reid@Glacier.ARPA (03/17/85)
> No, no, no - the yellow coloring in Cheddar cheese and many other foods > is not achiote but carotene (or sometimes "keratin" - same stuff, I > believe). Phil Kos > The Johns Hopkins Hospital > ..seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!osiris!phil Must be regional differences, then. I ran a large cheese coop for many years, and spent a lot of time talking to the cheese distributors about ingredients; I have also toured two cheese plants (S&R and Black Diamond). Achiote was the coloring of choice, or at least it was in 1974-1980. -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA