What is Shellac?
Question:
When speaking of food,
what is shellac?
Most people know
of shellac on wood, but do not know that it is also used
on food since it is disguised on food labels as
“confectioners glaze”, “candy
glaze”, “lac resin”, “wax”
or “shellac wax”.
Answer:
Shellac is actually the
sticky secretion from East Asian lac […]