Aldi adds soy to salt
(files.catbox.moe)
Nigger, they put the "may contain x" label basically on anything manufactured within the vicinity of x. Soy is not an ingredient of your gay ass grape salt, but it should be.
The blue BACTERIA colorant they list is 80% likely grown on a substrate containing some SOY, prior to desiccation. BACTERIA is cheaper than plant dyes.
The substrate does not need to list its components, due to it being under 1% by weight AS WELL AS being composed of legacy FDA G.R.A.S. items.
"Generally recognized as safe"
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But... food allergy laws usurp GRAS for things like peanut, nut, milk, soy... hence this purple sea salt (natural iodine for IQ) must list very trace SOY... from growing the purple bacteria.
IT MIGHT BE EXPENSIVE PURPLE SOY : (Glycine max L. Merrill)
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if not a cyano bacteria slurry , it might be number one known purple seed tissue containing approximately 2 g per 100 g from (Glycine max L. Merrill) . Its very very concentrated purple Anthocyanin, though Anthocyanins range from purple to black
2024 paper , purple soy : Glycine max L. Merrill - family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, genus Glycine and subgenus Soja
https://iadns.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fft2.376
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They maximize up to 0.99 % adulteration for this product to prevent humidity caking without resorting to SAND (traditional) or SUGAR with SAND.
TL/DR: Soy is goyslop, but salt needs something added to prevent needing a salt grinder
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https://communities.win/c/ConsumeProduct/p/13zzMPtda7/x/c/4JH5rorSAL4