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6.11.2007 12:00 AM

List Of Non-Organic Ingredients In 'Organic' Foods

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By Dan Shapley

Here is a list of the 38 farm products that could, under a USDA proposal, be used in foods that bear the USDA certified “organic” label, even though these ingredients are not produced organically. For more on this story, click here.
  • Natural sausage casings (processed intestines)
  • Celery powder
  • Chia
  • Colors derived from these 19 extracts, juices and spices: Annatto extract, beet juice, beta-carotene derived from carrots, black currant juice, black/Purple carrot juice, blueberry juice, carrot juice, cherry juice, chokecherry-aronia juice, elderberry juice, grape juice, grape skin extract, paprika, pumpkin juice, purple potato juice, red cabbage extract, red radish extract, saffron extract and turmeric extract.
  • Dillweed oil
  • Fish oil
  • Fructooligosaccharides
  • Frozen Galangal
  • Gelatin
  • Hops
  • Inulin enriched with oligofructose
  • Konjac flour
  • Frozen lemongrass
  • Unbleached orange shellac
  • Chipotle Chili Peppers
  • Rice Starch
  • Sweet Potato Starch
  • Turkish bay leaves
  • Wakame seaweed
  • Whey protein concentrate
Source: USDA
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