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Beyond Meat Banned Ingredient List

May 1, 2023

Beyond Meat Banned Ingredients List

· Artificial sweeteners
 
· Chemical or synthetic flavorings and colorants (e.g., artificial/synthetic flavors, certified FD&C colors)
 
· Chemical or synthetic preservatives (e.g,. benzoates, BHA/BHT, EDTA, gallates, nitrates/nitrites, parabens, propionates, sorbates, sulfates/sulfites, TBHQ, and others)
 
· Chemical or synthetic emulsifiers and surfactants (e.g., esters of fatty acids, esters of mono- and diglycerides, stearoyls, and others)
 
· High-fructose corn syrup/HFCS
 
· Hydrogenated Oils
 
 
Other additives
 
· acetoin (synthetic)
 
· aluminum and ammonium compounds
 
· apricot kernel extract
 
· bentonite
 
· beta-cyclodextrin
 
· bleaching agents (e.g., bromates, peroxides)
 
· diacetyl (synthetic)
 
· charcoal powder
 
· gamma aminobutyric acid
 
· grapefruit seed extract
 
· Hawaiian black salt
 
· highly branched cyclic dextrin
 
· inosine monophosphate
 
· magnesium lactate
 
· natamycin
 
· nucleotide flavor enhancers (5'-ribonucleotides, disodium guanylate & inosinate, MAG, MSG)
 
· potassium and sodium alum
 
· silicon compounds (e.g., methyl-, dimethyl-silicone)
 
· sodium aluminum phosphate
 
· soy leghemoglobin
 
· sucrose esters (e.g., hexa-, hepta-, octa-esters of sucrose)
 
· stannous chloride
 
· thiodipropionic acid

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