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Tranceformer
Joined: 07 Jan 2009
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Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:02 pm Post Subject: MSG In Your NZ Potato Chips!!! |
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Yes, unless you're eating "natural" chips like Bluebirds Health Plus chips, but ONLY their Sea Salt brand, then you are ingesting crap! I was shocked the other day to look on the back of big bag of Bluebrid's Salt n Vinegar chips and then got out my excellent "The Chemical Maze" book (get one if you don't have one already - essential!) and looked up Flavour Enhancer 621 or MSG or Monosodium Glutamate is in them!
I immediately threw the bag in the bin and will no only buy Bluebird's Health Plus Sea Salt chips!
And there is what just one of many sites say about MSG:
E621 Monosodium glutamate (MSG) can be an allergen, not permitted in foods for infants and young children ( so, young infants and children don't eat chips? Yeah, right! ) Also, toxic and not recommended for adults either! |
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Tranceformer
Joined: 07 Jan 2009
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Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:03 pm Post Subject: |
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| By the way, am not specifically picking on Bluebird, I am sure all the other big brnads like ETA etc are just as guilty! |
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Crakka
Joined: 07 Aug 2008
Posts: 1847
Location: The Wild West
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:53 pm Post Subject: |
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| Go to Truth In Labelling and all will be revealed! They've been hiding MSG in food by calling it all kinds of other things ever since the initial concern about it years ago. Here's the link, you'll want to bookmark this one and give to friends and family - http://www.truthinlabeling.org/index.html |
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smashdracs
Joined: 23 Nov 2005
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Location: Wellington NZ
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:57 pm Post Subject: |
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| Yeah I started having minor allergic reactions when eating flavoured chips (I have an acute fish allergy) guess what e621 is extracted from :wink: |
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Tranceformer
Joined: 07 Jan 2009
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Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:24 pm Post Subject: |
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Thanks for the excellent link Crakka. You and I must nearly be neighbours ! I live at Piha! :D
And here is the link to the excellent little book called The Chemical Maze - it's only about $15 and can fit in your pocket or your wife's or girlfriends handbag when you go shopping! http://possibility.com.au/ |
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smashdracs
Joined: 23 Nov 2005
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Location: Wellington NZ
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:39 pm Post Subject: |
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| Now that the vege garden is in full swing I hardly ever buy anything processed. |
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secondfield
Joined: 14 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:40 am Post Subject: |
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Yeah' I think smash is onto it.
We had our first crack in quite a while at a vege garden this year. Even with our sandy soil Im surprised at how well the plants took (+compost/horse manure and very enthusiastic watering).
There's nothing like the taste either ..
Looking to expand it soon.
I cant believe how many supermarket vegetables are imported in from china! (brocolli a major)
Madness and illogical interdependance. All for betterment of the arse sitting, telephone blowing - parasitic middleman, slave to the filthy black magicians club...
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Crakka
Joined: 07 Aug 2008
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Location: The Wild West
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:07 am Post Subject: |
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| Tranceformer wrote: | | You and I must nearly be neighbours ! I live at Piha! :D |
You're a bit further out than me but I spent all my formative years out at Piha surfing - even when I shoulda been working! I guess you could say it was my second home at one stage :wink: You're in a prime spot for viewing trails & other aerial phenomena though.
| smashdracs wrote: | | ...I hardly ever buy anything processed. |
You & me both! The decent local organic store gets all my grocery custom and we just recently went to a lot of trouble to source good lucerne hay & certified organic compost to build a proper prganic no-dig garden. Got a good mixture in now for the summer crop, just gotta tend it and progessively reap the benefits. Looking forward to the winter planting as everything will be well broken-in by then! Homegrown organic veges...mmmm... |
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Tranceformer
Joined: 07 Jan 2009
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Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:42 am Post Subject: |
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Hi Crakka
Yes, we are on the top of the hill actually, about 1000 feet up on an acre of bush so do see night sky quite clearly. Haven't seen any chemtrails though. Although my wife was very surprised to see a military plane flying low right over our house!! Perhaps they were on an exercise? It has happened a few times now.
We also try and buy organic when we can and there is the excellent East West Organics shop in Glen Eden and then even the organic butchers in Glen Eden too (Clarks) but i am sure you know of them living out West!
PS The surfing's been good lately and the National champs are on at Sth Piha now too. |
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