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Folger's Decaf Instant Coffee ?!

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Last week I picked up a small box of Folger's Decaf Instant Coffee, the single-serve tubes. I know, it is a poor excuse for coffee but I specifically wanted something small that wouldn't go stale on the shelf and would be portable for "one shot" uses.

Imagine my surprise when I accidentally read the ingredients and saw the incredibly cautious? or honest? warning that it MIGHT contain milk, eggs, alien body parts, and wheat.

Well ok, maybe no alien body parts. But a "may contain...WHEAT" warning in what is basically dehydrated coffee?? REALLY?? I can't help wonder what kind of packaging machinery this must share, that some wheat product is being handled along with the presumably constant volume of coffee they are putting in the packets.

Just when you think it is safe to rashly assume a food is just a food...I don't know if they deserve praise for being honest, or brickbats for being absurd, in their cross-contamination.

No such warning on the Taster's Choice product though. Nestle is more certain that there is just coffee in their coffee.

 

Brickbats? Or kudos?

 

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41 minutes ago, lyfan said:

Last week I picked up a small box of Folger's Decaf Instant Coffee, the single-serve tubes. I know, it is a poor excuse for coffee but I specifically wanted something small that wouldn't go stale on the shelf and would be portable for "one shot" uses.

Imagine my surprise when I accidentally read the ingredients and saw the incredibly cautious? or honest? warning that it MIGHT contain milk, eggs, alien body parts, and wheat.

Well ok, maybe no alien body parts. But a "may contain...WHEAT" warning in what is basically dehydrated coffee?? REALLY?? I can't help wonder what kind of packaging machinery this must share, that some wheat product is being handled along with the presumably constant volume of coffee they are putting in the packets.

Just when you think it is safe to rashly assume a food is just a food...I don't know if they deserve praise for being honest, or brickbats for being absurd, in their cross-contamination.

No such warning on the Taster's Choice product though. Nestle is more certain that there is just coffee in their coffee.

 

Brickbats? Or kudos?

 

-_- toasted barley beverages are often made by these companies as a coffee alternative. The line that makes that one probable does them on rotations. Amusingly enough I do go with Taster's Choice as a back up for my Christopher Bean flavored coffee. But hey you want to hear weird...I found a can of matcha green tea at trader joes that contained xantham with wheat.....I still do not get that one.
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Someone decided it needed more "umami" flavor to it. Gluten is added to commercial chicken soups for the same reason, to add the "texture" or flavor of missing chicken fat.

I would have thought that plain industrial hygiene and simple steam cleaning of the production line would be enough to prevent cross-contamination of water soluble products like that. I guess that means they just "wipe it down" and don't waste money on cleaning. (Ugh.)

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Well, I say kudos to you for reading the ingredients & noticing those alien body parts.:lol: 

You too Ennis.

And that folks, is why our life long motto is......

READ EVERY LABEL EVERY TIME

Good going you 2 & thanks for posting!

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