Stuff About Fast Food
posted in All on 3/14/2014
Sand
Silicon dioxide (sand) is used as an anti-caking agent for items like fast-food buffalo wings and chili, so it can can stay in a heater for days at a time.
Silicon dioxide (sand) is used as an anti-caking agent for items like fast-food buffalo wings and chili, so it can can stay in a heater for days at a time.
Beaver Anal Gland Juice
This bitter, smelly, orange-brown substance known as castoreum, is used extensively in processed food and beverages, typically as vanilla or raspberry flavoring. In nature, it's combined with a beaver's urine and used to mark its territory.
Fertiliser
The chemical fertilizer ammonium sulfate, is added to some chain restaurant sandwich breads in order to feed yeast in the baking process.
Ammonia
Factory-farm conditions are full of bacteria and processing plants mix meat from hundreds or thousands of different cows, potentially creating a public health hazard in the mix. To try to make the meat "safer," the industry typically puts the beef through an ammonia gas bath
Factory-farm conditions are full of bacteria and processing plants mix meat from hundreds or thousands of different cows, potentially creating a public health hazard in the mix. To try to make the meat "safer," the industry typically puts the beef through an ammonia gas bath
Wood
Most of what you buy at the grocery store, from syrup to cereal, is made of wood. Cellulose comes in a variety of forms, but it all works the same way. It's a cheap, organic filler used in place of real ingredients. & it adds fiber to meals, so it can be advertised as healthy.
Pink slime used in the food industry is lean finely textured beef and boneless lean beef trimmings.
The product was originally for dog food before it was approved for human consumption.
Now it's in your fast food burgers
The product was originally for dog food before it was approved for human consumption.
Now it's in your fast food burgers
Human Hair AND Duck Feathers
L-Cysteine is an amino acid used in dough conditioners, softening mass-produced breads. It's made from human hair or duck feathers. 80%of L-cysteine is made of human hair, McDonald's uses the duck feather variety in its Baked Hot Apple Pie and Warm Cinnamon Roll.
Antifreeze
Propylene glycerol is found in antifreeze and lubricants, and can also cause skin and eye irritation. Fast food restaurants use it in pre-packaged salads to keep the greens crisp.
If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't eat it. A lot of takeout rice is covered in a clear, non-flammable chemical also found in adhesives and caulk, dimethylpolysiloxane.
