Interesting Food Facts…
How much do we really know about the food we put into our mouths every day? NO, this is not another article telling you what foods are good or bad for you… This article may just open your eyes to some interesting food facts you probably didn’t know existed.
1. Almost everyone has found a strand of hair in their food at some point or the other. Statistics state that an average person’s fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs. How’s that for disgusting?
2. Did you ever wonder why fast food joint fries are so brown and crispy but you can never recreate that at home? That’s because almost all fast food places dip their fries in sugar.
3. For those who detest beef, brace yourself. Grilled chicken at certain fast food places like Wendy’s and KFC contain beef additives disguised under the names ‘extract and essence’
4. The only food that cockroaches won’t eat is cucumbers.
5. The chemical used to keep your salad crispy is called propylene glycerol. It is the same one used in Sierra anti-freeze and Astroglide sexual lubricant and responsible for skin and eye irritation.
6. You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Big Mac, Super sized coke and fries. Now do you really want that?
7. Are you a strawberry flavor person? Your body consumes 50 different chemicals including ethyl acetate, phenythyl alcohol, rose and solvent every time you consume a strawberry flavored something.
8. Your jelly beans are so shiny because they are coated with shellac a chemical that used for finishing wood. It’s on your furniture, your guitar and even your AK-47 if you have one.
9. The FDA allows an average of 30 insect fragments and one or more rodent hair per 100 grams of peanut butter. Think I’m joking? Look up the FDA defect levels handbook.
10. Peanut oil can be used to make a substance called glycerol which is used to make dynamites.
11. Ice creams contain seaweed to keep them from crystallizing.
12. Natural vanilla causes the body to increase its production of adrenaline therefore making it a mild additive.
13. Pure cane sugar goes through a purification process involving bone char made from cows that die of natural causes. Pure indeed!
14. The FDA allows the use of bacteriophages to combat microbes that grow on lunch meats, sausages and hot dogs. Bacteriophages are viruses that kill harmful microbes. It’s just a matter of which one’s worse than the other really… sheesh!
15. What color is salmon? Pink? Wrong! GRAY! Yes, wild salmon is actually grey. The pink salmon that we get is due to farm raised salmon being fed coloring agents and they contain 16 more contaminants that wild salmon. Fishing anyone?
16. Did you ever wonder why Swiss cheese has holes? This happens because during fermentation the bacterial chemistry creates gas that works its way through the cheese leaving it porous.
17. Some yoghurt contains beef or pork gelatin.
18. A truffle is not only a delicious dessert. It is also a fungus that grows under certain trees. They are sniffed out by female pigs that recognize the smell as it has the smell of the same component in male pig’s saliva. But here is the big surprise… These fungi cost $800-$1500 per pound.
19. The largest item to be served on any menu is a camel. It doesn’t stop here. The camel is stuffed with a sheep’s carcass, which is then stuffed with chicken, which is then stuffed with fish and finally eggs. Phew!
20. In ancient china and certain parts of India, Rat meat is enjoyed as a delicacy. Eeewww!
21. There is delicacy called Fugu in Japan made out of the toxic puffer fish. If not cooked with the exact measurements, it can kill. It kills about 300 people every year.
22. Casu Marzu is a cheese made out of sheep’s milk and has flies purposely added to it for the larvae to act on it. This cheese is a delicacy in Sardinia.
23. Cheese products contain less that 51% cheese. The other 49% would be concoctions of flavorings and concocted with additives to give the taste buds an illusion of cheese.
24. Chicken poop produced in its lifetime can light up a 100 watt bulb for 5 hours. Go birdie!!
25. The highest price coffee in the world comes from civet droppings. Civet is an animal that feeds on exquisitely ripe berries and excretes part of the berry which is cultivated and sold.
26. In a study of over 900 bottles and 100 store brands that was tested by the national Resources Defense council, it was found that one third of it contained synthetic organic chemicals, bacteria and arsenic.
27. The purplish pink color in your drinks is actually derived from bugs. The color is derived from an insect called dactylopius coccus costa whose diet is of red cactus berries. These insects are crushed into a fine powder and added to your drink. They appear on your drink as an ordinary food coloring called cocohineal extract, carmine or carmines acid.
28. Worcestershire sauce is made from dissolved fish. Anchovies are soaked in vinegar until they are completely dissolved… bones et al.
29. The phosphorous acid in cola is so acidic that it can dissolve your finger nail in 4 days and your teeth in maybe a month. The PH of soda is the same as that of vinegar. So the next time you drink cola think vinegar.
30. Water is reusable. Therefore the water you are drinking may have already been drunk by someone else, maybe more than once.
…And there you have it. You can now face your plate more informed.
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Comments (6)
written by jfrancis, Tuesday, 01:09 AM, June 21, 2011
Every time I go out to eat from now on I'm going to think that the restaurant is plotting to kill me (which is probably true)!
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written by Hali, Thursday, 01:06 AM, June 23, 2011
i cannot believe The FDA allows an average of 30 insect fragments and one or more rodent hair per 100 grams of peanut butter. Think I’m joking? Look up the FDA defect levels handbook.
Should we just not eat at all? EWWWWWW ((appetite lost))
Should we just not eat at all? EWWWWWW ((appetite lost))
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written by snide707, Thursday, 01:19 AM, June 23, 2011
Yea i kno rite!? it's like we're eating rodent and insect bits now. Whats next?!
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