Probably one of my favorite things on this whole summary is Nutella , I’ve been raised on this chocolatey delight, so let’s see what damages I have caused with my mass consumption of it.
-Nutella has, just like Nido and many other things , Soy Lecitin in it which again means the soybean had to through many processes (such as oil extraction) to become it’s current form in Nutella. This means oild was most likely used in production.
-Nutella also uses Skimmed milk powder which means, again this ingredient had to through a massive process derived from milk to become skim milk powder (the same one that Nido had to go through, remember the diagram on my last post? Yeah, I thought you did.)
-Next ingredient is the Fat-reduced cocoa powder which clearly has been processed as powder does not grow on trees!! Cocoa powder is made by a hydraulic press or broma process which seperates the bean into its powder form as well as its butter form. I can only imagine that these systems of processing require oil to be maintained and/or to function.
-Then we have Whey powder. Whey is the liquid obtained when milk has been curdled and strained to make cheese. The liquid is then refined and processed to become whey powder. So the process of whey to be created and then re-processed to become a powder probably consumed a lot of energy to make so again oil use is suspected.
-Next ingredient on the list is Vanilin flavourant. This flavouring agent most likely has oil in it as most flavourants do.
-Next item, vegetable oil which are lipids that been extracted from plant seeds and are, well, oil themselves. Clearly here there is oil use!
-Finally there is sugar. I am not sure what kind of sugar this might be, but let’s pretend it’s white sugar. White sugar is derived from sugar sugar cane plants. It goes through a process called affination to become it’s final form which again, I suspect, would require oil to do.
On top of all the ingredient the Nutella was imported from Italy, so it had to be most likely flown over to meet it’s finally destination.More oil.