Is Chicken Verde Enchilada made with normal ingredients?
Enriched flour and multiple artificial additives
Enriched wheat flour with niacin, iron, and other vitamins? And what is this natamycin and cellulose gum doing in my enchiladas? This is too much for Nonna.
What’s actually inside
All 35 ingredients, analyzed.
- TORTILLA (ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID))
Enriched flour is processed and stripped of nutrients, then artificially fortified, which Nonna does not recognize.
- CANOLA OIL
Modern industrial seed oil.
- VEGETABLE SHORTENING
Modern industrial seed oil.
- INTERESTERIFIED SOYBEAN OIL AND/OR PALM OIL
Modern industrial seed oil.
- CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SODIUM ALUMINUM SULFATE
Sodium aluminum sulfate is an artificial additive not found in traditional cooking.
- MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE
A leavening agent and food additive.
- AND/OR SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE
A leavening agent and food additive.
- DOUGH CONDITIONERS (FUMARIC ACID, SODIUM BICARBONATE, CALCIUM SULFATE)
Fumaric acid, sodium bicarbonate, and calcium sulfate are chemical additives used in modern food processing.
- PRESERVATIVES (CALCIUM PROPIONATE, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, ENZYMES, POTASSIUM SORBATE, CITRIC ACID, ASCORBIC ACID)
Enzymes without a specific source and other chemical preservatives are modern industrial additives.
- ANTIOXIDANTS (TOCOPHEROLS, ASCORBIC ACID)
Tocopherols are used as preservatives; while related to Vitamin E, in this context they are industrial additives.
- CELLULOSE GUM
A processed food additive used as a thickener or stabilizer.
- DOUGH CONDITIONERS (FUMARIC ACID, SODIUM BICARBONATE, CALCIUM SULFATE)
Fumaric acid, sodium bicarbonate, and calcium sulfate are chemical additives used in modern food processing.
- NATAMYCIN (A NATURAL MOLD INHIBITOR)
Natamycin is an antifungal agent used as a food preservative, not a traditional ingredient.
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