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food companies save: cheeseburger with less cheese

26.08.2008

less ingredients, cheaper substitutes. The food industry is trying to save without noticing the consumer.

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because rising world prices for wheat and sugar are looking for, many food producers for new recipes to reduce their production costs. Expensive ingredients are replaced by cheaper alternatives, and portions are smaller. Prices remain in most cases the same or even increases, reports the Wall Street Journal. Taste and quality of which would not suffer, however, say the manufacturers. Book is also of spices, says Alan Wilson, Chief Executive of the spice suppliers McCormick: "With alternative ingredients and flavor technologies, we help food manufacturers to replace their expensive ingredients with cheaper, while maintaining the quality."

new tomatoes for the ketchup

In sweets cocoa butter is partially replaced by vegetable oil instead of milk and enzyme-modified products are used. McDonald's currently is testing more cost-effective way to prepare his double cheeseburger. Already sold in some stores that only with a slice of cheese instead of two. Burger King also plans to introduce a smaller Whopper Jr. hamburger, to cut costs, reports the Wall Street Journal. Smaller are the mini-editions of the Mars Inc. products, including M & Ms and Snickers. Ketchup giant Heinz tries contrast with specially grown, especially sweet tomatoes, reduce the addition of expensive corn syrup in ketchup. In production, this new culture is not used, however. stabilizers instead of milk

nutrition experts criticize many of the changes in the recipes. In particular, the use of stabilizers and thickeners instead of expensive low-fat milk in ice cream, cheese or milk drinks is criticized. "This is absolutely not a comparable replacement. What makes milk products so wonderful are your calcium and nutrients," says Bonnie Taub-Dix of the American Dietetic Association. Nicole Reichert from food producers Cargill considers, however, opposed to cookies and cream sauces anyway not the main supplier of vitamins and minerals are: "Weigh You have the benefits of caloric reduction through the use of substitutes for a small reduction of vitamins and minerals."

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