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| Danish Cinnamon Rolls Too Spicy for EU Rules |
| 2014-01-11 |
| [An Nahar] Easy on the cinnamon! That advice from Denmark's food authority has rankled pastry chefs whose cinnamon rolls were found to violate the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's spice rules. The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration recently discovered that Danish cinnamon rolls and twists contained more coumarin -- a chemical compound in the most common variety of cinnamon -- than EU rules allow. Excessive intake of coumarin can cause liver damage. So the agency asked Danish bakers to reduce the amount of cinnamon they sprinkle in the dough for sweet treats like the "kanelsnegel" (cinnamon roll) and "kanelstang" (cinnamon twist). Danish bakers protested, saying the EU limit is too strict, and would make it hard, if not impossible, to make their cherished pastries. "A grown man like me could eat like 10 'kanelsnegle' every day for several years and not even get near the limit of what's dangerous to my liver," said Anders Grabow, a front man for the Danish Bakers' Association. "I would probably get too much sugar in my body before that." The EU limit for so-called "fine baked goods" is set at 15 milligrams of coumarin per kilogram of pastry. The Danish agency found last year that more than half of the 74 food samples it took from bakeries, supermarkets and importers contained more coumarin than that. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Nothing like a central planner telling a baker how to cook. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2014-01-11 19:07 |
| #1 Hey Anders Grabow,this babe has overdosed on kanelsnegel and kanelstang, and she will likely name you as a co-defendant in her lawsuit for inducing liver damage. How do you like that Anders, you little Apfel-Knödel you ? |
| Posted by: Sonny McGurque8923 2014-01-11 02:07 |