The carcasses of ground-up, boiled beetles, which are often used in snack foods to create those lovely shades of red, purple and pink in fruit juice, ice cream and candy.Vanilla-flavored items like cookies and cakes are sometimes flavored with castoreum, a secretion from a beaver’s behind (technically, from a sac near his anus called the castor sac).(And we cant handle fear factor. or claim we have never eaten bugs.. Gross) ADA in snack foods like cupcakes, cookies and crackers to improve their texture--but it’s also used in yoga mats, flip-flops and other plastic products. While it’s legal to add ADA to foods here in the U.S. (as long as you stay below 45 parts per million), ADA is banned in the European Union. We’ve all chuckled over the urban legend that a Twinkie will stay fresh forever. Turns out, that’s not so far-fetched. Highly processed foods can remain edible well beyond the expiration date on the package.. (the twinkie will outlive us all. lol) Each year, an estimated one in six Americans gets sick, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die from consuming contaminated foods and beverages, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And a number of these incidents are the result of filthy conditions in food manufacturing plants. Extensive exposure to arsenic has been linked to cancers of the bladder, lungs, skin, kidneys, nasal passages, liver and prostate, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. But few people realize that the substance can be found in many snacks, even some considered healthy. The toxin, which occurs naturally, is absorbed by plants from soil and water. It’s present in trace amounts in many grains, fruits and vegetables, but it appears in particularly high levels in rice—which is replacing wheat in some snacks as manufacturers offer more gluten-free options. But read the ingredients list, and many popular energy bars start to look anything but healthy—and instead more like garden-variety candy bars. They often contain ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, dextrose and fructose—sugars, all—plus chocolate, rice crispies and caramel. “They are highly-engineered sugar delivery systems,” says Dr. Sean C. Lucan at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Eating such a snack is likely to give you the kind of immediate burst of energy—also known as a sugar rush—that you’d get from a candy bar. And then you’ll crash, often feeling more tired than before you ate the bar, Lucan says. (And maybe you’ll reach for another energy bar.) “Natural basically has no meaning in food labeling When we say ‘enriched,’ we mean processed finance.yahoo/news/10-things-snack-food-companies-121029056.html
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:16:12 +0000