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It may depend on the brands, but one big brand of mayo here in France (Amora) has all kinds of weird crap, apart from "whipped egg with lemon and oil". It has
by vladvasiliu 3y ago
It may depend on the brands, but one big brand of mayo here in France (Amora) has all kinds of weird crap, apart from "whipped egg with lemon and oil".
It has rapeseed oil, which to me seems dubious since it requires special processing to make it non-toxic.
It only has 5.1% eggs (according to the label).
It also has "flavorings", thickeners and coloring agents.
So yeah, it's nothing like the homemade mayo I make, which only has olive oil, a bunch of eggs, mustard, and indeed some salt. Mine doesn't need any sort of coloring and is thick enough.
- ahoka 3y agoSource on rapeseed on being toxic, please.
- vladvasiliu 3y agoThe rapeseed oil isn't considered toxic anymore, since they take steps to remove the erucic acid from it, by growing canola bred to contain very little of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed_oil#Erucic_acid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed_oil#Erucic_acid While it says it's "generally considered safe", I prefer not to take any chances, just like I prefer to avoid plastic containers for my food, especially if hot (even though some plastics are "microwave safe"). --- I realize wikipedia isn't the greates of sources. Here are two more NIH https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9962393/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9962393/ Says it doesn't seem to be toxic in low quantities, but should be investigated more. To me, that means "rather avoid if possible". -- European Food Safety Authority says roughly the same: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/4593 https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/4593