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I can't find any reference to nitrogen used in Hellman's mayonnaise. Do you perhaps mean that they fill the airspace at the top of the jar with nitrogen to displace oxygen and increase shelf-life? I believe that's a very safe and common practice in food packaging.
Noooo! Nitrogen is poison! If you breathe pure nitrogen, you'll die!
inb4 libtard scientists saying "hurr durr air is 70% nitrogen" yeah right LIARS
No, not at all. That I'd have no issue with. Now, Hellman's makes a number of different variants IIRC, and I can't tell you which particular one this was as I haven't bought it since, but: I mean 'pumped' as in 'foamy' or perhaps a better term would be 'areated'. Filled with visible bubbles of some gas - I don't actually know whether it was nitrogen or something else, but nitrogen would make sense due to the same reasons you pointed out. I suspect it was done as a shrinkflation strategy to sell the same apparent volume of product, whilst saving on material production inputs. It certainly did nothing beneficial for the texture. I don't really want my "mayonnaise" to feel like poorly whipped cream.
I've seen the same thing done for some cream cheeses, and likely for the same reason. I don't buy those more than once either.
Yeah, I've seen that kind of whipped cream cheese as well. They're always trying some new gimmick. Which I guess on one hand is nice because innovation, but mostly I just think they want people to buy it because it's shiny and new.
Those whipped cream cheeses are easy as fuck to spread on a bagel with the shitty plastic knives they give you. Same stuff, just made spreadable. You can just tear off a chunk and dip it if you want. No change to the taste and the difference in texture is negligible because the bagel is 99% of that.
This is one of the rare processed food "innovations" that's actually good. Regular cream cheese is only for cooking now.