Hi gang: has anyone noticed a difference in Butter Flavored Crisco's taste or scent lately? I just bought a can and though it was well below its expiration date, it didn't have that certain taste or rich scent it once did. I made a pie crust with it and while it tasted all right, it didn't seem quite the same. I know it was reformulated to be free of trans fats, but it seems like there was something amiss about it. Has anyone else noticed this, also?
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I am just guessing,
but after several people were permanently incapacitated by that fake butter flavor and scent put into popcorn, maybe they had to stop putting it into this product, too.
Kind of a bummer, really. I can remember my dad liking butter flavor on and in many things when he wasn't permitted any of the real stuff at all.
but after several people were permanently incapacitated by that fake butter flavor and scent put into popcorn, maybe they had to stop putting it into this product, too.
Kind of a bummer, really. I can remember my dad liking butter flavor on and in many things when he wasn't permitted any of the real stuff at all.
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Something related to trans fat issues; Smucker's (who owns Crisco now) has reformulated the product for the purpose of getting trans fats out of it.
Something related to trans fat issues; Smucker's (who owns Crisco now) has reformulated the product for the purpose of getting trans fats out of it.
It could just be a case of--- out with the fat ,out with the flavor.
I used to use the Crisco product but because of cost went back to using IMPERIAL margarine in place of the flavored Crisco or any recipie that does not call for real butter. Works great for chocolate pound cakes where the flavor of real butter would not come through anyway. I put the real butter in the icing.
I still use regular Crisco for biscuits, cornbread and most fried foods such as fried chicken,squash blossoms, eggplant, okra,green tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. Haven't noticed any changes in it.
I used to use the Crisco product but because of cost went back to using IMPERIAL margarine in place of the flavored Crisco or any recipie that does not call for real butter. Works great for chocolate pound cakes where the flavor of real butter would not come through anyway. I put the real butter in the icing.
I still use regular Crisco for biscuits, cornbread and most fried foods such as fried chicken,squash blossoms, eggplant, okra,green tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. Haven't noticed any changes in it.
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Permanently incapacitated?
What happened? Did a miss a news report somewhere over time?
What happened? Did a miss a news report somewhere over time?
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Scott this goes way back to the early 2000's. It is called now Popcorn Lung from the concentrated butter flavoring being dumped into mixers to blend it to put into the microwave popcorn bag. I have encluded a link to a current lawsuit from a consumer. Since Carthage and Jasper are colse to us we followed the trail.
Back 10 or 11 years ago I told my family that everytime they did pop the butter flavor in the microwave it gave me a headache and mad me sick to my stomach. Once we stopped do that and started doing it in air popper ot other old ways hav not had the problem other than at work.
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Scott this goes way back to the early 2000's. It is called now Popcorn Lung from the concentrated butter flavoring being dumped into mixers to blend it to put into the microwave popcorn bag. I have encluded a link to a current lawsuit from a consumer. Since Carthage and Jasper are colse to us we followed the trail.
Back 10 or 11 years ago I told my family that everytime they did pop the butter flavor in the microwave it gave me a headache and mad me sick to my stomach. Once we stopped do that and started doing it in air popper ot other old ways hav not had the problem other than at work.
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Wow...thanks Westie. I don't use that type of popcorn, but I had no idea.
I noticed that Crisco has gotten nearly all of the trans fat out of its product when I looked at a can of it a month or two ago. The partially hydrogenated vegetable oil mostly has been replaced with a combination of more naturally saturated oils like palm oil. Good for Crisco!
As for the artificial butter flavoring - I thought the main danger from that was breathing in the powdered flavoring chemical in the factories. Not from consuming it. But since it's a fake flavor maybe it's not so good ingesting it either. I actually picked up a quart size container of such butter flavoring (mixed with salt) as a restaurant supply place a few years ago. I never did care for what it did for popcorn, though, and tossed it in the trash during my last kitchen pantry reduction.
My advice: if you want butter flavor, use real butter.
As for the artificial butter flavoring - I thought the main danger from that was breathing in the powdered flavoring chemical in the factories. Not from consuming it. But since it's a fake flavor maybe it's not so good ingesting it either. I actually picked up a quart size container of such butter flavoring (mixed with salt) as a restaurant supply place a few years ago. I never did care for what it did for popcorn, though, and tossed it in the trash during my last kitchen pantry reduction.
My advice: if you want butter flavor, use real butter.
Diacetyl is the cause
Here is the wiki link about this. I did not know was used in margarine.
en.wikipedia.org
Here is the wiki link about this. I did not know was used in margarine.
Diacetyl - Wikipedia
Interesting, neither the Imperial or Fleishman's margarine list diacetyl as an ingredient. I wonder if somehow they got some kind of waiver from the FDA that allows them to change the description to "flavoring" or something vague.
