Parmesan Cheese...or Not....

[janzman]

....only affects those too lazy to grate their own. Solution: buy your parmesan in solid block form and grate it yourself. Media URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3450137/The-Parmesan-putting-pasta-WOOD-Report-finds-products-contain-NO-cheese.html
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[janzman]

Oops try that again
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3450137/The-Parmesan-putting-pasta-WOOD-Report-finds-products-contain-NO-cheese.html

[Old_Geezer]

An anti-clumping agent agent in limited quantity is fair enough, but the law allows far to much tolerance (i.e. lie telling) when it comes to stating ingredients. IF something is labelled cheese then cheese should be a majority ingredient and the details shown. If something is called 100% cheese then it should be unacceptable for it to contain anything else (inability to filter out everything accepted - maybe 0.01% other allowed ?). Deliberate addition of 2% to 4% other and not listed is totally unacceptable. That would make it 96% to 98% cheese at best. The law should not allow such blatant deception. It is supposed to be benefiting the public, not the merchants.

[andy-hughes]

Since parmesan smells strongly of baby vomit, I am amazed anyone would allows it within a hundred yards of anything they are going to eat.

[woofgang]

Just to point out that that article is about the US and not the UK.

[viv41]

Wood ?? I've heard everything now !

Love Parmesan by the way ...

[Cloverjo]

Freshly grated Parmesan doesn't smell of vomit. It's those horrible little tubs of powdered stuff that do. I wouldn't use them.

[gingejbee]

IMO anyone who buys the already-grated stuff deserves to be ripped-off.