I read them, one after the other, into the early hours of Saturday morning. Some books induce reflection, others introspection but that Saturday morning I came close to a nervous seizure. I must have still been in aftershock when I cleared the refrigerator of all the food because I have no memory of doing so. Even the dreaded E.Coli wanes before the 1500 Es that have made a silent and a deadly entry into our food products and our food chain the last link of the food chain now being in the hands of lab-coat wearing food technologists with their supply of magic potions of E series. My thoughts and my heart go out, especially to my vegetarian friends, who have never doubted the Natural Flavours in a packet of dehydrated tomato soup, and who have been gullible enough to believe that wines and the Sunday brunch Bloody Marys are vegetarian drinks.
Natural Flavourings can be anything from a natural source including beef, bacon, fish or poultry.
So vegetarians have no clue whether a flavour contains fish, poultry, beef or pork. A Tomato Soup with Natural Flavours is not necessarily a vegetarian delight. Ten years ago they changed the cooking medium to vegetable oil but the natural flavour in the fries is still from animal products . Natural smoke flavour is a bottled flavour. Some fast food chains serve grilled chicken sandwich with beef extracts.