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What’s in Hidden Valley’s ranch dressing?

Published on: June 24, 2010 at 6 am

Ranch dressing is a food processor’s wet dream: Take water, inexpensive ingredients, emulsifier, and you can mark up the resulting sauce with wide margins.

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Is this a flour tortilla?

Published on: January 19, 2010 at 2 pm

Food scientists are a creative bunch. They can take almost any set of raw materials and create a product that resembles food in taste and appearance. We only know these products are not food by the ingredient listings on their label; these ingredient lists can be extravagantly long.

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Can You Really Call That Lemonade?

Published on: August 10, 2009 at 10 am

Lemonade has a simple recipe—water, sugar, and lemon juice—but food processors have found a cheap way to make it very complex.

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