…or Why I NEVER Buy Reduced Fat Sour Cream! From the always great Fooducate Blog:
Regular’s Ingredients [3 of them]:
Cultured pasteurized grade A cream and milk, enzymes.
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Fat Free’s Ingredients [12]:
Cultured Lowfat Milk, Modified Corn Starch,Whey Protein Concentrate, Propylene Glycol Monoester, Artificial Color, Gelatin, Sodium Phosphate, Agar Gum, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Citrate, Locust Bean Gum, Vitamin A Palmitate.
When something as simple as Sour Cream is re-constructed in a science lab, something is definitely lost (and a helluva lot of chemicals gained).