Altering Food Recipe is the new trend

I am sure you are all fed up, pent up and utterly disgusted with the China's Baby Milk fiasco. That has lead to many boycotting anything from China locally and companies producing and using milk products have suffered lost of sales.

The reality is China's Baby Milk fiasco is only a black spot of a more widespread trend.

Major food makers have been quietly altering the recipes for their products. For candy, dairy products, and a variety of other food products, fillers have been added and cheaper ingredients are being used as substitutes in order to cut costs.

Hershey's, as one example, is using vegetable oil for a portion of the cocoa butter traditionally used in some of its chocolates, a move which has led to some complaints.Spice maker McCormick & Co. is now supplying food companies with cheaper spices. They are providing Mexican oregano instead of the pricier Mediterranean variety, and garlic concentrate instead of garlic cloves, which are heavier and costlier to ship. (Sources: Wall Street Journal August 26, 2008)

Locally, Nestle has replaced dairy milk as a base of their popular Milo many years ago with palm oil. So the Milo that you grew up loving is now one that leave an oily aftertaste. The retail price went up but the quality isn't the same!

So i suggest one take a closer look at the quality of materials in the products you have been buying, rather than just checking to see if it is Made in China.