I’m examining the
ingredients stated on the back of a 3 oz. Pepper Mill Classic Italian Dressing foil-guarded
packlet sitting on my desk at work.  Hrmm…’calcium
disodium EDTA to protect flavor’.  I
remember using EDTA to liquefy crushed mollusk shells in the laboratory for the
purpose of extracting their organic matrix.  I remember having to wear goggles to protect
my eyes from it.   I also think you’ll find EDTA in many hair
products, too.  I wonder if that’s to
protect the flavor of one’s hair? (Does red hair taste like strawberries, black
hair like currants, brown hair like chocolate, blonde hair like extract of
Britney?)…oh, and up above the EDTA listing it states ‘artificial flavor’.  So an unnatural chemical is being employed to
preserve the flavor of an artificial one! 
(That so works for the ‘extract
of Britney’.)

Hey, looking a
little deeper on the internet, maybe EDTA is a godsend after all.  Seems it’s being touted as the "Liquid-Plumr®"
of the cardiovascular system.  It’s even
an anti-venom! (Again, that so works for the ‘extract
of Britney’.)