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[novamc1]

If your favorite name-brand foods from big food companies  taste slightly different..........it's the supply chain  shortage, of course.

A long story in the New York Times recently described how food manufacturers are busy in their kitchens trying to replicate the same flavors, texture, etc. with different ingredients  because they can't get the usual ones on time or at all.

One substitute mentioned was using cornstarch instead of the almost nonexistent tapioca.

Just another example of "engineered food", I guess.

[4kitties]

Just another reason for me to avoid processed food........

[geezerette]

I've suspected this for a while.

I also am pretty sure they're doing the same with pet food.  At least according to my picky eaters.

[Kachina624]

I don't consider substituting corn starch for tapioca to be much of a big deal.  I'd rather they did that than remove a product I use from the market.  I'm betting most of these changes are very minor.

[Forbidden Fruit]

@novamc1 

I have not read the article but they are already using cricket flour in certain foods.  You know, "good protein." 

[cookie16]

@Forbidden Fruit - please expand on your statement.  I am trying to understand cricket flour.  I know I have been killing crickets who moved into my welcome mat in fear of them hopping into our house.  I can't even imagine eating them.

[Mom2Dogs]

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@cookie16 wrote:

@Forbidden Fruit - please expand on your statement.  I am trying to understand cricket flour.  I know I have been killing crickets who moved into my welcome mat in fear of them hopping into our house.  I can't even imagine eating them.

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I have noticed on social media people circling ingredients on well known products...cricket flour is one of the 'new' ingredients.  I am a label reader for sugar and carbs, now I will have to read further down the list, ugh.

[Forbidden Fruit]

@cookie16 

Yes, but I will be short because it makes my stomach turn.  I saw a news story about cricket farms being the wave of the future.  They had the crickets in a barn like structure and describing how they are "milled" into flour.  There are companies putting the cricket flour in chips. The cost was insane (because the crickets have to be in a air conditioned controlled environment) and the crickets will replace the protein we will get from meat.  I'm not joking.  Several groups are pushing this.  You can search cricket protein and you can buy it from Amazon (and others I am sure). Don't hate me, it's out there and easy to find.

[Forbidden Fruit]

@Mom2Dogs 

I have not seen it on social media-not on it (except here)-- but what I saw was on "mainstream" meaning they are getting the public conditioned to seeing it as common. Nicole Kidman even did a PSA regarding eating bugs as meals.  

[chrystaltree]

They've always done. Hence the ingredients that look more like scientific formulas than food.  It's just that they are doing it more now.