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Step 3Another lovely euphemism
Confectioner's glaze, food glaze, resinous glaze, and pharmaceutical glaze are pretty names for shellac, the excretion of a certain type of beetle. While perhaps that's not so very different from honey, the difference is that shellac is harvested beetles-and-all. (Yum!)
(Confusing the issue is that a corn protein, zein, may also be labeled as "Confectioner's glaze." While I've seen a great many companies that make and use shellac-based confectioner's glaze, I have yet to see any that use a zein base. If you know of any examples of zein-based confectioner's glaze, please leave it as a comment!)
(Confusing the issue is that a corn protein, zein, may also be labeled as "Confectioner's glaze." While I've seen a great many companies that make and use shellac-based confectioner's glaze, I have yet to see any that use a zein base. If you know of any examples of zein-based confectioner's glaze, please leave it as a comment!)
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Feb 28, 2007. 7:56 PMKayakRick
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They are tumbled with mineral oil to make them shiny... saw it on "How It's Made" on the science channel. -Rick
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Feb 25, 2007. 11:21 AMPapersatan
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I am allergic to corn so I have called about products which contain 'confectioner's glaze’ and have also never found one that was corn based. Good for me, bad for vegans. I am 100% for the labeling of the sources of ingredients. Sure it would freak out a few people that there were bugs in some things, but I think most wouldn't care and it would help enormously for those of us for whom it is an issue, be it because of self imposed eating restrictions, or a food allergy.
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