> Born to be WillD Wrote:
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> cellulose is great, whats wrong with it? it's a convenient easy organic
> indigestible non-abrasive harmless powder, very cheap, what would you
> propose as an alternative?
>
> I'm not really a food chemist, or a chemist at all, but I am a research
> scientist for the biggest chemical company in the world. My role is high
> temperature solids processing though, not much of it touches food stuff,
> but some of the catalysts for example are the catalysts used to
> partially hydrogenate your partially hydrogenated fatty acids. I don't
> think we make any of the brominate vegetable oils or glycerol esters but
> probably make the vitamin E in it if you were to buy commercial scale
> with additives
What's wrong with it? We're paying for parmesan cheese,NOT parmesan trees.