Re: Why are all canned veggies including pumpkin illegal on the SCD?

[Guest guest]

At 08:55 AM 10/8/2009, you wrote:

I have several cans of pumpkin

and squash - and that's all the ingredient list. Why are they illegal? Is

it something to do with the can? Same question for tomatoes - buying all

those tomatoes alone to make my own sauce is getting

costly.

Because the manufacturers are not required to disclose any

" processing aids " which may be used, and because up to 2% of

contents may not be pumpkin or whatever.

The problem is not with the canning process. It is with the

manufacturers.

Their goal is to produce an absolutely consistent product, year round. If

the tomatoes aren't quite the right color or something, they'll add a

squirt of sugar or something to improve the flavor. Because they don't do

this all year 'round, they aren't required to list it on the

ingredients.

I get " older " tomatoes " from the farmer's market... ones

which are bruised or slightly damaged, for significantly less than half

price to make sauce from.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

At 08:55 AM 10/8/2009, you wrote:

>I have several cans of pumpkin and squash - and

>that's all the ingredient list. Why are they

>illegal? Is it something to do with the can?

>Same question for tomatoes - buying all those

>tomatoes alone to make my own sauce is getting costly.

I make my sauce by boiling down legal canned tomato juice. Trust me, it's a lot

cheaper and faster!

Jill

[Guest guest]

Since the legal list seems to change, what are the kinds of tomato juice that

are legal?

Thanks

PJ

> >I have several cans of pumpkin and squash - and

> >that's all the ingredient list. Why are they

> >illegal? Is it something to do with the can?

> >Same question for tomatoes - buying all those

> >tomatoes alone to make my own sauce is getting costly.

>

> I make my sauce by boiling down legal canned tomato juice. Trust me, it's a

lot cheaper and faster!

>

> Jill

>