Things You Really Don’T Want To Know About Your Groceries

[Maximus]

[b] Greek yogurt manufacturing produces millions of pounds of (toxic) acid whey waste every year, and no one knows what to do with it.[/b]

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“For every three or four ounces of milk, Chobani and other companies can produce only one ounce of creamy Greek yogurt. The rest becomes acid whey. It’s a thin, runny waste product that can’t simply be dumped. Not only would that be illegal, but whey decomposition is toxic to the natural environment, robbing oxygen from streams and rivers. That could turn a waterway into what one expert calls a ‘dead sea,’ destroying aquatic life over potentially large areas. Spills of cheese whey, a cousin of Greek yogurt whey, have killed tens of thousands of fish around the country in recent years.

[Maximus]

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


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No matter what time of year it is and which oranges the juice came from, big beverage companies make their products perfectly consistent by mixing the juice with [url="http://civileats.com/2009/05/06/freshly-squeezed-the-truth-about-orange-juice-in-boxes/"]carefully calibrated, brand-specific orange flavorings[/url]. These mixtures are added to replace the natural flavors lost when juice is chemically stripped of oxygen ([url="http://www.google.com/patents/US5006354"]“deaerated”[/url]) so that it can be kept in storage tanks for more than a year (!) without oxidizing.
Because the added flavor is technically derived from orange oil and extract, it doesn’t need to be specifically listed in the ingredients

[Maximus]

[b] Most commercial milk is made by combining, heating, homogenizing, and repackaging the milk of hundreds of cows.[/b]


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Milk gets separated by huge industrial centrifuges into components (fat, protein, and other solids and liquids). Those milk parts are then recombined in various proportions to make perfectly uniform whole, low-fat, and skim milks.
Read more about the process — and how raw milk (aka the kind that comes straight from cows) became a thing of the past — in [url="http://articles.latimes.com/2000/aug/02/food/fo-62752"]this [i]L.A. Times[/i] article[/url].

[Maximus]

[b] Many canned soups are flavored with MSG, even when they claim they aren’t.[/b]


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The additive gives soups a meat-like flavor that helps make up for canning-induced blandness and less salt (many brands have reduced their use of salt thanks to nutrition concerns about high sodium levels).
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 [url="http://foodidentitytheft.com/hidden-msg-and-the-soup-wars/"]listing it in the ingredients[/url] as “yeast extract” or “hydrolyzed protein.” An actual [url="http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/mm-mm-militant-campbell-goes-after-progresso-104585"]ad war broke out[/url] in 2008 because Campbell’s and Progresso were so worried that customers wouldn’t buy soup they knew contained MSG.

[Maximus]

[b] The canning process for soup is so violent that companies grow huge, super-tough carrots for the soup so they won’t disintegrate.[/b]


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[Maximus]

[b] Many ice creams are thickened and stabilized with carrageenan, which is actually a seaweed extract.[/b]



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Source: [url="http://www.fitsugar.com/Should-You-Avoid-Carrageenan-1074330"]fitsugar.com[/url]

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Not bad, just…odd? More info [url="http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/question315.htm"]here[/url].

[Maximus]

[b] Lots of imported (and expensive) “extra-virgin” olive oils are actually cut with cheaper seed and nut oils.[/b]


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Read Tom Mueller’s [url="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_mueller"]fascinating (and hilarious) 2007 exposé[/url] of Italian oil fraud, which eventually became the book [url="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393070212/?tag=buzz0f-20"][i]Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil[/i][/url].

[Maximus]

[b] Coffee creamer is made of corn syrup and (hydrogenated, trans-fatty) vegetable oils.[/b]


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[url="http://www.organicauthority.com/health/what-the-heck-is-coffee-mate-creamer.html"]Ain’t no cream in there[/url]. Here are the ingredients listed on the label of [url="http://www.coffee-mate.com/Products/original.aspx#b936f373-d1f9-4af0-a4da-32221f22135e"]Coffee-Mate[/url] Original Liquid creamer:
WATER
CORN SYRUP SOLIDS
PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTONSEED OIL
LESS THAN 2% OF SODIUM CASEINATE (A MILK DERIVATIVE)
DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE
MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES
SODIUM ALUMINOSILICATE
ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR
CARRAGEENAN

[b] And if you need another reason to stop putting creamer in your coffee, check out the super-fun texture you get when all those ingredients team up![/b]


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[Maximus]

[quote name='Posanism' timestamp='1370463624' post='1303826744']
mayya ni posts aslau ekadekadi nundo vetukuni vastav ga...
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[krisomania2043]

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