Not quite, just like faked Kona Coffee,
it is still caviar but a cheaper species.
Looks like the big boys are moving in as the pickings are better
with the rich and famous who can’t tell their burgundies, coffees or now
caviar.
I think I like to get those cheap stuff that could pass as
fakes.
The Guardian:
Is fine dining having its Apollo 13 moment? I know it's not on
the same scale as "Houston
King is the founder and co-owner of the eponymous King's Fine
Foods, the UK 's largest
supplier of caviar with a client list that includes Buckingham Palace
Random DNA tests taken back in October at King's premises in Richmond
The
Cockroach Catcher has always been amazed that in a short time under pressure
form consumer groups and the government, food manufacturers and supermarkets
managed to produce detail analysis of the product they sell so that consumers
can be clear what they are “consuming”!
What he
was amazed was how healthy most foods were: sugar free, trans-fat free,
cholesterol free. Even when the product has cheese.
Wow!
Modern food processing technology! Or was it modern labelling technology!
Then he
remembered Ribena. You can read about it here>>>>>
Vancouver ©2012 Am Ang Zhang
I happened
to be in one of the world’s most livable city and imagine my surprise when I
read this in:
Global News: https://globalnews.ca/news/236395/canadian-nutrition-label-claims-often-wildly-misleading-tests-show/
Tests unveil misleading food labels
Bad nutrients understated, good
ones overstated
By Sarah Schmidt, Postmedia News
Some
of the world's biggest food brands and leading organic labels have understated
the amount of bad nutrients — such as fat, sugar and sodium — in their
products, or overstated the good ones, internal government tests show.
Kraft,
Frito Lay, Unilever and Heinz are among the big names with a product that
flunked Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) testing, conducted to see if
nutrition claims on labels live up to their billing.
Loblaw's
popular President's Choice brand had multiple "unsatisfactory" tests
on products ranging from cereal to spaghetti.
Premium
brands like Amy's Kitchen, Eden Organic, Natur-a, Kashi and Yves Veggie Cuisine
also fell short on composition claims, as did Canadian food-makers like
B.C.-based Sun-Rype Products Ltd. and Quebec-based Aliments Fontaine Sante.
No Sugar:
Among the
breads and baked goods tested, Fenwicks "no sugar added" cookies (too
much sugar)
Iron:
In the
snacks category, Krispy Kernels Inc.'s Island
mixed nuts claimed to contain 90 per cent of the recommended daily intake of
iron per serving. Samples tested by CFIA found contained a fraction of that:
10.5 per cent.
A sampling
of other findings shows the huge discrepancies that can exist between labels
and ingredients.
Cholesterol:
Some
snacks boasting a "No cholesterol" message on their label showed
levels ranging from 4.3 milligrams (Lays Smart Selections chips) to 10.5 mg
(Barbara's Cheesepuff Bakes) per portion, according to CFIA tests.
(PepsiCo
says its own tests on Lays chips, conducted after CFIA informed the company of
the agency's eight unsatisfactory tests involving samples of three Smart
Selections chip products, showed the claim was accurate.)
Kraft made
the same no-cholesterol claim for its Ritz "Real Cheddar Cheese"
crackers, but CFIA testing showed the crackers contained 3.2 mg per portion.
Dare's cinnamon snap biscuits contained 4.9 mg, CFIA testing showed.
These
discrepancies pale in comparison to the findings of two canned snail products
picked up from Dollarama stores in Regina Indonesia
Vitamins:
Canned
foods from Unico (pizza sauce), Primo (vegetable soup), Stokely (pumpkin) and
Amy's (refried beans, butternut soup) all fell short of their vitamin claims.
So did Eden Organic's vegetable spirals, President's Choice organic pasta
sauce, Fontaine Sante spinach dip and Island Farms yogurt.
Of the 40
products found to be overstating the amount of vitamins in their products, Yves
Veggie Cuisine Ground Round (Mexican flavour) and a prepared pasta dinner by
Olivieri Creations stood out for being wildly inaccurate.
The label
on Yves Veggie Cuisine Ground Round, a product of the Hain Celestial Group,
said each serving contained 80 per cent of the daily value of vitamin A, but
CFIA testing showed 3 per cent. And a pre-packaged tortelloni and chicken
dinner by Olivieri Creations claimed to contain 110 per cent of the daily value
of vitamin C per serving, but CFIA found a serving contained only 1.1 per cent.
Sun-Rype,
Oasis and Bolthouse Farms were among the juice brands that overstated — by
about double — the amount of a vitamin.
Two juices
from Dewlands fared worse; each boasted 35 per cent of the daily value of
vitamin A, butnone was
detected in either.
Omega
acids:
Big-brand
products that failed to live up to their omega-3 or omega-6 fatty acid claims
included President's Choice Angus burgers, Kraft House Italian dressing and
Country Harvest tortillas. Hellmann's mayonnaise under-delivered on the amount
of polyunsaturated fatty acids, as did Kashi's honey almond flax cereal.
Specialty
products that overstated one these so-called "good fats" include
Natur-a soy beverages, So Good fortified soy beverage, Ruth's cereal, and Mom's
Healthy Secrets cereal.
GoldSeal
canned salmon, Ocean's canned salmon, Our Compliments salmon burgers and High
Liner salmon were among the fish products that overstated the amount of omega-3
or omega-6 fatty acids.
Salt:
Some
products pitched as reduced in sodium didn't live up to their billing,
including Heinz "25 per cent less sodium" Dora the Explorer vegetable
and pasta soup, Eden Organic "low salt" canned green lentils, rice
and beans, R.W. Knudsen Family "low sodium" vegetable cocktail,
"50 per cent less sodium" President Choice crackers, and "low
sodium" President's Choice tomato and roasted red pepper soup.
There were
also "unsatisfactory" discrepancies in three different Bread Works
Bakery "low in sodium" cracker products, with one containing 277.8 mg
of sodium, not 70 mg, according to CFIA tests.
Two
different cans of Unico artichokes, picked up four months apart, were found to
be saltier than claimed on the Nutrition Facts Table.
Calories:
"Light
tasting" Nutriwhip testing showed 68 calories per portion, not 20 as
claimed on the label. A green tea beverage from Tempest Tea claimed to contain
just 5 calories, but testing showed 106 calories per portion.
If it
could happen in Canada
Twitter:
Canadian Food Inspection Agency cuts cause Vancouver food inspectors unit to disband http://www.straight.com/food/630636/canadian-food-inspection-agency-cuts-cause-vancouver-food-inspectors-unit-disband … via @georgiastraight
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