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| 12th October, 2005 | The label said 'gluten free'. I had no doubts about that but what was the source of the stated carbohydrate in the product? |  View large |
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Dear Sir,
I eat your yoghurt - plain and naturally set. Like me.
It was only tonight, with precious little to watch on the television, that I read your label. Never a wise thing to do, I agree, and symptomatic of the paucity of good quality junk mail in this, the off season.
Initially I was most amused with the 'Gluten Free' claim. I don't doubt it. It is also meat free, peanut free, caffeine free, non-alcoholic, contains no dolphin (drift net or otherwise), and no animals were used in its testing. Except me.
There is a school of thought that none of these things would be found in plain cultured milk product anyway.
Still amused over that I passed a cursory and gluten-free glance over your nutrition panel. Usually fairly dry reading and I will bet a tub of your wonderful custard yoghurt that I am probably the first consumer to do so. But I have a question.
The ingredients for your product are whole milk and milk solids (containing fat, protein and carbohydrate-lactose) and assorted buggy things (protein).
So what is the source of the non-sugar carbohydrate?
The lactose will make up all of the sugars but the total carbohydrate is 1.3% higher than the total of the sugars.
Tricky, eh?
Yours curiously free,
J. Cosmo Newbery.