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*This thread is to simply showcase weird additives that food manufacturers resort to to enhance their foods. It emphasizes on the bizarre rather than the toxic. By no means are any of these toxic, but it does show what manufacturers resort to to "perfect" their otherwise crummy food.*
Also, any time you see "natural" or "artificial" flavors, this can be anything. I mean, anything, just as long as FDA approves it. Even then, food manufacturers can simply tell the FDA that it meets the standards, so...
Other countries may have a different set of regulations.
*This thread is to simply showcase weird additives that food manufacturers resort to to enhance their foods. It emphasizes on the bizarre rather than the toxic. By no means are any of these toxic, but it does show what manufacturers resort to to "perfect" their otherwise crummy food.*
- Castoreum
some of you heard it before; there was a thread devoted to it: it's sexual glands of a beaver next to the anal glands. Found in "natural" flavor of vanilla ice cream and just vanilla products. - Propylene glycol
In ice cream, cheese, and dressing, this is also the same stuff people use to remove frozen stuff in vehicles. In other words, antifreeze. - L-cysteine
If you hate finding human hair in your food, you'll be in for a nasty surprise that this amino acid is derived from human hair and even duck feathers! It's "meat flavor", "dough conditioner" in frozen packaged foods. - Fortified iron in cereal
It's literally ground up pieces of metal. I'm not kidding. Ground the cereal that's "fortified with iron", like Special K, into powder in a bowl. Put the powder on a sheet of paper. Get a strong magnet and watch some bits of black stuff stick to it. Too bad our bodies just suck at absorbing that nutrient in that form. - Cochineal Extract (Carmine)
Used as red food coloring. Starbucks may have gotten flack for using it, but this beetle-derived extract is still used in red juices, artificial crabmeat, and other red things. - Azodicarbonamide
Used in cereal, flower, and bread. Also essential to make foamed plastic and synthetic leather. Window and door gaskets also use it. Same thing for padded floor mats, excessive mats, and shoe soles. - Cellulose gum
Some of your ice cream and shredded cheese started as tree shavings. Don't you just love wood chips with your "light" ice cream? - Dimethylpolysiloxane
Also found in Silly Putty. - Potassium Bromate
Many countries have banned this substance, including China. If you are American, though, this potentially carcinogenic compound can be in your bread. - Lean finely texture beef (LFTB)
It's pink slime in technical terms. - Carrageenan
Derived from seaweed and can cause abdominal inflammation. - Mechanically separated meat
It's meat paste created by forcing bones attached with meat through a device (like a sieve) to detach the meat from the bones.
Also, any time you see "natural" or "artificial" flavors, this can be anything. I mean, anything, just as long as FDA approves it. Even then, food manufacturers can simply tell the FDA that it meets the standards, so...
Other countries may have a different set of regulations.
