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Replacement food are foods that resemble another in appearance and taste, but consist of other ingredients. It is occasionally used the word substitute food or fachsprachlich surrogate. In English it is called a food substitute or use the German loan-word replacement. This meaning is not edible food imitation, eg Shokuhin - Sanpuru.

Reason for replacement food in times of need was the lack of availability. A classic example is margarine than butter substitute. Today, there is usually a cost savings to the manufacturer. Consumer protection organizations use this occasionally the term food plagiarism or food counterfeiting and my use of substitutes with borderline identification on the label. This term is, however, so piracy also used for the imitation of the design or a registered design of branded products in the food industry.

There are also reasons which lie with the consumer, such as food intolerance and vegetarianism.

Often the originals in the Food Act are precisely defined and are conceptually protected so that no labels are chosen that lead the consumer to confusion with the real product. For 1898/87 sees the EC regulation front of a term protection for milk, whey, cream, butter, buttermilk, cheese, yogurt and kefir. Exceptions are traditional terms such as coconut milk, chocolate and peanut butter dar. soy products do not fall under these exemptions. § 11 LFGB prohibits generally to bring counterfeit or substandard food without adequate labeling in the traffic.

Examples

  • Muckefuck - coffee substitute without caffeine, mainly from cereal
  • Cheese surrogate (English imitation cheese ) - mixture of animal or vegetable fats, emulsifiers, colorings and flavorings
  • Form of meat - meat residues which are pressed into larger pieces of meat. Also pizza ham, a ham faux meat cubes, embedded in a starch gel
  • Surimi - similar shape meat, but fish remains
  • German Scat - colored lumpfish roe
  • Chocolate substitute - Schlager- Süßtafel, Creck and other products that do not have the prescribed according to Regulation cocoa cocoa
  • Margarine - an industrially produced butter substitute made from animal and vegetable fats.
  • Invert sugar - a substantially made ​​of honey invert sugar substitute.
  • Plockwurst (also garlic salami) is mostly used as a substitute for salami on the pizza
  • Milk substitutes, such as Soy drinks - a herbal substitute for cow's milk
  • Meat substitutes, such as Seitan (wheat protein ), textured soy or Quorn ( Pilzferment )
Cocoa butter Inverted sugar syrup Soy milk Meat analogue Digital Object Identifier
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