The label states 'no added MSG' and 'no Artificial Colours or flavours' yet with a list of 19 or so ingredients I couldn't help but be suspicious.
On the positive side though at least there are no coal tar dyes. Good to see Turmeric & paprika listed.
However, with only 29% pumpkin & 62% tomato you have to wonder what is in the rest of the product?
There are 2 hidden forms of MSG in both the Pumpkin & Tomato soups.
Pumpkin- maltodextrin & yeast extract (14th, & 15th respectively) and
Tomato- yeast extract & natural flavours ( 17th & 19th).
Both flavours have mineral salt 450; the pumpkin flavour has the additional mineral salts 451 & 452.
It puzzles me how they can be regarded as 'safe' when there are links to these mineral salts and kidney stones in susceptible people.
Quite unusual, but pleasing to see the herb lovage ( a tall celery like plant) as the 17th ingredient in the Pumpkin flavour.
Lovage can be used in digestive difficulties, such as colic, indigestion and flatulence.
However, this good feeling was very quickly negated when I read the 19th ingredient in the pumpkin was 'natural butter flavour'- i.e. Diacetyl- the substance linked to lung disease in Microwave Popcorn.
Too high a price for convenience.
FRESH IS BEST.
'In 2012, Wayne Watson a regular microwavable popcorn consumer for years, was awarded $7.27 million in damages from a federal jury in Denver, which decided his lung disease was caused by the chemicals in microwave popcorn and that the popcorn's manufacturer, Gilster- Mary Lee Corporation, and the grocery store that sold it should have warned him of its dangers.'
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