14 Disturbing Ingredients In Our Most Favorite Foods

Not all food that is tasty comes from tasty ingredients.

And in this age where mass-production and taste have to be balanced delicately, ingredients are sourced from a variety of places – natural and artificial. Anything that can aid fast production.

And some of them are plain disgusting. See how many have you eaten without knowing.

1. Boiled pig skin in our favorite jellies, yogurt, and candy sweets

When pig skin is boiled, it releases proteins that make your jelly sweets jiggle. The boiled skin is removed, and the gelatin extracted is dried and powdered and mixed into the instant jelly mixes you get n the market.

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2. Carbon dioxide is used in decaffeinated coffee

Carbon dioxide combines with caffeine in coffee and is hence used to take caffeine out of it.

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3. Sheep wool is present in your chewing gum

Sheep wool is used to extract lanolin, that is used to soften chewing gums. Otherwise, your gum will be too hard to chew.

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4. Human hair and duck feather extract in your favorite dairy and bakery products

Human hair and duck feathers are used to make a chemical called L-Cysteine. This chemical is used to enhance flavors in baking products such as cakes, pastries, and bagels.

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5. Beaver anus secretion is used to produce vanilla flavor and is used in ice creams

Beaver’s anal glands are very similar to vanilla flavor, and because it is easier to procure, it is used to enhance flavors in ice creams and candies.

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6. Wood pulp is used to coat cheese and thicken syrups

Cellulose, as it is popularly called, is used to fill a variety of food products so that their mass and volume increases, and thus, save companies lakhs of rupees.

It is used in cheese powder and in bakery products.

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7. Carbon monoxide is used to prevent oxidation in packed meat

If you didn’t know, carbon monoxide is poisonous to humans. Even then, it is pumped into packets of meat so that oxidation doesn’t take place. Oxidation causes the meat to become discolored.

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8. Coal tar is used in darkening food color

Hard to believe that coal tar is still used to darken food colors still. This is done because processed food usually loses all its natural colors. And coal tar is dark and hence is used to enhance the looks of a processed product.

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9. Skatole – the thing that makes your poop smell bad is used to flavor food too

Skatole is the same chemical that is secreted when red blood cells breakdown during your digestive process. That is the reason your poop smells so bad.

And it is used in very small quantities to enhance flavors in food.

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10. Dried fish bladder is added to beer to give its characteristic golden glow

The product is called Isinglass and it helps keep your beer clear as yellow crystal.

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11. Viruses are added to meat to kill harmful bacteria

This kind of viruses is called bacteriophages. Several strains of such viruses are used to keep the bacterial growth on meat to a minimum.

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12. Sand is used in dairy creamers and powders so that they flow without clumping

The real name is Silicon Dioxide. It is used to make powders smooth and flowy. Iy absorbs moisture readily and hence prevents powders from clumping.

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13. Bone powder is used to make sugar look whiter

Cane sugar, as we all know, is not white, and hence bone char is used to bleach and whiten sugar powder.

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14. Silicon breast implant filler is used in your chicken nuggets too

Dimethylpolysiloxane (PDMS) is the polymer that is used in breast implants, nail polishes and coincidentally, the chicken nuggets you love to eat so much.

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Are you hungry yet?

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