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From a Hostess consumer response representative:
The shortening ingredients noted on our labels are: vegetable (may be soybean and/or canola and/or cottonseed and/or palm oil) and beef shortening. "Beef Fat" when noted, is a very small trace used in the creamy fillings of our cakes for taste. Also, it is used in a trace amount in the vegetable oil frying medium.
Gelatin, when noted on the ingredient legend is pork sourced. Gelatin is used in the squiggle of our Hostess® and Dolly Madison® cupcakes and also in the Hostess® SnoBalls.
I used to eat Ding Dongs and Twinkies as a kid. Makes me wish I hadn't - is beef fat really needed in a filling?
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Hostess and Dolly Madison Products
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2 comments:
Wow - I love how they say the beef fat is "for taste" - that's not the taste I'm going for when I think of creamy filling.
Sadly, I've known about this for years - my dad used to work for the above companies. It's nice that they let you know it's in the frying medium too, though!
wow.."for taste.." UGH!!! Thanks for the post.
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