Gross Things You Might Not Know You're Eating

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Human Hair

Human hair and feathers are used in breads to give texture. If you need motivation in cutting down your bread intake, imagine eating human hair of unknown people while you taste a delicious bread. Yummy.

 

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Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Grocery store meats are commonly infused with veterinary medicines, heavy metals and even the deadly MRSA. This causes almost 20,000 deaths per year; even more than AIDS! This should convince you to buy meat from organic farmers.

 

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Paint Chemical

There is a special ingredient in some salad dressings that isn't so appealing. White-colored dressing often contain paint chemicals to give them their color. After all, white is the symbol of clean and purity.

 

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Bug Juice

A bright red food colorant that you find in candies and yogurt is actually juice from the crushed abdomen of the ladybug. Maybe your mom was right about not eating a lot of candies. However, if you think yogurt is actually healthy, better check the ingredients of the yogurt you will choose.

 

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Beaver Anal Gland Juice

While you enjoy a delicious raspberry juice, you are really tasting beaver anal gland juice. As gross at it sounds, it is real. This ingredient is not shown on the label; instead it is called natural flavoring.

 

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Cloned Cow's Stomach

Nothing to wake you up in the morning like the rich smell of coffee, bacon and cheese. However, much of the cheese you eat is really cloned cow's stomach. Not quite so appealing any more, is it?

 

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Sex Hormones

Milk is good for calcium. However, it also contains sex hormones. Better go for the organic milk or milk that is not labeled as rBST.

 

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Ammonia

A lot of beef is cleaned with ammonia before being sold. There is evidence that suggests that ammonia can't kill all the germs of your beef, and it's residue can remain in the food. Just another reason to shop organic.

 

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Cancer-Causing Chemicals

Nothing is better than a large bag of popcorn to watch the greatest blockbuster of the year. However, much of the bags of popcorn are contaminated with chemicals that prevent the popcorn bags to stick. The toxic chemical, called perfluorooctanoic acid, has been linked to cancer, infertility, and other serious diseases.

 

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Herbicide

Most corn will contain harmful herbicides. These include Glyphosate, which is the active chemical ingredient in weed killers.

 

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Cleaning Chemicals

If you think your shrimp is cleaner after it's been prepared to eat, think again. Shrimp cleaned with cleaning chemicals is as dirty as shrimp full of antibiotics, mouse and rat hair, and pieces of insect. Better choose domestic shrimp.