On 11/25/2013 04:13 PM, Anne Paulson wrote:
What do you think a "nutritive carbohydrate sweetener" is? It's *sugar*!
Sugar is a nutritive carbohydrate sweetener, but it is not the only
one. Others include include glucose, fructose, corn syrup, high
fructose corn syrup, and sugar alcohols (e.g., sorbitol, mannitol, and
xylitol), according to the Britannica.
One or any combination of two or more of the following safe and
suitable ingredients in each of the following categories is added to
the tomato ingredients specified in paragraph (a)(1) of this section:
(i) Vinegars.
(ii) Nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners. Such sweeteners if defined in
part 168 of this chapter shall be as defined therein.
(iii) Spices, flavoring, onions, or garlic.
Combing the verbiage with a fine-tooth comb I conclude that per the
standard, "nutritive carbohydrate sweetener" is in fact a required
ingredient.
You may say that one can leave out the sugar, and it will still
legally qualify as ketchup. Apparently so, but it is not going to
taste like ketchup.
AFAIK federal standards of identity prescribe what must be in a product,
but not what it is supposed to taste like.
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