Tuesday, August 25, 2020

On calories

You know, it seems to me that Twisties (cheese flavour) have a lot more calories in them than the weight would suggest.  

Maybe it's in the cheese powder? 

Which has made me realise - how do they make cheese powder?   Here's an article in the New Yorker (of all places) about that.   It includes this bit of history:
While Marco Polo reportedly encountered a type of powdered milk in thirteenth-century Mongolia, and the first patent for commercial spray-drying was awarded to Samuel Percy in 1872, the first industrial spray-dried dairy products weren’t manufactured until shortly after Kraft’s development of processed cheese in the nineteen-twenties, according to “Food Powders: Physical Properties, Processing, and Functionality.”
Huh.
 


1 comment:

GMB said...

Look I worked for 22 years in the manufactured food industry.

Its not food Steve. You are NOT meant to eat it. Consider it like Christmas decorations. Or those nice smelling pellets in the mens toilets.

ITS NOT FOOD STEVE. You are not meant to eat it.