chocolate lovers beware: new ingredient..PGPR

Yes, PGPR is crap and it is in almost all commerical chocolate. It is not currently in Lindol's truffle balls, I don't know about their candy bars. Helped me to walk away from Hershey's, Nestle's, and M&M/Mars -- I also think Cadbury is also using PGPR.

Also note - 99% of 'sugar' chewing gum now has aspartame in it also - read the labels if you don't believe me.

Since 2006, commercial-grade candy bars, such as those made by Hersheys and Nestle, made an industry-wide switch to include PGPR as an ingredient - a possible indicator of a cost saving measure by the commercial chocolate industry. Makers of PGPR (see source link below) such as Danisco and Palsgaard indicate that PGPR can be used to replace the more expensive cocoa butter as an ingredient in chocolate.

PGPR is a yellowish, viscous liquid comprised of polyglycerol esters of polycondensed fatty acids from castor oil. It may also be polyglycerol esters of dimerized fatty acids of soya bean oil.

PGPR is strongly lipophilic, soluble in fats and oils and insoluble in water and ethyl alcohol. In chocolates it is used as a viscosity reducing agent. [1]. It is virtually always paired with lecithin or another plastic viscosity reducing agent.

It can also be used as an emulsifier in spreads and in salad dressings or as a crystal inhibitor and anti-clouding agent in fractionated vegetable oils.

The Vegan Society claims that PGPR may be animal derived, but no evidence has been presented that any commercially available PGPR products are made using animal-derived substances.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Yes, PGPR is crap and it is in almost all commerical chocolate. It is not currently in Lindol's truffle balls, I don't know about their candy bars. Helped me to walk away from Hershey's, Nestle's, and M&M/Mars -- I also think Cadbury is also using PGPR.

Also note - 99% of 'sugar' chewing gum now has aspartame in it also - read the labels if you don't believe me.

The only gum I can find now without that crap is bubblegum

Thank God it's not in my Lindor truffles.... I too have noticed the gum, my son loves to chew and he told me everytime I chew this gum I get a headache, I looked at the label and sure enough "Aspertame" I threw it away. thanks for the heads up on the PGPR.

[link to www.carbwire.com]

Maybe we can find some chocolate
w/out this PGPR crap.

I will post what and where I find it.

It's very interesting that they continually change the ingredients of what I've been eating for the last 40 years.

No wonder I feel sick.

Me and my wife will make our own chocolates from now on.

It's easy anyway.

You need 2 tubs of PGPR
1 Block of Aspartime.
3 cakes of MSG
and my favorite ingredient : natural flavoring identitcal to nature No. #335678

Don't worry, it's identical to nature.
That's why we don't use nature, we synthetically produce nature. Whatever flavor it could be we don't tell you on the lable, it's the flavor of human embryos naturally identical to 1 week old abortions.
We are weening you onto the GREEN.









































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