"Emma Thackery" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:
>
>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
>> ...
>
>> > What's pointless about it?
>>
>> Casting aside gluten intolerance for the moment, if a person's about to
>> eat
>> a bowl of fat & sugar, does it really matter if it's got some flour in
>> it?
>> We're not talking about diethylene glycol, found in toothpaste from
>> China.
>>
>> Then, they complain about ingredients here, where it is virtually
>> guaranteed
>> that the manufacturer has nobody watching for consumer reactions.
>
> Sometimes I wonder if you have a clue or if you stay up nights thinking
> of ways to garner some attention. You already know I am gluten
> intolerant so it's kind of puerile to pretend otherwise. But beyond
> that, I think a worthwhile question for all but the utterly braindead
> is: Why in the world would they put wheat in ice cream--- especially a
> premium ice cream? And if they are using things like wheat flour to
> thicken it, is it really ice cream or just some other kind of frozen
> dessert?
>
> How many people who make their own ice cream put wheat flour in it? I'm
> betting it's a big fat zero, though I have no doubt that, just to be
> contrary, someone will post that s/he does put wheat in ice cream.
> Obviously it's a filler since it's not listed as a flavor. It has
> nothing to do with poisons from China. It's a cheap filler.


Until you tell us what flavors you looked at in the store, anything further
you say is meaningless in this discussion.

Emma Thackery wrote:

> In article >,
> "Default User" > wrote:
>
> > The official answer when Breyers started
> > (they, along with B&J are owned by Unilever) was that it was to
> > prevent the problem of ice crystals due to refreezing.
>
>
> I've eaten plenty of Breyer's without either wheat or ice crystals.
> Blue Bunny and many other wheatless* brands don't have ice crystals
> either.

You snipped WAY too much. This discussion wasn't about wheat flour, but
thickeners and gums.



Brian

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Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Emma Thackery wrote:
> > In article >,
> > "Default User" > wrote:
> >
> >> The official answer when Breyers started
> >> (they, along with B&J are owned by Unilever) was that it was to
> prevent >> the problem of ice crystals due to refreezing.
> >
> > I've eaten plenty of Breyer's without either wheat or ice crystals.
> > Blue Bunny and many other wheatless* brands don't have ice crystals
> > either.
>
> Wasn't that (preventing ice) about guar gum or something? I don't
> think it's about the wheat.

Right. Breyers started adding a gum thickener sometime back (while
insisting that it still adheres to the Purity Pledge). The specific
ingredient is "natural tara gum".




Brian

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On 22 Jul 2007 16:51:50 GMT, "Default User" >
wrote:

>Emma Thackery wrote:
>
>> In article >,
>> "Default User" > wrote:
>>
>> > The official answer when Breyers started
>> > (they, along with B&J are owned by Unilever) was that it was to
>> > prevent the problem of ice crystals due to refreezing.
>>
>>
>> I've eaten plenty of Breyer's without either wheat or ice crystals.
>> Blue Bunny and many other wheatless* brands don't have ice crystals
>> either.
>
>You snipped WAY too much. This discussion wasn't about wheat flour, but
>thickeners and gums.

She only knows how to talk about wheat.

Lou

On Jul 20, 2:13 pm, Emma Thackery > wrote:
> Ben & Jerry's was on sale yesterday so I thought I'd try some since I've
> never had it before. They all had wheat flour in them..... well I think
> they all did but I stopped reading the labels after five flavors. '

I have celiac, and read labels thoroughly, and can eat roughly half of
B&J flavors. It is true that the most popular flavors are things like
cookie dough and brownie and cake batter and cheesecake, and stores
may stock those preferentially, so maybe that was your experience.
Cherry garcia is wheat free, and there's also a caramel and maybe
peanut butter one too, and that's off the top of my head --- B&J is
not my favorite, so I don't follow closely.

GZ

In article >,
"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:

> Ben & Jerry's ice cream often contains things like brownies or cookies (or
> cookie dough). THAT is where the wheat comes in; they use flour to make
> those things. I don't think the ice cream itself has wheat.

There's also the question of packaging equipment. If they make batches
of cookie dough ice cream one day, then use the same packaging equipment
to process vanilla, the latter OUGHT to be labeled as (possibly)
containing wheat. At least, that should be on the now-mandatory
allergens warning, though not the ingredients list.

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Scott wrote:
> In article >,
> "Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:
>
>> Ben & Jerry's ice cream often contains things like brownies or cookies (or
>> cookie dough). THAT is where the wheat comes in; they use flour to make
>> those things. I don't think the ice cream itself has wheat.
>
> There's also the question of packaging equipment. If they make batches
> of cookie dough ice cream one day, then use the same packaging equipment
> to process vanilla, the latter OUGHT to be labeled as (possibly)
> containing wheat. At least, that should be on the now-mandatory
> allergens warning, though not the ingredients list.
>


The Nathan's kosher beef hot dogs that Wife bought recently say they
have no fillers, but if you look at the fine print ingredient list they
contain wheat gluten (from China?) and soy protein. At least they do
list wheat and soy in the fine print possible-allergen statement.

Maybe it's time to start making my own wieners. I've got everything for
it except the lamb casings...

Bob

"zxcvbob" > wrote in message
...
>
> Maybe it's time to start making my own wieners. I've got everything for
> it except the lamb casings...
>
> Bob


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