What's Inside The 26-Ingredient School Lunch Burger? Originally
published on Mon April 2, 2012 11:23 pm Thiamine mononitrate,
disodium inosinate, pyridoxine hydrochloride. Why are these
hard-to-pronounce ingredients added to everything from a burger
served in schools to veggie burgers in the frozen food aisle of
the grocery store? We try to answer that on this edition of Tiny
Desk Kitchen. It turns out the answers are as varied as the
ingredients. But as we yearn to know what's in our food and how
it's made, these kinds of ingredients with unfamiliar names make
people suspicious. "For me, it's just a huge red flag," says
Ryan Lonnett, a parent of children in Fairfax County, Va.,
schools. He's an advocate with the group Real Food For Kids.
When he looks at the ingredient list of the burger served in his
kids' cafeteria, he says things like disodium inosinate stand
out. "Since I don't know what it is, I'd rather not put it in my
body," Lonnett says. RFFK wants Fairfax County schools to phase
out or reformulate