By: Cody L
1. Shellac In Your Candy
Candy with hard, shiny shells is often made up of shellac. Shellac is a resin secreted by the lac bug. It’s also a mainstay in pill coatings, candy, coffee beans, and even waxy sheen on fruits and vegetables.
2. Prozac In Your Poultry
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University tested bird feathers and found a laundry list of feed additives, including banned antibiotics, antidepressants, allergy medications, arsenic in Benadryl, caffeine, and other prescription and over the counter drugs.
3. Sheep Oil In Your Gum
Theres lanolin in gum. Lanolin is the the oil that sheep produce in their wool. Its used as softeners in food. Lanolin is used in beauty products too as an emollient.
4. Wood Pulp In Your Cereal
Cellulose is made from cotton or nontoxic wood pulp. Cellulose has fiber and thats why its in cereals and healthy snacks. Organic products even has cellulose in it.
5. Cow Enzymes In Your Cheese
A lot of cheese is made with rennet. Rennet contains an enzyme extract.
Rennet is used as a cheese curdler. In tandem with pepsin, pepsin another enzyme which is from hogs.
6. Duck Feathers In Your Dough
Duck feathers are packed in processed breads in the form of L-cysteine, it is used as a dough softener. It’s in bagels, pies, bread, and a lot more. 2007 investigation found 80% of L-cysteine was derived from ducks.
7. Fish Bladders In Your Beer
In the beer-brewing process is a form of collagen called isinglass. It is made from swim bladders of fish. Isinglass clumps and the beer’s yeast and sinks to the bottom so the brew can be clear.
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