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by matt_the_bass 2868 days ago
I think there is a value to this not because I want to replicate your product but because I want to know more about what’s in the food. For examples, what are the ingredients for “spices” and “natural flavors”?

I have a couple of reasons:

1. I want to know what crap i put into my body. If I’m going to eat crap, I want it to be my choice and I want to k ow what’s in my food.

2. I have a kid with severe peanut and tree but allergy. 1st such in our family. Now I have to read every package. I can’t tell you how frustrating that is.

On a related topic, you may wish to consider including open sourcing your cross contamination prevention policies (if any) so that those with food allergies can have a clear picture of if they can eat your food safely. If my wife and I are not confident in the (lack of) cross contamination, we don’t let our child eat the food even if there are no tree nuts or peanuts listed.

Before having a kid with such allergies, I thought so many parents were over reacting. I mean, few people my age have them, so it wasn’t a thing when I was a kid. It worries me why the rates of food allergies are so drastically higher. I suspect it has to do with eating more processed foods. I’m not opposed to processed foods, but I’d like to know if/when I’m eating them and what they are.

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Thanks, hadn't thought of that angle before.

Yes would release all that information (basically what we know, we want our consumers to know, if they desire)

eg- agree on natural flavours, thats a big pet peeve of mine (I have no idea whether it's vegan or not, most cases am forced into a decision i'm not happy with)

Oh good point. I hadn’t thought about vegan/not-vegan question. Though I eat a lot of vegan foods I’m not vegan, but I could see this being important to those that are.

You could conceivably extend this idea to listing sources of ingredients for those that are concerned with ingredient sustainability.

From my point of view the idea would not be to try and replicate the product but to have greater trust in it.

Understand, and yes plan to share source for ingredients, where I can find them out myself. Thanks