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Cancer Causing Chemical In Your Potato Chips!(0)
Acrylamide in Potato Chips and other popular foods!? Who knew that potato chips and other starchy foods contained a chemical listed on California’s Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to cause cancer or “reproductive toxicity,” which is defined as birth defects and other reproductive harm. Certain doses of acrylamide are also toxic to the nervous ...
How Fresh Are Your Eggs?
When an egg floats in water, it is “bad” and should not be eaten. As eggs age, gases build-up inside their shells, making them more buoyant. This is the best way to test whether an egg has gone rotten without having to break open the shell, risking the foul odor escaping. When an egg is ...
Virus Sandwich Anyone?
The FDA allows the use of bacteriophages ( a fancy name for viruses)to fight listeria microbes that are found on lunch meat, sausages, and hot dogs. What this really means is that that the processed turkey in your sandwich contains a number of viruses; specifically used to target the bacteria that causes listeriosis, a rare ...
How Fresh is Your Bread? Check the Tie!
You can tell how fresh the bread is on the grocery store shelf by the color of the twist tie or plastic tab used to keep it closed. You may not have noticed before, but if you look closely at the loaves of bread on your grocery store shelves you’ll see that they are sealed ...
Don’t Try This at Home!
We know that non-dairy creamer is terrible for you and is full of artery-clogging trans-fats, but did you know that Non-Dairy Creamer is flammable?! The popular TV program Mythbusters tested to prove whether or not powdered non-dairy creamer could ignite an explosion? As it turns out, it did. Sodium aluminosilicate, an ingredient added to keep ...
Artificial Strawberry Flavoring Contains 50 Different Chemicals!
In order to imitate the flavor of a strawberry, manufacturers include 50 distinct chemicals like ethyl acetate, a solvent used to clean circuit boards and also to remove nail varnish! Add to the mix phenythyl alcohol, a preservative also used in soaps and detergents! So, the next time you get a craving for a strawberry milkshake, make it ...
Think You’re Alone at your Desk? Not So!
Think you’re alone at your desk? Not so! There are millions of germs working alongside of you. According to a University of Arizona study, the average desk harbors 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat! These are observations reported by a University of Arizona microbiology professor and expert on hygiene. In studies conducted ...
Does Your Favorite Beer or Wine Contain Fish Bladder?!
My Beer and Wine May Contain Fish Bladder!? Is that Isinglass in my wineglass? As you sip on that glass of wine or ice-cold beer this summer, know that many brands of beer and wine contain an ingredient taken from the bladders of tropical fish, called Isinglass. Used to filter cloudy yeast extracts out of ...
Beaver Anal Glands a Common Ingredient? Dam Right!
The anal glands of a beaver are a common ingredient in perfume and cologne but are also sometimes used to — believe it or not — enhance the flavor of raspberry and vanilla candies, ice cream, drinks, and desserts such as puddings. This ingredient can be in your food listed as castoreum, or without your ...
Fertilizer Free With $5 Footlong!
Fertilizer in Subway Sandwich Rolls?! While chemical fertilizers inevitably make it into our produce in trace amounts, you would not expect it to be a common food additive. However, ammonium sulfate can be found inside many brands of bread, including Subway’s. The chemical provides nitrogen for the yeast, creating a more consistent product.