I was so happy the other day when I was looking over my stash of chocolate. I was reading the labels to see if HFCS was on any of them, yes on most of them, but to my amazement I had a Dove "Fairy Bunny" that did not have HFCS listed. Woohooo! I delightfully munched away on the ears of the bunny, put it back in the box and returned it back in it's hiding place. Today as I pulled the box back out to satisfy my need for chocolate I noticed that ingredient again, PGRP. I went ahead and snarfed the rest of the bunny and just as I finished it I got online to do some research about what that last ingredient on the package. PGRP.
Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate (PGPR) Popping Up In Sugar-Free, Low-Carb Chocolate by Jimmie Moore was an eye opening read about what PGPR only he didn't know when he wrote that it is showing up in their other products, not just the sugar-free products. It seems that companies are trying to cut costs by using things like HFCS and now PGPR as a replacement for some cocoa butter in their products.
UPDATE: May 4, 2008
I am studying for finals this week. I stopped by a Wallgreen's to get some junk food (bad idea on my part) to take for my classmates and myself to eat this afternoon while studying. One of the things I purchased on impulse was a Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Almonds big bar. Just for kicks I read the ingredients:
Milk Chocolate (Sugar; milk; chocolate; cocoa butter; lactose; milk fat; soy lecithin; PGPR, emulsifier; vanillin, artificial flavor); almonds (roasted in cocoa butter and/or sunflower oil).
As you will note - there is PGRP again!
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