What food has these chemical ingredients?
Monday, September 28th, 2009 at
9:58 PM
Trying to use these ingredients to make yogurt. What food naturally carries sodium citrate, potassium citrate, citric acid, guar gum, carrageenan, pectin in it?
For example, I just learn that lemon juice has citric acid in it. Please share. Thank you.
Filed under: Potassium Diet
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Hi Rick
The ingredients you saw on the sides of the yogurt container do not tell you the ratio’s nor what they are used for. Most of the ingredients you see are preservatives and add bulk and substitute for the REAL cultures that should be there.
Natural yogurt is simply a yogurt culture and milk, set aside in a warm place until the liquid has completely congealed. Usually takes about 8 hours- I used to make it by the quart, once a week.
I then poured it into 8 oz cups, added 1 Tblspoon of strawberry or other jam, and that was it. No need for any additives. Salton makes a yogurt maker- simple and easy.
Many of the "yogurt" marketed is fake and pure calories. Yoplait is an excellent example of a fake yougurt. Danon makes a real one, and they make all the junk-food yogurts too.
Its buyer beware.
All fruits naturally have pectin, but apples have an especially high concentration, and carrageenen is a seaweed which is processed to use as a thickener.
Sodium and potassium citrate are salts, and guar gum is the starch of the guar bean.