20 Unfortunate Facts About Food

There are huge, impressive teams of scientists working around the clock to make new and cheaper food scented concoctions that are close enough to pass your taste test. Thankfully, our readers are happy to enlighten you with the horribly disturbing truth about what you're eating.
20 Unfortunate Facts About Food

If “you are what you eat” was true then the majority of us would be 10% aspartame, 40% plastic, 5% pizza, and the rest made up of various animal lobes, folds, and feet. However, we typically go out of our way to avoid that realization so we can enjoy our frozen pizzas, filet-o-fish sandwiches, double-bubble burgers, and whatever sugary, chewy thing candy companies come up with next. Ignorance is bliss.

But if you're trying to eat healthy, we might be of service to you. Thanks to the folks at Cracked, you'll find out what jelly beans have in common with floor cleaner. You'll discover what connects the McRib with your sweaty yoga mat. Plus, you'll find out how and why ranch dressing can help prevent sunburn.

Take a peek at some of these incredibly true yet sad, sad, sad facts about the food you eat (just be sure to have dinner before reading this):

GRACKEDCON This is hoki. This unsightly fish is what McDonalds uses in their Fish-Fillets.
Steam is caused by burning chemical chips Milkshake made with solid fat and powdered sugar Sesame seeds literally glued on Each fry is held up by a s
CRACKEDO coNT M ATUIE BEVEALNEI THAT % F FOUND AIN IAINK HSPENSEEN ARE ANTAMINATEIWITH ELAL ATENIA. ENJAY LLA-LILAL
Beaver Anal Gland Juice What it is: It's a bitter, smelly, orange-brown substance known as castoreum, explains Bradley. In nature. it's combined with
McDonald's uses Azodicarbonamide for the McRib bun. That is used to make yoga mats CRACKEDCO COM
CRACKED co COM Citrus Red 2 is an artificial dye, banned in the U.S. except for coloring the skin of oranges. It's carcinogenic. Does it penetrate t
ICRACKEDCON Alcohol is made by fermentation, which means at some point your beer, wine or whatever once looked like it had already been consumed and r
The FDA considers chocolate defective if it contains more than 60 insect fragments and 1 rodent hair per 100 grams (a bit more than a large Hershey'
Shiny, right? ...which is That's because derived from jelly beans and tHe secretions other hard- (feces) of the shelled candies female lac bug are coa
The shredded cheddarcheese on Taco Bell'stacos doesn't melt; it burns. CRACKED Real cheese is supposed to melt.
GELATIN. THE STUFE THAT PUTS THE JIGGLE IN JELLO IS DERIVED FROM COLLAGEN A PROTEIN COLLECTED FROM THE SKIN OF ANIMALS CRACKED
20 Unfortunate Facts About Food
WT g) NET 1.8 CA LICORICE NTIFICIALIVEE Plent R Good nty B Gooo Carmine: a red coloring achieved by crushing and boiling red insects. one of the artif
HEALTHFREEDOMS.OR Point of Fusion Cheap meat is often glued together to form a single piece of steak GLUE MEAT CRACKEDOON
MEAT IS TREATED WITH CARBON MONOXIDE TO MAKE IT LOOK FRESH CRAGKED
CRACKEDCON TESCO Everyday Value spaghetti bolognese Spaghetti Pasta served with a Minced Beef Bologneses sauce No artificialnlavours Or colours Servin
20 Unfortunate Facts About Food
RANCH DRESSING CONTAINS TITANIUM DIOXIDE, To KEEP IT WHITE. IT ALSO KEEPS YOUR SKIN WHTE. IT'S SUNSCREEN.
CHICKEN TODAY CONTAINS 266% MORE AND 33% LESS PROTEIN THAN IT DID 40 YEARS AGO CRACKED COM
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