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What's an example of a process done by the food industry that you would not be happy to do yourself if you could do it for free?

afandian 10y ago
Not parent commenter but these are things I wouldn't want to do to my own food, even if I could. - peroxide bleaching of flour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_bleaching_agent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_bleaching_agent - acid-enzype process for HFCS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup#Process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup#Proce... - de-oxygenation of orange juice for long term storage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_juice#Not_from_concentrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_juice#Not_from_concentr... (I'm sure these are nominally safe and possibly beneficial but I'd just rather not eat them)
- problems 10y ago
  I actually really like the deoxygenation of orange juice thing. The result tastes better than fresh squeezed, more of a sour taste that I prefer. Maybe it just amounts to dumping more citric acid in it or something, but it's delicious in any case.
  - pmoriarty 10y ago
    Store bought orange juice does not taste better because of the deoxygenation. In fact, quite the opposite. "Once the juice is squeezed and stored in gigantic vats, they start removing oxygen. Why? Because removing oxygen from the juice allows the liquid to keep for up to a year without spoiling. But! Removing that oxygen also removes the natural flavors of oranges. Yeah, it's all backwards. So in order to have OJ actually taste like oranges, drink companies hire flavor and fragrance companies, the same ones that make perfumes for Dior, to create these "flavor packs" to make juice taste like, well, juice again."[1] [1] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/100-percent-orange-juice-artificial_n_913395.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/100-percent-orange-...
    - problems 10y ago
      Well... taste is subjective, so yes, yes it does. Basically, their flavor packs taste better to me than actual orange juice, something about the acidity I think is quite appealing to me.
      - pmoriarty 10y ago
        My point was that it's the flavor packs that make it taste better, not the deoxygenation. Deoxygenation alone, without the flavor packs, make it taste worse.
      - acedinlowball 10y ago
        Your comments in this thread lead me to believe you're a retarded person.
dagw 10y ago
Anything done purely as a cost cutting measure would be a good start for a list of processes to avoid.

afandian 10y ago

Not parent commenter but these are things I wouldn't want to do to my own food, even if I could. - peroxide bleaching of flour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_bleaching_agent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_bleaching_agent - acid-enzype process for HFCS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup#Process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup#Proce... - de-oxygenation of orange juice for long term storage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_juice#Not_from_concentrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_juice#Not_from_concentr... (I'm sure these are nominally safe and possibly beneficial but I'd just rather not eat them)

problems 10y ago
I actually really like the deoxygenation of orange juice thing. The result tastes better than fresh squeezed, more of a sour taste that I prefer. Maybe it just amounts to dumping more citric acid in it or something, but it's delicious in any case.
- pmoriarty 10y ago
  Store bought orange juice does not taste better because of the deoxygenation. In fact, quite the opposite. "Once the juice is squeezed and stored in gigantic vats, they start removing oxygen. Why? Because removing oxygen from the juice allows the liquid to keep for up to a year without spoiling. But! Removing that oxygen also removes the natural flavors of oranges. Yeah, it's all backwards. So in order to have OJ actually taste like oranges, drink companies hire flavor and fragrance companies, the same ones that make perfumes for Dior, to create these "flavor packs" to make juice taste like, well, juice again."[1] [1] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/100-percent-orange-juice-artificial_n_913395.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/100-percent-orange-...
  - problems 10y ago
    Well... taste is subjective, so yes, yes it does. Basically, their flavor packs taste better to me than actual orange juice, something about the acidity I think is quite appealing to me.
    - pmoriarty 10y ago
      My point was that it's the flavor packs that make it taste better, not the deoxygenation. Deoxygenation alone, without the flavor packs, make it taste worse.
    - acedinlowball 10y ago
      Your comments in this thread lead me to believe you're a retarded person.

dagw 10y ago

Anything done purely as a cost cutting measure would be a good start for a list of processes to avoid.