The Conservative Cave
Interests => All Things Edible (and how to prepare them) => Topic started by: bijou on June 24, 2010, 12:09:38 PM
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...The thought may be an appetite killer, but human hair can be used to make an additive that is found in foods such as the dough for pizza crusts and bagels.
Your mop top is a rich source of L-cysteine, an amino acid that can be extracted from hair and used as a flavour enhancer or flour improver. It is sometimes listed as E920 on food packaging. As well as being found in dough it can be used to give food a meat-like flavour, especially in dog food.
Ten to 15 years ago human hair was a main source of L-cysteine. Producers, mainly based in China, extracted it from hair clippings from salons, even strands collected from
But as people became more aware of what was in their food, they simply didn't like the thought of human hair having anything to do with what they ate. More Chinese people also started perming their hair, which made extracting the amino acid more difficult.
"As more people found out where L-cysteine came from they thought 'yuck, human hair, don't fancy that'," says a spokesman for Premium Ingredients, a major distributor of ingredients for the food, fragrance and pharmaceutical industries. ....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8753698.stm
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Geesh, not only am I glad I've already had lunch, but that my daughter and I had Mexican instead of Chinese.... :o
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Is this what happens when hair-dos don't?
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Geesh, not only am I glad I've already had lunch, but that my daughter and I had Mexican instead of Chinese.... :o
Chihuahua instead of Shar-Pei?