Saturday, 17 November 2012

Nabisco Premium Snack Packs

This week whilst on playground duty at school I asked a student if I could have their Nabisco wrapper after they had finished eating the contents. Whilst it was very pleasing to see that there were no flavour enhancers or artificial colours in the snack biscuits I was shocked to read that they were 'MADE IN CHINA BY KRAFT FOODS' (SUZHOU) CO.,LTD HU XI BRANCH. Then, as part of their 'food mile journey' the biscuits were imported back into Australia by Kraft Foods, Victoria!
Surely we can manufacture a plain snack biscuit here in Australia.

There is also another reason why they are not a 'safe' choice- the vegetable oil which is 2nd on the list contains 319. Most consumers would be accepting of an antioxidant in their food, however, it's real name is tert-Butylhydroquinone. This additive has been linked to cancer, birth defects as well as a cause of dermatitis, nausea, vomiting, delirium, & collapse.

Whilst in the supermarket yesterday I checked out the larger pkt. sizes of these snack biscuits & they were also 'MADE IN CHINA BY KRAFT FOODS'.

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