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Question: Tea, Shelf Life. How long can I keep loose tea, I was given a present of some Darjeeling tea brought back from India last year, should I keep it in the freezer?? Gloria ggrieg333@damus.ping.net 11/08/05 (Ref:1157)
Question: Additives are a worry these days. What are hydrogenated vegetable oils in the list of additives in my food? what is monosodium glutamate and are they proven harmless??! Thanks, Nancy Lycanth@netscape.net Reply 7 Oct 2003 (Ref:0864)
Answer: Stay away from Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils. They compress additional hydrogen atoms into the product. They do this in margarine. These oils are liquid but they want them to be solids. So they increase the amount of hydrogen atoms in it so it will become a solid. Sounds harmless but it's not. It turns the fat into a plastic like material. Plus it fools your body into thinking it's an Essential Fatty Acid, which it's not. EFA's are very important to our bodies. Just another way science is changing our foods along with genetically engineered foods. - Submitted by Derek of www.cheap-diet.com 5 Oct 2003
Question: White Chocolate Is White chocolate really chocolate?. Thanks -- Alison Gates Alison@agospaz.com - (Ref:1108)
Answer: White Chocolate Officially white chocolate is not chocolate because it doesn’t contain any chocolate liquor. White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, milk solids, vanilla, and lecithin, and is ivory in color. White chocolate of less quality may contain vegetable fats instead of cocoa butter and will appear more white - Linda Byard 22nd April 2005
