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88sins wrote:pugboy wrote:down from $15
ent
I was pleasantly and happily surprised
So guess who making curry bodi and roti and ting for lunch Sunday
bluefete wrote:
New powdered milk - Jus Milk in groceries. But Vemco lying like hell and saying it is Full Cream Filled Milk when it is Skimmed MIlk. Price good though - $49.95 for 1200 grams.
K74T wrote:The only good condensed milks are Nestle and Moo. All others are trash.
ABOUT FILLED MILK
17 November 2018
Aiyegoro Ome
Many customers may not have paid attention to a low-cost food labelled “filled milk”. Our groceries and parlours sell different brands of evaporated filled milk and condensed filled milk but the average T&T consumer may not be aware of the difference between filled milk and whole milk, despite the advice of health administrators and nutritionists that we should read labels.
Every day consumers are using this particular food and with Christmas a few weeks away, homemakers and caterers are going to be putting filled milk into their shopping baskets to prepare the extra special delicacies that they intend to enjoy during the season.
The matter of filled milk is symptomatic about how little we know about the nature of food products that are imported into T&T.
https://www.guardian.co.tt/opinion/abou ... 454a7686a5
eliteauto wrote:bluefete wrote:
New powdered milk - Jus Milk in groceries. But Vemco lying like hell and saying it is Full Cream Filled Milk when it is Skimmed MIlk. Price good though - $49.95 for 1200 grams.
Be careful that is not the only lie being told. "Filled" milk is usually milk reconstituted with vegetable oil. Green Butterfly evaporated and most condensed milks on the marked are similarly "filled" now
pugboy wrote:suspect products are all over
I watched a documentary on global tomato economics the other day
China has taken over as largest producer of tomato puree
many factories add fillers, colouring , soy fiber to bulk it up.
Phone Surgeon wrote:
how come those sorts of things are being allowed to be imported and sold without issue?
Phone Surgeon wrote:i know the shipments wouldnt really get inspected but theyre being openly sold in groceries........
trinidad dont have any kinda of FDA that checks on good on supermarkets?
what stopping me from lacing a set of candy with cocaine or lanate and labelling it up nice and putting it to sell in a set of groceries or parlours across the country?
Xanatham gum.Rovin wrote:is it just me or orchard 1 liter juice drinks have become way more thicker higher quality compared to d watery stuff they used to make long time
i guessing stiff competition from other brands fighting up for a piece of d market share made orchard step up its game ...
maj. tom wrote:Xanatham gum.Rovin wrote:is it just me or orchard 1 liter juice drinks have become way more thicker higher quality compared to d watery stuff they used to make long time
i guessing stiff competition from other brands fighting up for a piece of d market share made orchard step up its game ...
paid_influencer wrote:I notice KC Confectionery shifted to chinese imported product a while now. I do not buy. Plenty of stuff also coming in from Turkey and that set is by far the worse. Nothing in english but they giving little children to eat. and the quality horrible, but it cheap cheap so all the parlours buying. Lots of latin american stuff available too but generally those are better quality than local or even sometimes US/UK products (imo).
IIRC, the body responsible for import inspection is the TTBS. Labeling (in English) being the big thing. We also have a Food and Drug division in the MoH but them does only crack down on small chinese groceries selling non-WITCO cigarettes.
I will say this tho:
I does go by Chen's Fortune shop all the time and a good half the stuff I buy is not in english and it doesn't really bother me. All that stuff comes from giant corporations in Asia that have factories and industrial processes bigger and better than anything we have locally. It very anglo-centric to think if it not in english it inferior. Anglo-centricity is our conditioning, not our reality.
but all that crap cheap chocolate/candy from Turkey is garbage and needs to be banned imo how is it even allowed who is the distributor how did he get around the law
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