5 Horrifying Food Additives
Candies, meat, sugar, most of the foods serve today contains at least something not desirable to eat. Cracked, lists the 5 Horrifying Food Additives You’ve Probably Eaten Today.
Most everyone is familiar with shellac as a wood-finishing product. It’s often used to give furniture, guitars and even AK-47’s that special shine. But did you know it is also commonly used as a food additive? Yep, that’s why those jelly beans you gorge on every Easter are so shiny.
But what exactly is shellac?
Shellac is derived from the excretions of the Kerria lacca insect, most commonly found in the forests of Thailand.
The Kerria lacca uses the sticky excretion as a means to stick to the trees on which it lives. Candy makers use it to make those treats you love so much shiny and beautiful. Then you eat them. The insects that is.
You see, the process used to harvest the Kerria lacca excretion is a pretty simple one. They just scrape that shit right off the tree. Unfortunately for you and your future enjoyment of shiny candies, this leaves little room for quality control measures to guarantee that the insects themselves aren’t scooped up also.
Once that happens, and it almost always does, the insect simply becomes part of the shellac-making process. And the candy-making process. And the candy-eating process.
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