Kraft Thousand Island
683 days agoIn my attempt to improve my diet, I have started to eat more raw vegetables like salads. And one thing I found out about vegetables is that if they are uncooked, they can taste pretty bad. Not like horrible, but vegetables and herbs have this bitterness which I find extremely off-putting. Worst of all, after eating raw vegetables for a while, they all taste the same. I guess perhaps the vegetables start to numb the taste-buds and we find everything taste the same. But I am not giving up taking care of my health. So, I bought myself Thousand Island Salad dressing. No, I didn’t get those fancy Italian salad dressing but just plain old common Thousand Island. Cheap and pretty tasty. Thousand Island gives foods a nice twang but at the same time, does not over-power the vegetables like vinegar does. Oh, everyone here should have tasted Thousand Island before right?
I bought bottle of Kraft Thousand Island from Sheng Siong. It was like most of my purchases, on offer. Luckily I live nearby 3 local supermarkets – NTUC, Sheng Siong and Shop N Save. Quite a good location if you are into buying groceries like an aunty.
Here you have the bottle of Kraft Thousand Island dressing. Yes, it is kind of pinkish. This is due to the tomato ketchup in the Thousand Island dressing. Oh, you didn’t know that Thousand Island dressing is actually just mainly mayonnaise and tomato ketchup.
Pathetic label in the front. But this is cheap stuff as compared to the other brands at Sheng Siong, so we must forgive them.
Oh no, it is about to due. Well, I just have to finish the Thousand Island dressing fast.
Hmmm….the ingredients are soybean oil, tomato puree, vinegar, sugar, chopped pickles, salt, water, santhan gum, dried onions, critic acid, polysorbate 60, propylene glycol alginate, spice, lactic acid, mustard flour, natural flavour, oleoresin tumeric, sorbic acid and calcium disodium edta. Well, to make mayonnaise, you will primarily need oil and vinegar to get a stable emulsion. Of course, they add other spices to increase the flavour. And look at the nutritional facts. Seems like I am adding unhealthy fats to my healthy raw vegetable diet. A bit stupid, don’t you think?
I am just wondering where is this Thousand Island dressing manufactured? In the United States? Not very likely since the prices of Made in the USA products are usually very high. But I can’t find where this is manufactured anywhere on the bottle. Weird.
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