11 sickening ingredients that are in your food
Nathan Johnson
Published
08/07/2015
maybe it's best not to know
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Sand – Silicon dioxide is an anti-caking agent and contains sand. Silicon dioxide can be found in items like chilli and buffalo wings to keep it sitting around for a few days without going bad. -
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Beaver Urine – This smelly substance is named ‘castoreum’ and is used extensively in processed food beverages and vanilla and raspberry flavouring. The label will state “natural flavouring” but this is what that really means. -
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Beetles – The ingredient named ‘Carmine’ are crushed abdomen of the female Dactylopius coccus, an African beetle-like insect. -
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Ammonia -
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Fertilizer – chemical fertilizer ammonium sulphate is present in restaurant sandwich breads and is used to feed yeast during the baking process. -
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Wood – The ingredient Cellulose is present in many everyday foods and is made out of wood! It acts as a filler for cheap ingredients whilst providing good nutritional value and fibre. -
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Human hair and duck feathers – L-Cysteine is present in dough conditioners and is made up of human hair and duck feathers -
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Antifreeze -
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Antidepressants and other drugs -
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Dimethylpolysiloxane – This hard to pronounce ingredient is present in a lot of take away rice and it is a non-flammable chemical also found in adhesives and caulk.
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