I got this information off a vegemite website. There is also some information about vegemite's brothers and sisters, Marmite and Promite. Amazed by vegemite, Open Eyes Josh Spurlock Ingredients: Vegemite: (Kraft General Foods NZ Ltd) Yeast extract, salt, malt extract, colour(caramel), vegetable flavours, vitamins (niacin, thiamine, riboflavin) Marmite: (Sanatarium Health Food Company, NZ) Yeast, sugar, salt, wheatgerm extract, mineral salt (508) colour(caramel), herbs, spices, vitamins (niacin, thiamin, riboflavin) It's also got a small note under the ingredients: "100% vegetarian" (but then, what do you expect from a company owned by the 7th Day Adventist church?) Promite: (Masterfoods of Australia) Vegetable protein extract, sugar, yeast, natural colour(caramel) salt, thickener (Wheat starch), emulsifier (Glycerol monostearate) spices, added vitamins, water More than you ever wanted to know about Vegemite. � Here's link to a huge vegemite site. It's Australian Vegemite, not good old kiwi vegemite, but we'll let it pass. Alan Brown writes on: Cultural variations in Marmite From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kennelmeister) Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,soc.culture.new-zealand Subject: Re: Cultural variations in Marmite? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew McRae) writes: (The main differences between Marmite and Vegemite are that the latter is Australian and tastes awful.) Careful - you're treading on almost religious issues here. There are 3 types of yeast extract in NZ/Australia - vegemite, marmite and promite They're basically all the same, BUT. � Marmite is sweeter than vegemite � Promite is sweeter then marmite � They're all extremely salty tasting. Speaking as somone brought up on vegemite, I find the difference between vege/marmite is that marmite has a more pronounced caramel taste. (That's what the colouring is, BTW) Vegemite eaters will eat marmite at a pinch, but marmite eaters tend not to be able to stomach vegemite. Promite is a relatively recent introduction to me, and I've never met anyone who's eaten it as a kid. It leads to a wierd situation where we have 2 large jars of vegemite/marmite in the house, plus a small one of promite for occasional use. One last thing. Due to a couple of recessive genes I can't taste bitter, so my perception may be skewed a bit. (Bitrex? What's that?) (Favourite drink - bitters and tonic. LOTS of bitters...:-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kennelmeister) writes: Following up on my own posts.... Other countries' versions may vary.... Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com _______ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks!" RTKB&G4JC! Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rangernet.org
