Day 005 - 04 Jul 94 - Page 30
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Q. Do you ever make cakes?
2 A. I have been known to make a few.
3 Q. Have you over put disodium dihydrogen diphosphate in your
cake?
4 A. When I bake a birthday cake for my wife most Februarys
I buy a mix, I add some milk, water, a couple of eggs, and
5 I take the coward's way out. I do not make them from
scratch. I would guess a plant that makes them with the
6 ingredients rather than rely on Betty Crocker probably has
to use these bits to get there; I do not. I am not that
7 talented.
8 Q. You do not recall putting those things in your cake
anyway?
9 A. I just said, no.
10 MR. MORRIS: While we are on nutrition I will come, because
Helen is feeling a bit tired, but if we go back to that
11 American document, if someone helps me, we can identify
what bundle it is. Tab 5 -----
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: Pages 73, 74.
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MR. MORRIS: If we can go to page 80, this is an example: You
14 said on Friday, I believe, your chips are cooked in the
same way that they would be cooked in most homes in the
15 country?
A. If you are going to make french fries, you take a
16 potato, you put it in hot oil or hot fat of some kind, you
cook it until it is done, yes.
17
Q. The ingredients list of french fries, is it not, is
18 potatoes, a blend of partially hydrogenated fat and oil,
(beef fat and cotton seed oil), dextrose, sodium acid
19 pyrophosphate (to promote colour retention); is that
correct those are the ingredients, or in 1986 in America
20 indeed, presumably?
A. Well, if they published them in this booklet, I dare
21 say that is what they use, yes.
22 Q. "Cooked in our own shortening blend for french fries" --
if you look at page 84?
23 A. 84?
24 Q. Yes, page 84, it says, "shortening blends", yes?
A. Yes.
25
Q. Ingredient list for french fries: "Selected blend of beef
26 shortening and partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening
(cottonseed oil), monoglycorides, citrate, propylgalate
27 (added to protect flavour). This shortening is 43 per
cent saturated". Is that correct?
28 A. Yes.
29 Q. Maybe we could move on?
A. Did you have a question about this?
30
Q. I am just checking that is correct.
