Silkworm poop as cheese whitener?
Doug Yanega
dyanega at pop.ucr.edu
Tue Mar 30 17:33:52 EST 1999
The subject says it all. I got an urgent question a few minutes ago as to
whether it was true that silkworm feces, which is high in chlorophyll, was
used as a whitening agent during cheese manufacturing. This seems a little
too weird to be an urban myth, but I'd like to confirm it one way or the
other.
Doug "getting the hang of it" Yanega Dept. of Entomology
Entomology Research Museum Univ. of California
Riverside, CA 92521 909-787-4315
http://www.icb.ufmg.br/~dyanega/
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is
the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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