Saturday my eldest grandchild Lori is celebrating her 18th birthday. So my sister is making her a rather grand cake. The basis of this cake is a simple sponge cake with a custard filling and a white chocolate icing and highly decorated with butter icing. Judith is very good at making beautiful creations.

Today we went to pick up some sponge cales she had ordered. Now if you make a sponge cake yourself it really only has 3 ingredients, sugar, eggs and a small amount of flower and thats it.The bought sponge cake listed about 8 ingredients and 10 addtitives, ranging from preservatives, starches and colourd. However it was another ingredient that shocked me. It was fish oil. Now I ask you what is fish oil doing in a sponge cake?

I stood at the checkout lane and was asking the assistant the same question. Everybody started to look at me and Judith quickly told me to be quiet and what did I expect from a processed food.

I am always amazed at the way people accept these sorts of things.


Joss

thats not conspiracy, its business!!

create the demand, ( either dangerous or healthy) and then provide supply.

jocelyn, im sure you could whip a date, almond base, frozen banana base, mint leaf topping cake?

id be eating sponge cakes too if no one showed me vegan cakes, and then id be eating vegan cakes too if no one had showed me the best cakes ever. RAW VEGAN CAKES!

Joss, some people would have picked up that cake and (if they'd read the ingredients) gone 'wow, it's got fish oil! That's great! It's really good for you!' and fed extra to their kids thinking they were eating something healthy.

A few years ago buying vegan food I noticed fish oil, whey etc sneaking their way into otherwise vegan food like fruit juice and bread. These products were labelled for their beneficial omega oils/calcium/iron etc. Yuck.

Apart from the fish oil, there was 10 additives in there as well. It should have been called chemical cake.


Joss

We are constantly being told that fish is a healthy food and that fish oil is so good that its even being added to cakes etc. Just because some researcher isloated Omega 3 fatty acids in the oil from fish. This is part of the 'fractured' food mentality that is all the rage at the moment.

Yet fish is one of the most poluted foods in the world.  High heavy metal levels are found in fish and here in the West people are discouraged from eating fish and mussels from *burn Sound because of toxic wastes that are present in the water.

I lived in Exmouth during the 60's and even then, fish caught off Town Beach had parasites in their gills. Who wants to eat fish with worms writhing around in them?

Fish IS a fantastic food, for other  marine creatures.

Joss

Very, but would you even look for fish oil in a cake?

Joss

im still looking for a fish eater to go to the pet shop with me and put a couple of goldfish in a blender and make not a smoothie, but a 'goldie'.

here in thailand, like all countries, they rape the oceans and estuarys. at night time when i sleep on the best, the horizon is full of fishing boat lights.

90% of the large fish stocks (tuna, marlin, atlantic cod, etc) are gone.

to us, seafood stinks for a reason.

Louise you are beautiful spirit,and i love reading your posts,,thank you...