Bovril was created in 1888.
I sent an email to them and this was their response (South Africa) Bovril is a blend of Beef & yeast extract The yeast is derived from spent brewer’s year blended with beef extract The thickener which is used in Bovril is not oxblood; it is derived from carrageenan, a natural ingredient made from seaweed Bovril is Bovril is not certified Halaal and Kosher due to a component in the beef extract which is not Halaal- and Kosher suitable.
No it isn't. It contains beef which is unlikely to have been slaughtered in the Islamic way. Bovril should consider using Halal beef in its product to widen its market, remembering 25% of people are Muslim.
Bovril is considered more of a meat extract than a broth. Bovril can be used to flavor soup.
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I have absolutely no idea who inveted the bovril, but I know who INVENTED it. It was a marketing coup for a young Paul Burrel (Pre-Diana). Not many people know this, but if you put some bovril in CD player and play it backwards, there are hidden Nazi messages. DOOD!!
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Bovril was invented by the Scottish entrepreneur John Lawson Johnston, who built a factory in Quebec, Canada, to cope with his enormous windfall from the French ministry of war. He used meat offcuts to make Fluid Beef which he renamed Bovril from the words Bos, the Latin for a cow, and vril, meaning an electric fluid.
Have you tried http://www.unilever.co.uk/ourbrands/foods/bovril.asp?
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