10 Common Foods That Contain Gross Ingredients

Here are 10 common foods that contain odd ingredients.

A food may look and taste completely normal, but that doesn’t mean that weird stuff wasn’t used in its making.
Here are 10 common foods that contain odd ingredients.
Number 10. Vanilla Ice Cream. Nothing says ‘yummy’ quite like beaver secretions. That’s right. Sometimes products, including the beloved cool, creamy favorite, get their vanilla flavor from castoreum, a substance found in the animals’ posterior sacs.
Number 9. Shredded Cheese. Every wonder how it is that pre-shredded, bagged cheese remains loose and easily sprinkled, while the freshly grated stuff turns into a clumpy mass? The secret is wood pulp. Cellulous extracted from the ground-up trees keeps the individual cheese pieces from attaching to one another.
Number 8. Jello-O. The thing that makes it wiggle and jiggle is collagen. Gelatin is a processed form of it and made by grinding and treating pig and cow bones, hides, and connective tissue. It’s then boiled, set, dried, and turned into a powder.
Number 7. Chewing gum. The addition of lanolin is what, in many cases, ensures that sticks and blocks of gum are soft enough to easily chew. It’s an oil that’s found in the woolen coats of sheep. You’ll find it identified on most labels as ‘gum base’.
Number 6. Bread. If you’re eating bread that’s meant to live a long shelf life it could have hair in it. Most bread contains the amino acid, l-cysteine which is derived from human hair, animal feathers and bristles, as well as synthetically manufactured. According to some reports, most of the human hair supply is from the floors of salons in China.
Number 5. Fireball Whisky. Behind its cinnamon-y sweetness lurks propylene glycol, an ingredient also often found in some types of anti-freeze as well as many food products. The FDA considers the additive safe, but Finland, Sweden, and Norway have pulled the liquor from store shelves.
Number 4. Ground Beef. Carbon monoxide is well known as a potentially fatal gas. It also is what some companies use to help keep their meat looking fresher longer. Injection is the method typically employed when adding it to tightly sealed containers.
Number 3. Potato Chips. Sodium bisulfite is what a number of manufacturers use to make sure the crispy nibbles don’t get stale too quickly. In homes across America the substance is used to clean toilets.
Number 2. Refined sugar. The stuff made from sugar cane, as opposed to the sweetener made from sugar beets, is processed using bone char. To make the filtration material, animal bones are heated until they’ve been reduced to carbon. The substance isn’t in the sugar, but it does come in contact with it.
Number 1. Cereal. Nobody likes a bowl of bad, rotted cereal, and to make sure their customers don’t have to face one some brands rely on the addition of BHA. Though it does the job of preserving the food, it’s also been linked to cancer.
Which weird ingredient are you most surprised by?