What is an example of a food without additives?

[CindyHang]

Hello friends,

I have a project due tomorrow and I can't find a food without additives. If I don't have it I will have to go and buy the item. I just need the Nutritional Facts part.

Best regards
Cindy Hang

[Consumer Products Guy]

Laura Scudder and Trader Joe natural peanut butter. Peanuts and salt only.

[R13]

Milk.

[Peter Apps]

If by additives you mean only things that are added during processing then all fresh vegetables, meat and fish should qualify (beware poultry though).

If "additives" means residues of chemicals that are used during food production then you are pretty much limited to wild harvest fish, meat and plant products. NB the "organic" does not mean residue free.

Peter

[MaryCarson]

Milk almost always has vitamins A and D added

[Klaus I.]

Milk almost always has vitamins A and D added

Really everywhere?

[MaryCarson]

Everywhere I'm likely to shop Kind of hard to find unfortified milk in the U.S.

[Klaus I.]

Everywhere I'm likely to shop Kind of hard to find unfortified milk in the U.S.

When do you will ever visit Austria, Germany or Switzerland, I will have the pleasure to introduce you with a real cow and real milk

[MaryCarson]

I may take you up on that offer, Klaus. Though at this point in my like I strongly prefer the taste of skim milk, and I don't remember seeing much of that last time I was in Germany and Switzerland.

Didn't Holsteins (the main milk cow in the U.S) originate in Germany?

I take it vitamins are not added routinely to milk in the EU?

[Klaus I.]

I may take you up on that offer, Klaus. Though at this point in my like I strongly prefer the taste of skim milk, and I don't remember seeing much of that last time I was in Germany and Switzerland.

Sorry but I think, I cannot understand the second sentence correctly.

In Germany and Austria the usual offered Milk is thermal treated, but without addition of other stuffs. Also you can buy real untreated Milk from some farmers, but they have heavy additional hygienic requirements.

Didn't Holsteins (the main milk cow in the U.S) originate in Germany?

This thematic seems to be very difficult and it is discussed very controvers. I have asked some people affiliated/relationed(?) to my wife: There knowledge is that the Holstein cows have there origin in the USA- Because some german settler with cows have shared a meadow(?) with other german cows.
Sorry but my understandig of the english language. It is for non-LC/MS terms now really overstrained(?)

In Fact the cow race itselfe was appearently described in the US firstly!
Nowadys the black-white Holstein cows are also very common in the northern part of germany.
The word "Holstein" itselfs simply describes a area in northern germany.

I take it vitamins are not added routinely to milk in the EU?

In Germany and Austria, I have never observed additions to the milk. Usually in switzerland the milk is also untreatened (or only thermal treatened, like in germany or austria), but in switzerland they made experiments with milk an additional stuff/vitamins.

Klaus

P.S.: Recently I have noticed in newspaper, that danmark also adds vitamins in milk.

[MaryCarson]

Though at this point in my like [life] I strongly prefer the taste of skim milk, and I don't remember seeing much of that last time I was in Germany and Switzerland.

Sorry but I think, I cannot understand the second sentence correctly.

Skim milk is milk without the fat. It is an old term, from when you let milk separate and skimmed the cream off the top. Now it is usually referred to as non-fat milk. "Whole milk" has between 3.5% and 4% milk fat. Most grocery stores also carry 2% and 1% milk.

Klaus, you would probably find my English easier to understand if I typed it correctly!