Gefen Paprika is way more RED than others, is it natural?

amother

OP ↓

Yesterday at 12:56 pm

Gefen Paprika is way more RED than other Paprikas,.

Is it natural, or do they add a color enhancer/chemical?

Mine looks even more red than in the photo.

chocolate moose

Yesterday at 2:06 pm

what do the ingredients list? maybe it's from red peppers.

amother

Nectarine

Yesterday at 2:15 pm

Paprika is ground red pepper. Maybe they use darker red peppers?

amother

↑ OP ↓

Yesterday at 2:31 pm

chocolate moose wrote:

what do the ingredients list? maybe it's from red peppers.

One word: Paprika.

amother

Lightcoral ↓

Yesterday at 2:34 pm

amother OP wrote:

One word: Paprika.

There's your answer 😀

amother

↑ OP

Yesterday at 2:49 pm

amother Lightcoral wrote:

There's your answer 😀

I hope its accurate, bec legally food manufacturers can add tiny precentages of chemiclas without stating it on the label, if its under a certain percentage.

sub

Yesterday at 2:57 pm

The Israeli paprika is also very red. Perhaps they are using the same source.
I find it much better when it is darker.

amother

Magenta

Yesterday at 3:06 pm

amother OP wrote:

I hope its accurate, bec legally food manufacturers can add tiny precentages of chemiclas without stating it on the label, if its under a certain percentage.

My rav says that isn’t true 🤷‍♀️

chanatron1000

Yesterday at 3:07 pm

The drying process can darken the bright red peppers differently depending on the temperature.

amother

Amaryllis

Yesterday at 3:10 pm

I believe there is some dye added bc their brand stains

amother

↑ Lightcoral

Yesterday at 3:28 pm

amother Magenta wrote:

My rav says that isn’t true 🤷‍♀️

What does your Rav have to do with this? That's the law

Hashem_Yaazor

Yesterday at 3:41 pm

amother Amaryllis wrote:

I believe there is some dye added bc their brand stains

Henna is natural and stains
Turmeric is natural and stains
You don't need to add artificial dye to have staining issues

tigerwife

Yesterday at 3:43 pm

amother Amaryllis wrote:

I believe there is some dye added bc their brand stains

Raw, juicy red pepper also stains.

amother

Mintgreen ↓

Yesterday at 3:44 pm

amother Magenta wrote:

My rav says that isn’t true 🤷‍♀️

It absolutely 1,000% is true unfortunately.

My daughter is on a very strict diet for her health, and it is a well known fact by thousands of people on the facebook group for this diet, that store bought foods made in Israel or Europe are much easier, because their laws require every ingredient be listed, as opposed to USA laws, that allow ingredients under a certain percent, as well as anything considered a "processing aide" not to be listed on the label.

If we buy any American made food, we need to first query the food company for confirmation that theres nothing added to the food but not listed on the label, to be safe.

2 examples I myself experienced personally:

1) Bare apple chips list only "apples" as the ingredient, or "apples and cinnamon". When I inquired from the company, the first rep said it was only what was listed on the label, but when I pressed further about "any processing aides", she went to ask someone else and came back, sounding surprised, saying that "actually it turns out we also use sunflower oil as a processing aide". So really, the ingredients are apples and sunflower oil-and in Europe it would be listed as such.
I once told this story over (it may have been here, actually) and someone responded that she couldnt believe it, she is allergic to sunflower and kept getting allergic reactions and not knowing why, because she hadnt eaten sunflower-BUT she ate lots of Bare apple chips. There's her answer.

2) people on this diet know to be extra careful with honey, because even "100% pure" honey can have small percents of added ingredients, and especially common is corn syrup.
So in trying to avoid calling companies, I thought I would be clever, and I called the OU to ask, being that they really know whats in everything, if they can recommend a honey that has nothing added to it -the rep said he cant because he legally signed a contract or whatever, that he is bound to secrecy, so he cant tell me which companies have added corn syrup and which dont. But he did confirm that I was correct in my understanding, and he said he can think of a few companies off hand that the OU certifies, that are "100 % pure honey" and actually have corn syrup thats not listed.
SO I thought I would be extra smart and asked if I could assume all pesachdik honey is free from corn syrup and he said actually no, because the amount present can sometimes be considered batel, in terms of kitniyos.

So yeah.
Take it from someone who knows and deals with this aggravation daily...ingredient labels mean nothing.

(Can someone push RFK to change this?...)

amother

Moccasin

Yesterday at 3:48 pm

amother Mintgreen wrote:

SO I thought I would be extra smart and asked if I could assume all pesachdik honey is free from corn syrup and he said actually no, because the amount present can sometimes be considered batel, in terms of kitniyos.

So yeah.
Take it from someone who knows and deals with this aggravation daily...ingredient labels mean nothing.

(Can someone push RFK to change this?...)

That would have never occurred to me 🤔 they can use small amounts of kitniyos for pesach ingredients?

amother

↑ Mintgreen

Yesterday at 3:50 pm

amother Moccasin wrote:

That would have never occurred to me 🤔 they can use small amounts of kitniyos for pesach ingredients?

I am not an expert, perhaps every kashrus agency holds differently. All I know is he said I cant assume OU pesachdik honey is free of corn syrup...and he said something about being able to rely on kitniyos being batel at a certain amount. At which point I tuned out lol

banana123

Today at 4:32 pm

amother Amaryllis wrote:

I believe there is some dye added bc their brand stains

All Israeli paprika stains.

BadTichelDay

Today at 5:33 pm

banana123 wrote:

All Israeli paprika stains.

Yes. And the color is also typical for Israeli paprika. Even nature shop brands or the ones with top hechsherim are like that. What color is US paprika? Scratching Head

Brit in Israel

Today at 5:43 pm

My kids have stained tops from eating fresh red pepper.
Of course dried pepper grounded can stain and be bright.

Elfrida

Today at 5:53 pm

amother Moccasin wrote:

That would have never occurred to me 🤔 they can use small amounts of kitniyos for pesach ingredients?

In Israel you can't buy raisins or dried cranberries for Pesach with a mehadrin Ashkenazi hashgacha. They're very lightly coated in (I think) cottonseed oil, to stop them sticking together, and that's considered kitniyot. You can buy them imported, with an OU hashgacha.