What do they think, they're too good for us?
Here are the ingredients to a little heart-shaped box of chocolates a co-worker gave to each of us at work today:
Chocolate (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, whole milk, butterfat, soy lecithin/an emulsifier, vanilla and vanillian/an artificial flavor), sugar, corn syrup, coconut with sodium metabisulfate, condensed milk, dairly cream, brown sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa powder, salt, soy lecithin/an emulsifier, invertase (an enzyme), natural and artifical flavors, and tocopherols (a natural antioxidant)
Full Version: Why isn't Russell Stover kosher?
All the better chocolates are non-kosher. 
(That doesn't include Russell Stover.)
(That doesn't include Russell Stover.)
QUOTE (Goldfish @ Feb 14 2008, 12:37 PM) 
What do they think, they're too good for us?
Here are the ingredients to a little heart-shaped box of chocolates a co-worker gave to each of us at work today:
Chocolate (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, whole milk, butterfat, soy lecithin/an emulsifier, vanilla and vanillian/an artificial flavor), sugar, corn syrup, coconut with sodium metabisulfate, condensed milk, dairly cream, brown sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa powder, salt, soy lecithin/an emulsifier, invertase (an enzyme), natural and artifical flavors, and tocopherols (a natural antioxidant)
Here are the ingredients to a little heart-shaped box of chocolates a co-worker gave to each of us at work today:
Chocolate (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, whole milk, butterfat, soy lecithin/an emulsifier, vanilla and vanillian/an artificial flavor), sugar, corn syrup, coconut with sodium metabisulfate, condensed milk, dairly cream, brown sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa powder, salt, soy lecithin/an emulsifier, invertase (an enzyme), natural and artifical flavors, and tocopherols (a natural antioxidant)
Too good for us, uh I dunno- I'd prefer Ghirardelli or Godiva or Ornat (Israeli) - all of which are kosher. (Schmerling's if you want Swiss)
If you go by ingredient kosher, I don't know if you'd have too much of a problem. Some of the chemicals do need hashgachot. Is the item produced in the US?
eta: Kantrowitz says Russel Stover used to be kosher.
QUOTE (Tova @ Feb 14 2008, 12:46 PM)
Too good for us, uh I dunno- I'd prefer Ghirardelli or Godiva or Ornat (Israeli) - all of which are kosher. (Schmerling's if you want Swiss)
How can you prefer one thing over something else that you've never tasted?
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If you go by ingredient kosher
I don't. Who does, these days?
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Is the item produced in the US?
Kansas, I think.
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eta: Kantrowitz says Russel Stover used to be kosher.
What happened? A falling out about money, I bet. *sigh*
QUOTE (Goldfish @ Feb 14 2008, 12:58 PM)
How can you prefer one thing over something else that you've never tasted?
If I can't have one thing, I'd prefer something else.
QUOTE (Goldfish @ Feb 14 2008, 12:58 PM)
I don't. Who does, these days?
This is h.com, you can probably find at least 1 person.
QUOTE (Goldfish @ Feb 14 2008, 12:37 PM)
What do they think, they're too good for us?
Here are the ingredients to a little heart-shaped box of chocolates a co-worker gave to each of us at work today:
Chocolate (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, whole milk, butterfat, soy lecithin/an emulsifier, vanilla and vanillian/an artificial flavor), sugar, corn syrup, coconut with sodium metabisulfate, condensed milk, dairly cream, brown sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa powder, salt, soy lecithin/an emulsifier, invertase (an enzyme), natural and artifical flavors, and tocopherols (a natural antioxidant)
Here are the ingredients to a little heart-shaped box of chocolates a co-worker gave to each of us at work today:
Chocolate (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, whole milk, butterfat, soy lecithin/an emulsifier, vanilla and vanillian/an artificial flavor), sugar, corn syrup, coconut with sodium metabisulfate, condensed milk, dairly cream, brown sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa powder, salt, soy lecithin/an emulsifier, invertase (an enzyme), natural and artifical flavors, and tocopherols (a natural antioxidant)
Mm, chocolate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertase
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Invertase (EC 3.2.1.26 ) (systematic name: beta-fructofuranosidase) is a sucrase enzyme. It catalyzes the hydrolysis (breakdown) of sucrose (table sugar) to fructose and glucose, usually in the form of inverted sugar syrup.
For industrial use, invertase is usually derived from yeast. It is also synthesized by bees, who use it to make honey from nectar.
Invertase is expensive, so when fructose is required, it may be preferable to make it from glucose using glucose isomerase.
For industrial use, invertase is usually derived from yeast. It is also synthesized by bees, who use it to make honey from nectar.
Invertase is expensive, so when fructose is required, it may be preferable to make it from glucose using glucose isomerase.
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