The company did not comment on whether consumers would notice any difference after the removal of the ingredient, which can be used to make food shiny or more brightly coloured.
"You can't help fall in love with the location," she smiles.I asked if being utterly off any beaten tracks has been a problem.
"Why wouldn't you come here?" she replied."There's no parking issues, no traffic jams, no pollution, it's beautiful."It literally sets the scene - and that's what makes us different."
Her landlord is Tom Collins or 'Farmer Tom' as she calls him.He runs a traditional mixed farm, with cattle and pigs, alongside fields growing wheat, barley, peas and beans.
But his old Cotswold farm buildings are now too small for modern farming, and he has let them out to Mrs Stead and several other small firms.
"Without diversification we'd really be struggling. I don't know a single farm business that isn't diversified," he said.But the burning of these forests emits huge amounts of CO2 – adding to warming rather than limiting it.
In 2023-24, the Amazon experiencedand the natural warming
Many fires are started deliberately to clear land for agriculture, making it difficult to disentangle the two.But the drought provided ideal conditions for fires to spread out of control, with Brazil and Bolivia most badly affected.