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elwoodblues
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Subway uses chemical in bread found in Yoga Mats

Would you like a dose of carcinogens ,while you "eat fresh:?

SubwaY has been adding (to their dough) a chemical called Azodicarbonamide in their bread, it apparently acts as bleaching agent in the bread flour. It's also used in foam plastics , but I can't quite figure out it's role in that.

Due to a burst of anger by US consumers, they're now working on removing the chemical.

Subway said Thursday it’s in the process of removing a chemical from its bread as part of an ongoing effort to improve its recipes.

The announcement comes after a popular food blogger launched a petition this week asking the sandwich chain to stop using the ingredient, called azodicarbonamide. A representative for Subway says the change was underway before the petition was launched, but did not immediately provide details on when it started or when it would be complete.

“The complete conversion to have this product out of the bread will be done soon,” Subway said in a statement, without providing further details.

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HiVolt
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Jeez, WTF?

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Did you know the big commercial bakeries used Plaster of Paris in their bread for years?
It stopped air holes in the bread.

Not sure what they use now but I bet it glows in the dark!

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Over-reaction. It's generally regarded as safe at the levels used. Subway is removing it out of PR more than safety, I'd wager.




And just because a chemical has multiple uses doesn't mean any one use is somehow dangerous.

You buy an apple farm Elwood?

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Another thing pissing me off about our food supply. You buy a birthday cake at a major
supermarket chain. What they don't tell you are things like...where did the baking soda
come from....the vanilla extract....the raspberries in the filling? CHINA!

FaxCap

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Also watch out for the dihydrogen monoxide! They use that in all sort of things, like nuclear power generation and as a solvent.

elwoodblues
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said by Ian1:

You buy an apple farm Elwood?

I'm taking over YOYO's farm

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Only an idiot would say a particular chemical was bad because of what else its found in.

Newsflash! Freshly squeezed Orange juice contains chemicals found in active nuclear reactors! We should immediately ban this dangerous substance, sometimes called "water".

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said by Guspaz:

Newsflash! Freshly squeezed Orange juice contains chemicals found in active nuclear reactors! We should immediately ban this dangerous substance, sometimes called "water".

Pssst, I made that joke above.

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said by donoreo:

Pssst, I made that joke above.

In the fast and furious high-brow discourse that is CanChat, sometimes things can get posted while you're working on one. I for example, type about 20 WPM with two fingers and a thumb.

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said by FaxCap:

raspberries in the filling

Haha, you should look up artificial raspberry/vanilla flavoring....
Castoreum, it's some nasty... shit.

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lol, I wonder if those same angry US consumers eat at McDicks.

donoreo
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They probably do not and ate at Subway assuming it was healthier.

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said by Nitra:

said by FaxCap:

raspberries in the filling

Haha, you should look up artificial raspberry/vanilla flavoring....
Castoreum, it's some nasty... shit.

Eau du Beaver LOL
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said by FaxCap:

Another thing pissing me off about our food supply. You buy a birthday cake at a major
supermarket chain. What they don't tell you are things like...where did the baking soda
come from....the vanilla extract....the raspberries in the filling? CHINA!

I'm really surprised at how much of our food is coming from China these days. Take a look at frozen fish in your supermarket. I wanted to buy salmon, you'd think it would be from Canada. Nope, most of it was from China.

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Whoopee, milk & soy are source materials for plastic. Real sourdough bread is made out of free range air fungus. The fungus that makes your feet and underarms stink is used to make Limburger cheese. Styrofoam is used to make KFC sporks, thermonuclear weapons and prepared salad containers.

Sheeple are stupid, ban stupid.

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Eau du Beaver LOL

That's one job I wouldn't want...
Castoreum extractor.

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Pssst, I made that joke above.

In the fast and furious high-brow discourse that is CanChat, sometimes things can get posted while you're working on one. I for example, type about 20 WPM with two fingers and a thumb.

I type plenty fast, but sometimes a decent time can pass between hitting reply and finishing your post, regardless of typing speed, particularly if you're doing something else at the same time and writing replies while waiting for other things to finish.
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Re: Subway uses chemical in bread found in Yoga Mats

No wonder I feel so bouncy after eating at Subway.
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said by donoreo:

said by Guspaz:

Newsflash! Freshly squeezed Orange juice contains chemicals found in active nuclear reactors! We should immediately ban this dangerous substance, sometimes called "water".

Pssst, I made that joke above.

Some people find physical chemistry a challenge.

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said by MaynardKrebs:

Some people find physical chemistry a challenge.

I see what you did there

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What amuses me about this, is if you want to worry about stuff that may or may not be in your fast food, you need not look for less than 45 PPM of Azocarbonamide to worry yourself. The sodium, trans fats, sugar, pesticides on the veggies, possible e-coli on the veggies, and whatever nasties are on the surfaces cleaned by minimum wage teenagers should keep you busy enough.

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One day I used my head. I wondered if I could make a sandwich
smiliar to a Subway but without the eighteen chemical additives, and without
the same ammonia that is found in farm fertilizer to make white flour look brown,
which tricks me into thinking I'm getting 'whole wheat' bread. What Subway, the
world's largest crap food company does - is criminal in my opinion. I'll never
eat there again.

so I bought a bunch of quality ingredients including heavy rye bread, organic tomatos,
pickles with no calcium chloride, - the only chemical was some nitrates in black forest ham.
And I figured out I can make a gourmet sandwich almost the size of a footlong subway for $2.25 - and it tastes twice as good.

Fast food - Never Again.

There has to be something wrong with people who buy that crap.

Devanchya
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actually most of it is caught locally and packaged in China. There is a difference

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so they catch it near fukushima and sell it in canada?

nice.

Anav
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Yes,
How I want my tax dollars spent.
Test every food product coming into Canada from China (from fish products to veggies etc).
They have no standards, no safety, and are killing themselves, their land and water with poisons and toxins, be it from chemicals or natural byproducts from humans and animals.

elwoodblues
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said by Anav:

Yes,
How I want my tax dollars spent.
Test every food product coming into Canada from China (from fish products to veggies etc).
They have no standards, no safety, and are killing themselves, their land and water with poisons and toxins, be it from chemicals or natural byproducts from humans and animals.

That's why it's so cheap to buy from China, none of that pesky "red tape" to get in the way.
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said by yoyomhz:

And I figured out I can make a gourmet sandwich almost the size of a footlong subway for $2.25 - and it tastes twice as good.

Fast food - Never Again.

Seriously---open a sandwich place along with the farm.

Call it Yo-Way, as in "We make food Yo-Way".

elwoodblues
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$2.25 is the cost of materials,then tack on labour, rent, utilities, and other overhead and volia you have a $6 sub.

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SubwaY has been adding (to their dough) a chemical called Azodicarbonamide in their bread,

I'll never understand why the people so willingly take crap like that. I'm sure restaurants
in Europe can make a sandwich without adding carcinogens. And we can do it here too.