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Back during the mercifully short period when I was pretending to be an engineer, we were shown a project which counted fruit distributions in fruit salad. (Really - people were being paid good money to consult on this.)

Some of the fruit is bleached. For other strategic fruit marketing destinations, such as pie and doughnut fillings, it may also be pulped and reconstituted into square-ised pseudo-cube lumps.

The natural colour of the bright red cherries in tinned fruit salad was zombie-grey. They only became lipstick red after they'd been marinated in colouring for a few hours.

Things may have changed now, but I'd guess that a lot of what comes out of food processing factories is still rather disturbing in its naked state.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 03:02:21 PM EST
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Breakfast Oatmeal comes with several types of dried "fruit" including apple,  "peach," "strawberry" etc.  But neither strawberries nor peaches would hold up for the process while apples would do so just fine.  So they take apple chips, dye them red or yellow and add artificial flavors that make them taste remarkably like peach or strawberries. My palate cannot tell the difference.  The clue is on the ingredient list.  Fortunately I am quite satisfied with apple and cinnamon as my standard fare.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 09:18:18 PM EST
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