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5 Most Disturbing Food Facts
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John Erickson
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5. Coffee
stains your liver and spleen the same color as the bottom
of the coffee cup.[120]
4. The phosphoric acid found in cola is so acidic that it
can dissolve a nail in 4 days and this requires cola concentrate
trucks to display the highly corrosive materials sign.
3. More than 90% of the salmon available to us is farm-raised
and contain16X more pollutants than wild salmon. Since farm
raised salmon are not fed their natural food source, they
need to be given coloring agents to make them pink. Otherwise
farm-raised salmon would be gray.
2. Partially hydrogenated (Trans) fats, commonly found in
donuts, cakes, chips and cereals are so gooey they stay in
your body for at least 51 days after you eat them and traces
of it can be found in your body a year from the time you ate
them. [155]
1. Cochineal extract or “carmine” is a red dye
made from the dried bodies of female cochineal beetles which
turn a bright red color when they are pregnant. Cochineal
extract is used to provide a pink, red, or purple color to
foods like ice cream, yogurt, and fruit drinks.
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