14 Things You Really Don’t Want To Know About Your Groceries

[snagglepuss]

2. Not-from-concentrate orange juice is processed with “flavor packs” to artificially ensure that each bottle tastes exactly the same.


5. Maraschino cherry producers bleach the fruit with chemicals and then marinate it in huge vats of corn syrup and dye to turn the cherries red again.

6. Many canned soups are flavored with MSG, even when they claim they aren’t...MSG isn’t necessarily bad for you, but soup makers sneakily get around admitting that they use it by referring to it as “naturally occurring” (because it’s refined from vegetable and yeast proteins) and listing it in the ingredients as “yeast extract” or “hydrolyzed protein.”

14. Shredded cheese is packed with cellulose — aka refined wood pulp — to keep it from clumping.


http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelysanders/dark-secrets-how-food-groceries-are-made

[siligut]

1. #9, about hot dogs . . . huge vat of beige stuff

Ugh, and people aren't going to like # 13 either, but I bet that won't stop them from eating it.

[uppityperson]

2. meh.

[PDJane]

3. Oddly enough, I knew all of those things.

I especially know what happens to milk and cheese....and refuse to eat creamers. Those things are simply impossible to digest.

[Phentex]

4. Have you ever looked at a maraschino cherry?

Nothing in nature looks like that. Why would anyone be surprised by how it was made?

[snagglepuss]

5. Never tjhought they`d used bleach.

[Phentex]

9. They use bleach as a verb...

bleached with chemicals.

[tkmorris]

6. Buzzfeed is notorious for sensationalizing these lists

I didn't see anything actually false there, though every item on the list is fairly well known already and is worded to make it seem far worse than it is. Take that picture of veggie-burgers being made for example. Have a look at any of the Food network shows about ANY processed foodstuff being made and they all look similar. Buzzfeed is horrified they are mixing it "In a huge wheelbarrow. With a shovel.". Uh-huh. It's a large food grade container with wheels on it, not something they picked up at Home Depot.

Still though, if people really knew how their foods get made they'd probably seek out less refined products.

[William769]

7. One thing I do know about them

They are fucking expensive!

[cbdo2007]

8. Hmmm, most of those weren't a big deal.

I mean, where do people think hot dogs come from? They're basically the same "pink slime" everyone was up in arms against last year.

Also, a lot of shredded cheese is mixed with wheat rather than cellulose, hence why the cheese isn't gluten free and has to be avoided for those with gluten intolerances and allergies.

[Buns_of_Fire]

10. Betcha The Laughing Cow doesn't really laugh, either.

But that's OK -- I long came to terms with the fact that Elsie the Cow probably wound up in a Big Mac I ate several years ago.

[jberryhill]

11. Mine does