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Video: Why Does this Food Have 196 Ingredients?
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All we did was try to read the ingredients list on the back of this TV dinner. We didn’t realize we would get sucked into a processed food hell time vortex.
In this day and age of genetically modified, subsidized, and highly processed food full of chemical additives and synthetic multisyllabic unpronounceables, would it surprise you to learn that for just $2.22, you can buy a meal made with no less than 196 ingredients?
This food contains so many different forms of the excitotoxin MSG, both named and hidden, that we totally lost count.
You get more than your fair share of the preservatives BHT (butylated hydroxytolune), BHA(butylated hydroxyanisole) and TBHQ (Tertiary Butylhydroquinone), a trio of coal tar and butane derivatives that are laughingly referred to as “antioxidants” because they prevent the food from going rancid (can it even go rancid anymore?).
There are partially hydrogenated oils galore — a hidden treasure trove of trans fats, the man-made fats linked to heart disease and officially believed to have caused thousands upon thousands of heart attacks over the years. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently took trans fat off the GRAS (generally recognized as safe) list (finally), but a nifty loophole allows anything with less than 0.5 grams to say “zero trans fat” on the label even though it’s not actually zero (by the way, this dinner didn’t have any listed, even though the words “partially hydrogenated” were printed on there way more than once
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/04/video-why-does-this-food-have-196-ingredients/
