Name Something You Usually Consumed Until You Learned What Was In It

[debodun]

Figs - I learned there's a dead insect inside them.

 

[Nathan]

Name Something You Usually Consumed Until You Learned What Was in it

Not any more. A bitter ingredient was added to Ethylene Glycol to cover up the sweet taste after several wives used it to get rid of their husbands.

 

[Remy]

Regular peanut butter. Added salt, sugar and especially the partially hydrogenated oil. Now I only eat peanut butter with no additives.

I stopped using palm oil which is usually the oil used. I only buy the stir kind. If it's unsalted, I just add some salt as I stir it.

 

[StarSong]

I stopped eating nearly all processed foods when I started reading the labels. Stopped eating meat when I saw the conditions under which most livestock is raised, slaughtered and processed. I occasionally eat dairy but less and less as time goes by.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

Propylene Glycol is not toxic. It's Ethylene Glycol that is in antifreeze & is toxic.

That well may be but it doesn't appeal to me to be eating something that's in hair products, if I can avoid it (other than maybe coconut oil, which I don't buy either). This is the third article I've read in the past couple of years that says propylene glycol is used as an antifreeze ingredient.
"Glycols and other deicing chemicals are efficient freezing-point depressants--that is, they act as a solute to lower the freezing point of the solvent, in this case water. Propylene glycol (CH3CHOHCH2OH) or ethylene glycol (HOCH2CH2OH) generally is the major component of aircraft deicers, making up 30 to 70% of the solution. Either alone or in combination, the glycols, calcium magnesium acetate, sodium acetate, sodium formate, and urea are used on runways and airport roadways."
https://pubsapp.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/7901scit5.html

 

[Nathan]

Hot Dogs/frankfurters, knew a co-worker who once worked for Oscar-Mayer. Probably to this day he won't allow his kids or grandkids one.

I'll still eat hotdogs once in a while, but I know they're basically ground up hooves and snouts and floor sweepings....

 

[win231]

That well may be but it doesn't appeal to me to be eating something that's in hair products, if I can avoid it (other than maybe coconut oil, which I don't buy either). This is the third article I've read in the past couple of years that says propylene glycol is used as an antifreeze ingredient.
"Glycols and other deicing chemicals are efficient freezing-point depressants--that is, they act as a solute to lower the freezing point of the solvent, in this case water. Propylene glycol (CH3CHOHCH2OH) or ethylene glycol (HOCH2CH2OH) generally is the major component of aircraft deicers, making up 30 to 70% of the solution. Either alone or in combination, the glycols, calcium magnesium acetate, sodium acetate, sodium formate, and urea are used on runways and airport roadways."
https://pubsapp.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/7901scit5.html

It is also an ingredient in many foods & medications. We've all had it without knowing.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...col-270.html&usg=AOvVaw1fMyfJMvkkYe7WwGFCdxpW

 

[JustBonee]

I'll still eat hotdogs once in a while, but I know they're basically ground up hooves and snouts and floor sweepings....

I'll have them every once in a great while, and try to not think of what I am eating....

 

[JaniceM]

I'll still eat hotdogs once in a while, but I know they're basically ground up hooves and snouts and floor sweepings....

Add some chorizo and you can have the salivary glands, too..

 

[Nathan]

Add some chorizo and you can have the salivary glands, too..

I loooove chorizo, except for the tons of fat and added sodium. My ex used to fix me chorizo-eggs-beans and warm tortillas for breakfast, it was delicious. Later on, when our marriage was going south, I realized she was trying to collect on my [huge] life insurance policy...

 

[JustBonee]

*Off topic .... but does anyone else notice how crowded it is in the "Upset Stomach" aisle at the grocery stores?

Those OTC medicines go quickly!

 

[win231]

I loooove chorizo, except for the tons of fat and added sodium. My ex used to fix me chorizo-eggs-beans and warm tortillas for breakfast, it was delicious. Later on, when our marriage was going south, I realized she was trying to collect on my [huge] life insurance policy...

My ex almost did. And she tried other ways in addition to bad foods.
Interesting that she died of cancer 7 years ago at 64, while I'm still here.