6 Scary Things Hiding In Your Food

Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:22 pm » by **Spock**

Garden burgers. Power bars. Protein brownies. Bottled water that makes you thin, young and smart. And we used to wonder what they put in Pop Rocks...

These days it’s hard for even die-hard foodies to know what they’re eating or drinking. That’s because food has changed from something that didn’t need a modifier – if it walked, swam, flew or grew out of the ground, it was food – to something that stopped off at Mr. Burns’ nuclear plant on the way to your plate.

Let’s call it “foodiness.” Like Stephen Colbert’s truthiness, which wasn’t about truth, we’re not consuming food as much as we’re consuming an edible manufactured doppelganger designed to look and taste like food, but isn’t actually food: like veggie puffs with no vegetables; fruit bars with no fruit; like gold fish crackers with no goldfish.

And now, a look at some typical foodiness ingredients that are packaged, flavored and presented as food:

1. TBHQ, a.k.a Butane

Turns out Butane isn’t just for lighters anymore – it’s also an artificial anti-oxidant that they put it in chicken nuggets to keep them “fresh” tasting. So instead of your chicken nuggets being fresh, Butane keeps them “fresh." Eating butane probably wasn’t what you had in mind last time you lit up, got the munchies, and ordered those nuggets.

Found in: Frozen, packaged or pre-made processed foods with long shelf lives such as frozen meals, crackers, chips, cereal bars and fast food.

2. Estrogen:

Regular milk is full of hormones used by the milk industry to keep the cows knocked up and lactating all year round. Sound gross? It is. So when you drink regular milk you take a shot of hormones with it. And all you wanted was a bowl of cereal.

Found in: All non-organic dairy.

3. Spinach dust:

Think that green sheen on your veggie snacks is giving you your daily serving of vegetables? Think again. That’s just powdered spinach dust, which is spinach that has been dehydrated and sucked dry of its nutritional value. So the upshot is that green sheen is about as nutritious as actual dust.

Found in: “Healthier” vegetable flavored snack foods.

4. Propylene glycol, a.k.a antifreeze:

Antifreeze is used in cars, pills, cosmetics, deodorant, moisturizer…and food! It keeps your car from freezing over, your moisturizer moist, and your fat free cookie dough ice cream creamy, smooth and juicy. If it’s good enough for your SUV it’s good enough to eat, right? Right?? Right???

Found in: Cake mix, salad dressings, low fat ice creams and dog food.

5. Wood Pulp: Vanillin

Vanillin, which is a byproduct of the pulp industry, is used as an artificial vanilla flavor. Ester of wood rosin, which comes from pine stumps, is in citrus-flavored sodas to keep the citrus flavor evenly distributed through the can. And you thought you stopped eating paper when you gave up dropping acid.

Found in: Artificially flavored yogurt, baked goods, candy and sodas

6. Castoreum:

Castoreum comes out of a BEAVER’S ASS :yell:

– it’s extracted from their anal glands — and is used to make artificial raspberry flavoring. Try not to think about that next time you order the diet raspberry tea.

Found in: Artificially raspberry flavored products such as cheap ice cream, Jell-O, candy, fruit flavored drinks, teas and yogurts.

Chef Erica Wides is the host of Let’s Get Real: The Cooking Show About Finding, Preparing and Eating Food on the Heritage Radio Network.

Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:31 pm » by **domdabears**

Where you get this?

I'm stealing it. (putting it on my site)

I just wanna link it.

Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:35 pm » by **domdabears**

Found it.

http://www.foodrepublic.com/2012/03/14/ ... -your-food

Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:35 pm » by **Poooooot**

wtf man. This is scary!

Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:30 pm » by **Cwmman**

2. Estrogen:

Regular milk is full of hormones used by the milk industry to keep the cows knocked up and lactating all year round. Sound gross? It is. So when you drink regular milk you take a shot of hormones with it. And all you wanted was a bowl of cereal.

Maybe that explains MooBs

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Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:41 pm » by **Boatman**

Scary Spock my old pal.

Mmmmm that's probably why when i went in the toilet at the day Centre where i go there was a Chap in there pissing out of a Vagina underneath his armpit into the bowl. Maybe he had an asshole underneath the the other armpit?, i didn't wait around to see.

Sat Oct 06, 2012 2:13 am » by **Spock**

Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:28 am » by **99socks**

The general rule in my house is: if I am not the one to put it in the baggie before it comes home with me from the supermarket, I don't bring it home from the supermarket.

Follow one rule: never buy anything from an aisle in the supermarket, except spices. Ok, maybe pickles too.

You don't need to go down the canned goods aisle.
You don't need to go down the boxed dinners aisle.
You don't need to go down the chip aisle.
You don't need to go down the soda aisle.
You don't need to go down the frozen foods aisle. I am guilty of picking up blueberries if they are on sale.
You don't need to go down the cereal aisle.
You don't need to go down the bread aisle.

Real food doesn't come in a can, a box, or a frozen baggie! :sunny:

Sat Oct 06, 2012 12:01 pm » by **mediasorcery**

You eat shit, you are shit, not to mention all the rubbish/;litter this crap foods generate.

Sat Oct 06, 2012 12:13 pm » by **Spock**

mediasorcery wrote:You eat shit, you are shit, not to mention all the rubbish/;litter this crap foods generate.

I devein my shrimp.