FDA Finds Wood Fillers in Parmesan Cheese, Investigates Large Retailers

KPTV ^ | Wednesday, February 17, 2016 | JACQUELINE CUTLER

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[onedoug]

“Wood!!!!”

[SkyDancer]

Also bread? Cellulose?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Extra fiber.

[Psalm 73]

Note to self:
Sawdust to stretch flour in a possible SHTF era.

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, heck. You used to get that in the hamburger.

[Parmy]

I was wondering why my two front teeth stopped growing. It is all that wood I have been eating. Who would have thought?

[discostu]

Important rule on food, if you can leave it in your fridge for years and it never grows mold it’s not actually food, food can sustain life. This rule applies to canned cheese and Mission tortillas.

[HamiltonJay]

Cellulose is added to shredded cheese as an anti caking agent, this isn’t something new, virtually all shredded cheese has this.. if it didn’t it would stick together as it sat on the shelfs waiting to sell, and in your fridge.

[catnipman]

The only real “parmesan” cheese is Parmigiano-Reggiano, and is made in the Italian provinces of Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna and Mantua.

Fortunately, since that’s the only “parmesan”cheese I buy, I don’t have to worry about wood fillers.

[ifinnegan]

FDA is a useless bureaucratic government parasite.

Or it’s not.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Or you can just buy a big hunk of parmesan at the store and grate as you go. :-)

[Moonman62]

A study by Bloomberg News reveals that Walmart’s Great Value 100% Parmesan Cheese is roughly 8% cellulose and Jewel-Osco’s Essential Everyday 100% Grated Parmesan Cheese is almost 9%.

...

What does 100% mean these days?

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Parma-mucel. A more “regular” cheese.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

It probably prevents clumping.

What aggravates me is adding liquid to make sharp cheddar heavier.

[Jim W N]

Maybe so, but if this is supposed to validate the FDA as anything but an unconstitutional, wasteful, and harmful entity, fugeddabouddit.

Private enterprise would do a lot better with all this kind of stuff. Demand for verified quality would bring much more effective results in the free market than that of the clunky, interest-conflicted, corrupt, unaccountable FDA.

[rarestia]

Or you can just buy a big hunk of parmesan at the store and grate as you go

That's the only way to go.

[DBrow]

It’s right on the ingredients label. We need an investigation for this why?

[ifinnegan]

You aren’t supposed to say things like that.

You are supposed to outraged!!!

No place for knowledge, understanding, objectivity or rationality.