Pimento paste stuffed olives.

[Emw30]

Just wondering if pimento paste is compliant. Its in the green olives. It says pimento paste but then in the ingredients it says pimento stuffing (water,minced pimento, sodium alginate and guar gum). I have had a few of these since day 1, I'm on day 5. I thought they were ok. Hopefully I am right! Thanks. 

[SugarcubeOD]

Sure are!

(I found this on google and thought it was interesting).  For others: As always, check your labels because pimento can be made with non compliant ingredients.

 

Pimentos start out in life as a variety of chili pepper called “cherry peppers.” Small and red (hence the name), they are sweeter than bell peppers and very mild, with the lowest Scoville scale rating of all the chilies.

The pimento’s main purpose in life appears to be as a garnish, either in the center of a green olive or mixed into cheese. Green olives fresh off the tree are very bitter in flavor, so they are traditionally cured in brine before packaging. Even then their flavor is more palatable when a touch of something else is added, and in the U.S., the most popular “something” is pimento.

Until the early 1960s, pimentos were sliced and then stuffed into olives by hand (presumably by patient workers with long, taper-y fingers). The Sadrym company of Seville, Spain, introduced the first automatic olive-stuffing machine in 1962, and is the largest manufacturer of such equipment today. In fact, most pimento-pushing machines are still made in Spain, despite the fact that the favorite olive insert in that country is anchovy.

The most modern machines use a mixture of mashed pimentos combined with a gelatin mixture that is formed into large sheets and then sliced into strips and fed into the stuffer on large rolls. The stuffing machine—which must be very precisely calibrated—first cuts a plug the size of the pit in one end of the olive and pushes the pit out using an X-shaped punch on the opposite end of the fruit. Then the pitted olive moves to the next station, where a strip of pimento is cut and injected into the cavity.

[Emw30]

Thank you so much. I was having minor anxiety lol. Appreciate the feedback! Have a great day. 

[NoMoreCrunchyCravings]

@SugarcubeOD Thank you! Makes me enjoy eating the pimento-stuffed olives so much more knowing all the history and production that goes into them! Cool reply, I love reading stuff like this!