No Preservatives

[billroper]

daisy_knotwise went to Trader Joe's today and because she did not recently get any of samwinolj's lemon squares, she decided to buy a very nice looking lemon tart that said on it "No preservatives". I had a slice of it for dessert tonight and -- from the way I feel -- I conclude that "No preservatives" is a flexible target of some sort, because I'm pretty sure that the lemon juice that they used in the tart contained sulfites.

Sulfites, of course, are a preservative that I'm quite allergic to.

Fortunately, it doesn't appear to have been a lot of sulfites. And I'll be eating very carefully for the next little bit.

What a nice way to end what has been a very annoying day. *sigh*

Comments

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

Sulfites made the dried apricots from Trader Joe's less appetizing for me than ones from the grocery store.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Sulfates give me migraines. You have my sympathies.

Someone told me that I might not actually be allergic to coconut, because almost all dried coconut has sulfates. I'm not sure whether I'm brave enough to try fresh, though...

[billroper]

(Puts on former chemist hat...)

Sulfites, not sulfates. The latter give a lot of people problems, but I've not heard of problems with sulfates. And sulfites are what's in the dried coconut, unless you get the special sulfite-free stuff that daisy_knotwise picked up for me at Whole Foods.

The bad words on a label are: sulfite, bisulfite, metabisulfite, and sulfur dioxide. They all mean "Do not eat". :)

How are you with wine? (Which also contains sulfites.)

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the correction, sulfites are in fact what I meant. The LJ spell check led me astray.

Yes, all those words on labels make me cringe. Wines also cause headaches, yes.