On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:32:53PM -0600, jf noonan wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Joanna Sheldon wrote:
> >
> > "A typical artificial strawberry flavor, like the kind found
> > in a Burger King strawberry milk shake, contains the
> > following ingredients: amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl
> > valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl
> > isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl
> > valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl, dipropyl ketone,
> > ethyl acetate, ethyl amyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl
> > cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylate, ethyl lactate,
> > ethyl methylphenylglycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl
> > propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin,
> > hydroxyphenyl-2-butanone (10 percent solution in alcohol),
> > a-ionone, isobutyl anthranilate, isobutyl butyrate, lemon
> > essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl
> > anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl
> > heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl
> > salicylate, mint essential oil, neroli essential oil,
> > nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol,
> > rose, rum ether, g-undecalactone, vanillin, and solvent."
>
> Right, most of those things are probably in strawberries too,
> hence the strawberry smell.
>
> > And all I want is a strawberry that tastes like a strawberry.
>
> A strawberry without the organic chemicals, eh?
>
> It's called water. You take all the scarey sounding substances
> (hundreds, if not thousands of them) out of strawberries and you
> have water (dihydrogen monoxide).
>
> > Something our grandparents would have taken for granted but
> > which is almost impossible to find anymore.
> >
> > It occurs to me to wonder why we're surprised the cancer
> > rates are so high.
>
> Yeah, we live long enough to get cancer now. Cancer is an older
> person's disease with incidence very low in children (e.g. there
> are only about 1500 cases of lymphoma in children per year in
> the entire US), and building steadily the older one gets.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Joseph Noonan
> Houston, TX
> jfn1 at msc.com
>
> "An average scrapple loaf contains the rectums of 4 swine."
>
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