Can a hot sauce be deemed 'all natural' on the label if the ingredients include sodium benzoate or xantham gum?
simple enough...
simple enough...
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All natural??
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The FDA does not regulate "All Natural" but if you are a large company and lie your name will be smeared and you'll end up changing it with a possible lawsuit. Naked Juice anyone?
Xanthan is natural, sodium benzoate is synthetic. Yes if you wiki it, it says it comes from some berry, but that was 100 years ago, nowadays it is synthesized in a lab, same as potassium sorbate, and a bunch of others.
Xanthan is natural, sodium benzoate is synthetic. Yes if you wiki it, it says it comes from some berry, but that was 100 years ago, nowadays it is synthesized in a lab, same as potassium sorbate, and a bunch of others.
I'm probably the smallest company on the planet. lol
just looking for an 'edge' while preparing my new labels. I definitely don't want to lie, so I guess the answer is no. :/
just looking for an 'edge' while preparing my new labels. I definitely don't want to lie, so I guess the answer is no. :/
salsalady
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The AHJ will have the final say-so about what's on a label and how it's worded. Talk to them, and do your own research about every item. "Organic" is another hot button word on a label. Even though "organic" is a lot more regulated, similar issues come up for discussion.
1. Natural: Ingredients that are derived from plant oils without any chemical modification.
2. Plant-Derived: Some ingredients obtain their carbon exclusively from plants, but have been modified from their state found in nature to provide functional performance.
3. Plant-Based: Sometimes a plant oil is modified with carbon from other sources to improve its performance. When carbon in the modified plant oil is mostly (more than 50%) from the plant.
4. Plant-Modified Synthetic: When most (50% or more) of the carbon in an ingredient is from sources other than a plant.
5. Synthetic: If the carbon in an ingredient is derived exclusively from petroleum or natural gas, the ingredient is synthetic.
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Most companies are calling #1 and #2 natural. Some have tried but failed with #3 (High Fructose Corn Syrup). 4 and 5, no.
Ask your co-packer or ingredient source, because a preservative such as sodium benzoate can actually be many of these. Sometimes 2 but 99% of the time 5.
Also please read up on the dangers of sodium benzoate when mixed with citric acid, it creates benzene. Coke removed it from their sodas for this reason. If you have citrus I'd take it out.
And listen to SL, she knows!
2. Plant-Derived: Some ingredients obtain their carbon exclusively from plants, but have been modified from their state found in nature to provide functional performance.
3. Plant-Based: Sometimes a plant oil is modified with carbon from other sources to improve its performance. When carbon in the modified plant oil is mostly (more than 50%) from the plant.
4. Plant-Modified Synthetic: When most (50% or more) of the carbon in an ingredient is from sources other than a plant.
5. Synthetic: If the carbon in an ingredient is derived exclusively from petroleum or natural gas, the ingredient is synthetic.
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Most companies are calling #1 and #2 natural. Some have tried but failed with #3 (High Fructose Corn Syrup). 4 and 5, no.
Ask your co-packer or ingredient source, because a preservative such as sodium benzoate can actually be many of these. Sometimes 2 but 99% of the time 5.
Also please read up on the dangers of sodium benzoate when mixed with citric acid, it creates benzene. Coke removed it from their sodas for this reason. If you have citrus I'd take it out.
And listen to SL, she knows!