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Old 11-02-2009, 21:01
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Last night, in an act of laziness and desperation, I ate a San Marco's pizza that I bought in Sainsbury's last week, on offer for £1.
After finishing the pizza, I was folding the box for recycling, and noticed that it is described as ...
"San Marco Deep pan pizza topped with tomato sauce, cheese flavour analogue, pepperoni slices and red & green peppers'.

what the hell is cheese flavour analogue? AS soon as I bit into it I though the cheese was a bit weird.
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Old 11-02-2009, 21:14
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I'm certain I saw something on telly a while ago about cheese analogue. I seem to remember it being some sort of fake cheese stuf...

Hang on.
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Old 11-02-2009, 21:17
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Yes, it's fake cheese made of "milk by-product" and vegetable oil instead of full fat milk. Tasty.

http://www.foodprocessing-technology...rg/press8.html

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4459313.html
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Old 11-02-2009, 21:22
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Yes, it's fake cheese made of "milk by-product" and vegetable oil instead of full fat milk. Tasty.

http://www.foodprocessing-technology...rg/press8.html

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4459313.html
thanks for the info!
A lot of words went through my head as I ate it, but surprisingly 'tasty' wasn't one of them!
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Old 11-02-2009, 21:26
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this stuff was on some programme with louix thoreux or somethin. "The truth about food" i think. Its basically fake stuff.
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Old 12-02-2009, 00:27
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There was a Ducth programme on analogue cheese.
The vile concoction is on almost every frozen pizza, lasagnas etc. It's cheaper than real cheese, so it increases the profit margins of the producers.
In this instance is declared, which is good. More often this is not the case.
They slab on a tiny bit of cheese so they can declare it on the box. The cheese analogue is then only declared by it's components.
This is common practice in the whole of the E.U..

You can tell it's cheese analogue because it does not melt the same way real cheese melts. And of course it tastes different.
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Old 12-02-2009, 00:47
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Wonder what cheese digital would be like ?
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Old 12-02-2009, 01:32
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Britain's really disgusting foods was originally on BBC3 and presented by Alex Riley.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mischief/hot_topics/food.shtml

It had some stuff about cheese substitutes
There were a couple of threads on it
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=889673
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=873618
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Old 12-02-2009, 08:06
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Britain's really disgusting foods was originally on BBC3 and presented by Alex Riley.
OMG I suddenly remember the bangers.
Now that was seriously disturbing. Makes cheese analogue look like Michelin starred food.
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Old 04-03-2009, 19:46
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I had a San Marco pizza the other day and also noticed the 'cheese flavoured analogue' on the ingredients list! The pizza itself was pretty dreadful, even compared with your average frozen pizza. Certainly won't be buying San Marco pizzas again, even if they are only £1 in Sainsburys!
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Old 08-03-2009, 23:44
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I too bought the pizzas and only noticed the words cheese flavour analogue when recycling the box. I can't believe they try to serve up this stuff! my husband was laughing last week when I bought cheap pizza from Aldi and it said "with real cheese" on the box, now I know why. Will be making my own pizza from now on and won't be so lazy even if it only costs a pound, not worth putting a chemistry set in your body!!!
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Old 09-03-2009, 00:34
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Asda's frozen pizzas appear to use all real cheese.
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Old 09-03-2009, 03:29
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Ah, but then you get in to the pasturisation debate. Is pasturised cheese real cheese?

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Old 09-03-2009, 08:09
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Is there a digital version?
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Old 17-05-2009, 22:56
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it's really frustrating scanning these pizza's at sainsbury's because all i want to do is tell the customer, "do you know, this pepperoni pizza has no cheese on it, just cheese flavour it's such a con yet people think it's on special offer at £1 when in actual fact that's the reason it's a pound! even sainsbury's basics pizza has real cheese on it, it's absolutely ridiculous! who has ever heard of a pizza without cheese on it?? it states on the back of the box that they only use the finest italian ingredients, or at least something along those lines, what a lie!! i only found this out myself not long back and used to think san marco was up there with the big guns like goodfella's! but it contains artificial cheese, artificial flavours, artificial colours and artificial preservatives... the worst frozen pizza on the market. why, why, why cheese flavour? san marco need to make it more clear because peeps are picking up this pizza unaware of the facts. why have real pepperoni slices and peppers but not real cheese?
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Old 18-05-2009, 14:57
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I bought a Tesco Value cheese and tomato pizza the other day but it was surprisingly nice and had real Mozzarella and Cheddar cheese on it! Not bad for 99p!!
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Old 25-05-2009, 17:33
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OMG S. Ma. pizza ( not advertising that Co.)
That was bloody disgusting

How can they make such rubbish.

SIL left the pizza at our house and as it was pepperoni I thought that will be nice. Yuk !!!
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Old 25-05-2009, 21:42
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Thanks for the heads up. Mercifully I haven't fallen prey to this - never tried a San Marco's - but at least I've been warned.
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