or seed origin - I hadn't really thought about it, but this will definitely make me think (and look) as I'm a strict veggie. Thankfully I tend not to buy things that are "fortified" with "nutrients" that aren't naturally found in the food (except breakfast cereals)
   
   And another one I've just thought of - Flora and other spreads

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