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What Is Food Glaze?

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Does anybody know what "food glaze" on an ingredient label is made from? I have MANY food sensitivities, including celiac disease, so would really like to find out. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find it by googling or by searching the FDA website.

Thanks.

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Do a Google search on "Confectioners Glaze" - you will find a lot of sites that have the ingredients of various confectioner's glazes. Ingredients depend on what the glaze is on: chocolate is very common (expensive chocolates and filled chocolates).

I got the ingredients of "confectioners glaze" for Raisenettes and it had no gluten, but I don't know what else it had in it.

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Does anybody know what "food glaze" on an ingredient label is made from? I have MANY food sensitivities, including celiac disease, so would really like to find out. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find it by googling or by searching the FDA website.

Thanks.

Interesting, this is what I found about "food glaze":

"Pharmaceutical glaze is an alcohol based solution of various types of Food Grade Shellac. It is also known as confectioners glaze, resinous glaze, pure food glaze and natural glaze. Since the primary ingredient carries a negative connotation, these are euphemismistically derived phrases to what is described in the manufacturing as beetle juice due to it derivation from the lac insect Coccus lacca.

This is used by the drug and nutritional supplement industry as a coating material for tablets and capsules. It serves to improve the products appearance, extend shelf life and protect it from moisture, as well as provide a solid finishing film for preprint coatings. It also serves to mask unpleasant odors and aid in the swallowing of the tablet.

The Shellac coating is insoluable in stomach acid and may make the tablet difficult for the body to break down or assimilate. For this reason it can also be used as an ingredient in time-released, sustained or delayed action pills. Shellac may have as much acetone as an equivalent amount of nail polish. The product is listed on the FDA's inactive ingredient list and has been accepted as safe.

A competitive nonanimal-based product is Zein which is a corn protein."

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