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Show DAVIS COUNTY CLIPPER . DAVIS REFLEX JOURNAL APRIL 3. 1985 Wednesday woman THE CURIOUS SHOPPER Concerned About NutraSweet tty Sonja Heinze big box and add your own garlic The whole country is dietconscious, especially about sugar. So many things have NutraSweet in them. Yet when I eat or drink anything that contains it, 1 get sick. Please tell me just what NutraSweet is. Zella Donovan, Brigantine, N.J. NutraSweet, Equal and aspartame are all the same chemical. It was discovered about 15 years ago by a scientist at Searle Laboratories who was doing research on ulcers. He had combined two amino acids called aspartic acid and phenylalanine and touched the formulation to his lips. It was extremely. sweet, much sweeter than sugar. Further research indicated that aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sugar, and while sugar has 18 calories per teaspoon, h of aspartame has only a calorie per teaspoon. In 15 years aspartame was put through 112 tests to determine its safety. The Food and Drug Administration finally gave it a clean bill of health. As a matter of fact, asparatame is the first artificial sweetener approved by the FDA in 25 years. Aspartame can be found in a host of products such as presweetened cereals, pudding mixes, Kool Aid, whipped toppings, chewing gum and soft drinks. Heating separates the amino acids and the sweetness disappears, so it is difficult to cook with. Aspartame can also break down in soft drinks over a period of time and during storage in summer months, which is one of the reasons why theres some saccharine in soda to back it up. one-tent- non-dair- y : If you get sick from consuming anything which contains aspartame, you should notify the Food and Drug Administration, giving a detailed account of what you ate and what symptoms appeared. Many complaints about this chemical have been reported to the agency, so you would not be alone. Symptoms include to taste. HOW DO EGGS FORM? How does the shell part of a chickens egg form in its body? If the shell forms first in the hen, then how can it be fertilized by a rooster? This question has me really baffled. The shell is not the first but the last formation at the end of an amazingly complicated egg production line that involves about 23 to 26 hours of work. At birth, each female chick already has a fully formed ovary containing several thousand ova, or future yolks. As she sexually matures, one day she starts ovulating and releases a yolk from her ovary. The yolk makes its way to the oviduct, a tubelike organ. At the beginning of the trip down the oviduct, the yolk gets fertilized, providing theres some sperm available. This could be as the result of a recent mating, or sperm may have been stored in the upper part of the oviduct, where they can remain in storage for several weeks. After fertilization, the yolk continues down the oviduct where the albumen, or egg white, is formed around it. It then travels down to a place called the isthmus, where membranes are formed around it to hold the yolk and white together. Some time ago a reader wrote to this column asking if maraschino cherries were really red or were dyed that way. Paradise Products responded, telling us that the cherries are not naturally red but yellow when picked. Before they are dyed, they are first bleached in a brining solution composed of water and sulphur dioxide gas. fmowsmmmxf && 13614 BONDED BATT qultim; frames SALELDAIES ram-EG- m No. Adjustable baby to king size Includes stands and clamps Mfgr. suggested retail to $69.95 set Queen size Suggested retail to $6.98 ea. Limited quantity-- - limit 10 per customer The cherries sit in this solution for two months, bleaching away to a pale golden color. The solution at the same time has the added effect of firming up the texture of the fruit. Next the cherries are put into tanks where they are leached of the brining solution, after which they are steeped in a sugar solution for a week in tanks that contain either red food coloring or green food coloring, for some maraschinos are destined to become green. The red cherries are packed in jars in a solution of oil of bitter almond, not liqueur as they used to be, and the green ones are artificially flavored with mint. Apparently overwhelmed by all this spirited processing of a simple cherry, Mrs. John Denman of Carlisle, Pa., wrote to inquire what the ingredients of the stems were, and how they got the stems to adhere to the !KJ 70" round LACE TABLECLOTHS set 08 H0m x 108" POLYESTER TABLECLOTH LACE DAMASK Elegant to trim tablecloths Full bolts Suggested retail to $6.98 yd. 72' wide 4.4 ea. White Bloomsberg Polyester No. 5464 Suitable for 60" round tables Limited to 500 in stock Suggested retail to $15.98 ea. ea. 90" Suggested retail to $1 .29 yd. 0 yd. yd. Paradise Products advises us that the stems are natural. To keep the stems on the cherries with they are care. The special brining solution in which the cherries soak for two months to bleach has the added benefit of producing a strong stem attachment. hand-harvest- have a consumer-oriente- d question, send it to Heinze, Sunday Woman, Sonja 235 E. 45th Street, New York, NY. 10017. If you As a finishing touch, the egg is coated with wax to protect its headaches, stomach trouble, rashes, mood changes and dizziness. There is no consistent pattern. Certain individuals might have an unusual sensitivity to this product. As yet, there appears to be no evidence of serious or widespread adverse health consequences from this CHERRIES cherries. At this point its a fully formed egg without a shell, so it passes along to the uterus, or shell gland, where it remains for 18 to 20 hours while several layers of calcium salts and a mineral layer are deposited around it, becoming the shell. moisture content, and then ready to be laid. RESPONSE MARASCHINO ABOUT READERS' is TODAY'S M479 8-1- DESIGNER 8 The ILDI MARSHALL Collection sweetener. SALT IN GARLIC SALT How much salt is there in garlic The total feeling is soft. The softness of a scarf tie on top. the ot blousing that suppleness bypasses the waist for a lean look overall. Note gathered shoulders, buttoning to waist m back. Drape the scarf many different ways. For wool crepe silk, linen, knits. Printed Pattern M479 by lldi Marshall comes in Misses Sizes 8. 10. 12. 14. 16. 18 Size 12 (bust 34) takes 4 V yards salt? Lori Miller, a nutritionist with Durkee Foods, tells us that the amount of salt in those little spice jars of garlic salt varies from manufacturer to manufacturer and is considered privileged information. Miller did tell us, however, that of a teaspoon of garlic salt contains approximately 5k j mg of sodium, which is a clue. From my calculations, that would make garlic salt almost pure salt with only a hint of garlic. When you buy garlic salt, then, youre paying a hefty 16 times the price of salt. If its convenience youre after, use the handy spice jar; but if youre watching your dollars, sprinkle salt from the oi.e-quart- er Sand $3.50 for this Printed Pattern to (Name ol Your Newspaper), Reader Mail, Box 47. Woodslde, N.Y. 11377. Add 50c for postage and special handling. Print Name, Address. Zip, Style Number and Size. 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