Disgusting Facts About Food
There are many different kinds of food: meats, vegetables, healthy, unhealthy, preserved, organic, packaged, processed, and so on. The average American eats approximately 1,996 pounds of food per year, but not many people do their research to see what it is that they're eating.
Fast Food Facts
Fast food restaurants provide services that are often convenient, but food that is downright terrible. Here is a list of some of the things that fast food chains don't want you to know.
1) Strawberry milkshakes served in chains such as McDonald's contain a cheaper alternative to strawberries consisting of around fifty chemicals to include ethyl acetate, phenythyl alcohol and solvent. Ethyl acetate is a chemical that irritates the eyes and upper respiratory system, and with prolonged exposure, can cause dermatitis.
2) Some chicken nuggets,bologna, hot dogs, and pepperoni are shaped out of a pink paste that was created by using a process called mechanical separation.
3) The "healthy" alternatives served at fast food restaurants, such as salad, is not as healthy as it may look. To prevent vegetables from crisping and browning, they are dusted with a concoction of chemicals often used in antifreeze that cause skin and eye irritation.
4) Have you ever had a chicken nugget or chicken sandwich that just didn't taste right?
Heads up! you may have just eaten a mechanically separated combination of chicken and "other." To enhance flavor of some chicken foods, beef is often added.
1) Strawberry milkshakes served in chains such as McDonald's contain a cheaper alternative to strawberries consisting of around fifty chemicals to include ethyl acetate, phenythyl alcohol and solvent. Ethyl acetate is a chemical that irritates the eyes and upper respiratory system, and with prolonged exposure, can cause dermatitis.
2) Some chicken nuggets,bologna, hot dogs, and pepperoni are shaped out of a pink paste that was created by using a process called mechanical separation.
3) The "healthy" alternatives served at fast food restaurants, such as salad, is not as healthy as it may look. To prevent vegetables from crisping and browning, they are dusted with a concoction of chemicals often used in antifreeze that cause skin and eye irritation.
4) Have you ever had a chicken nugget or chicken sandwich that just didn't taste right?
Heads up! you may have just eaten a mechanically separated combination of chicken and "other." To enhance flavor of some chicken foods, beef is often added.
Food Processing
Transforming a chicken out of it's original state into a moldable paste to be changed into whatever the finishing product is requires a rather disgusting processing phase that consists of mechanical separation. Mechanical separation is a method of processing meat by the means of machines. The first stage of mechanical separation is de-boning. The de-boning is exactly what it sounds like: a machine cuts away the meat from the bone. This process is done by machines to be more efficient, and another way to make the processing more efficient is by cutting as much of the meat away as possible, by doing this however, part of the bone itself along with leftover blood is included in the product. After the de-boning, the product is moved into a meat grinder to be transformed into a thick, pink sludge. Because the blood and bone was included in the meat grinding process, unhealthy bacteria is transferred into the finishing product, so to avoid getting people sick, chemicals are added.
TA DA! you now have processed slud..... I mean, meat.
TA DA! you now have processed slud..... I mean, meat.
Maggots In Mushroom Cans
Maggots are little baby flies. They look like grains of rice. Maggots feed on rotting things.The Food and Drug Administration legally allows 19 maggots and 74 mites in a 3.5-ounce can of mushrooms.
Another gross facts is most are lined with bisphenol, A or BPA, a plastic chemical that causes unnatural hormonal changes that link heart attacks, obesity and some cancers.
Another gross facts is most are lined with bisphenol, A or BPA, a plastic chemical that causes unnatural hormonal changes that link heart attacks, obesity and some cancers.
The Truth About Hotdogs
Chocolate Lovers Beware!!
Have you ever noticed an unexpected crunch or a strange squish in your chocolate bar?
Not to make you paranoid or anything, but you may be eating insect legs. An average of six spider legs are in each chocolate bar produced on a large scale. The reason for insect legs being found in chocolate has to do with the first step of the chocolate-making process. The coco beans that are picked off of trees are put into a large hole in the ground for a long period of time to ferment. In this process, several hundred bugs crawl in with the beans to feast and reproduce, and when it comes time to ship the fermented beans, the insects are brought with them. Filtering out bugs and bug legs is a process that would take too long and cost too much money for a large company to mass produce, so the smaller impurities, such as bug legs, are often left behind in the finishing product.
Lying Labels
Skittles
Ever wonder what makes the skittles you eat so shiny? Or maybe why it's so chewy on the inside? Well you are in for a big, and actually disgusting, surprise. Skittles actually have crushed insect cocoons and that's where you get the great shine from. So whenever you eat them you can remember the gross -I mean yummy fact about skittles.
Human Finger Found in CustardWhile eating a cup of frozen custard, a man noticed a lump of something smothered in his custard. Thinking it was a nut, the man put it in his mouth, but was soon horrified to find that it was the severed finger of a factory worker where the custard was made. Upon finding the finger, the man shouted,"This ain't no nut!"
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