[Cheese] A story about draining whey

[JOHN MURREN]

Who's jumping to conclusions?  Isn't it a good thing that corporate America is finding another use for whey?  And I disagree that, in this case, it's only because of the sugar; it's very well known that a great deal of protein gets thrown away with the whey, and these guys love being able to note the added protein content on their label that the whey provides.  I also doubt that the "whey problem" is as significant as you state, as long as America still has a pork industry, why would they need to dump it?
  jm

Jack Schmidling <arf at mc.net> wrote:
  JOHN MURREN wrote:

> I just saw on The Food
> Network that whey is the key ingredient in todays' popular energy
> bars.

Before you jump to conclusions, do not assume that they use it for any 
reason other than the bottom line. Whey contains a good deal of sugar 
and as it can be had for the cost of picking it up at cheese factories, 
it is a very inexpensive source for sugar, i.e. "energy" for energy bars.

The cheese industry has spent almost as much time and money trying to 
find uses for or disposing of whey as they spend on cheese making. It 
is a plague to the industry, especially since environmental laws started 
preventing the dumping of it into rivers.

js

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