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Please women, men are not all that fond of your cosmetics and they could be making you ill or worse. Leave the cosmetics to the clowns.Please women, men are not all that fond of your cosmetics and they could be making you... more
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When the holidays roll around and the sun goes into hiding for the winter, bakers all around the country roll out their dough and go into pie mode. Although pies are not my specialty, holiday cookies, cakes, bars, or breads are always great gift ideas and should be savored, not stuffed down our gullets like sweets so often are. Even though there are guilty pleasures floating around the holiday season from pumpkin and pecan pies to gingerbread houses and sugar cookies with sprinkles, there are ways to get around using some of the heavier ingredients in your favorite treats.
Paula Deen’s favorite friend, the butter stick, is getting a bad reputation of late with obesity on the rise and butter being necessary in almost every commercial recipe. Why shouldn’t we like butter, its delicious! Both high in calories and saturated fat (the really bad kind of fat) butter in large quantities is never a good idea. If you use half of the butter in your favorite recipe you can swap in...When the holidays roll around and the sun goes into hiding for the winter, bakers all... more
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(OrganicJar) Everyone now knows that processed and fast foods are not the bastions of nutrition, but that shouldn’t make these ingredients found inside them any less revolting. This list sends a clear message: when a packaged food contains more than five ingredients and includes some that are difficult to pronounce, stay away. Make a b-line straight to the organics aisle.
1. Fertilizers – in your bread
While chemical fertilizers inevitably make it into our produce in trace amounts, you would not expect it to be a common food additive. However, ammonium sulfate can be found inside many brands of bread, including Subway’s. The chemical provides nitrogen for the yeast, creating a more consistent product.
2. Beaver Anal Glands – in your candy
The anal glands of a beaver, conveniently euphemized as castoreum, are a common ingredient in perfumes and colognes but are also sometimes used to — believe it or not — enhance the flavor of raspberry candies and sweets.
3. Beef Fat – in your snacks
While this may not bother the most ardent omnivore, others are shocked to discover that their favorite childhood treats contain straight-up beef fat. The ingredient comes included a list of other oils that may or may not be used, so it is always a gamble!
4. Crushed Bugs – as red food coloring
After killing thousands at a time, the dried insects are boiled to produce a liquid solution that can be turned to a dye using a variety of treatments. Some people worry that the coloring — often called carmine or carminic acid — could be listed as a “natural color,” disguising the fact that there are bugs in the product.
5. Beetle Juice – the hard candy coating
You know that shiny coating on candies like Skittles? Or the sprinkles on cupcakes and ice cream sundaes? Well, they get that glaze from the secretions of the female lac beetle. The substance is also known as shellac and commonly used as a wood varnish.
6. Sheep Secretions – in your bubble gum
The oils inside sheep’s wool are collected to create the goopy substance called lanolin. From there, it ends up in chewing gum (sometimes under the guise of “gum base”), but also is used to create vitamin D3 supplements.
7. Human Hair and Duck Feathers – in your bread
What’s in your morning bagel? If you get it from Noah’s Bagels, it contains either human hair or duck feathers, and it’s your guess as to which. The substance, called L-cysteine or cystine, is used as a dough conditioner to produce a specific consistency. While artificial cysteine is available, it is cost prohibitive and mostly used to create kosher and halal products.
8. Coal Tar – in red colored candy
Coal tar is listed as number 199 on the United Nations list of “dangerous goods,” but that doesn’t stop people from using it in food. The coloring Allura Red AC is derived from coal tar and is commonly found in red-colored candies, sodas and other sweets.
9. Calf Stomach – in your cheese
In the UK, all cheeses are labeled as either suitable or not suitable for vegetarians because in Britain — and everywhere else — many cheeses are made using rennet, which is the fourth stomach of a young cow. In the United States and most other countries, people are left to guess about the stomach-content of their cheese.
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10. Sand – in your chili
Sand is hidden in Wendy’s chili as a name you might remember from high school chemistry class: silicon dioxide. Apparently they use sand as an “anti-caking agent,” perhaps to make sure the chili can last for days and days over a heater.(OrganicJar) Everyone now knows that processed and fast foods are not the bastions of... more
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Manufacturers of detergents, household cleansers and furniture polish, like Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and others, are facing questions from consumers about the chemicals in their products. While many of the chemicals are present only in small amounts, some have been associated with asthma, birth defects and fertility problems in higher doses. And even if the amounts are low, consumer groups say, what is the effect of using these products over a lifetime?
The questions have left the industry in an awkward position. It wants to be seen as environmentally sensitive and consumer-friendly. But at the same time, companies do not want to give competitors and makers of cheap knock-offs all the details of what goes into Pine-Sol, for instance, or Windex.
So they have been working with consumer groups to devise a plan that could satisfy both sides. Come January, the industry has said it will voluntarily start to disclose much of what is in its cleaning products, which now represent a $14 billion-a-year business. Consumers will be able to call an 800 number, look at a Web site or, in some cases, simply check the product label to find the ingredients.Manufacturers of detergents, household cleansers and furniture polish, like Procter... more
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We all love beauty products. But how do we know what to buy? Our blogger, a professional beauty writer for some of the top glossies in the world, has chosen one of her favorite nail products to make your gnarly nails a thing of the past! Read on if you want to shake someone’s hand again with pride!We all love beauty products. But how do we know what to buy? Our blogger, a... more
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Not a fan of the trendy frozen yogurt at all, but always fascinated by 'hidden' ingredients, wow what an article about your 'natural' trend. Not surpised at all if what most the stuff we consumed everyday has some invisible small print. interesting.
Here are some excerpts from the NYtimes frozen information.
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"After a class-action lawsuit was filed last year accusing the company of deceptive marketing, Pinkberry posted ingredients on its Web site. But that got little notice until the case was settled two weeks ago. (The company said the lawsuit had nothing to do with the posting.)"
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"The ingredients list for Original Pinkberry has 23 items. Skim milk and nonfat yogurt are listed first, then three kinds of sugar: sucrose, fructose and dextrose. Fructose and maltodextrin, another ingredient, are both laboratory-produced ingredients extracted from corn syrup"
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The list includes at least five additives defined by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization as emulsifiers (propylene glycol esters, lactoglycerides, sodium acid pyrophosphate, mono- and diglycerides); four acidifiers (magnesium oxide, calcium fumarate, citric acid, sodium citrate); tocopherol, a natural preservative; and two ingredients — starch and maltodextrin — that were characterized as fillers by Dr. Gary A. Reineccius, a professor in the department of food science and nutrition at the University of Minnesota and an expert in food additives.
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Pinkberry announced its certification two weeks ago, just as a preliminary settlement was reached in the class action suit. While saying it had done nothing wrong, Pinkberry agreed to donate $750,000 to hunger and children’s charities, and to pay the plaintiff’s legal costs.
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“Personally, I would have preferred that the money go toward consumer advocacy against misleading food marketers,” said Ray Gallo, a lawyer for the plaintiff. Not a fan of the trendy frozen yogurt at all, but always fascinated by... more
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