Posted on 09/16/2019 2:49:02 PM PDT by Red Badger
Most people enjoy a scoop of delicious ice cream. But did you know that the popular dessert used to contain anal secretions from beavers? If you think that’s stomach-turning, check out these other weird or even deadly ingredients found in common food products. Baguettes with a side of opium
Just last March, shoppers in France were warned against purchasing bread that contained a dose of opium. Health officials were puzzled about the unexplained presence of the drugs in poppy seed baguettes and ready-made sandwiches made from poppy seed bread.
Poppy seeds don’t usually contain opiates and government investigators posit that a batch of seeds delivered to bakeries may have been contaminated from the latex sap of the plant that has alkaloids.
The investigators have yet to determine exactly how much of the popular sandwich bread was contaminated. One sandwich made from poppy seed bread could contain at least four milligrams (mg) of morphine, a dose equal to almost half a tablet of morphine sulfate that’s administered to individuals diagnosed with cancer.
Experts warn that the contaminated poppy seed bread is unsafe to eat and may even cause addiction. Investigators are still working on identifying the source of the contamination, along with the companies supplied with the tainted batch of seeds. “Allowable food defects”
Common foods aren’t always prepared in sterile conditions. It’s not uncommon for people to accidentally consume food with contaminants like feces, insects, mold, parasites, rodent hairs, and soil.
According to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Food Defect Levels Handbook, some items have acceptable or non-hazardous levels of these undisclosed ingredients. To illustrate, two cups of cornmeal may contain at least five insects, 10 insect fragments, 10 rodent hairs, and five fragments of rodent feces. Ice cream with a splash of beaver secretion
Castoreum, a natural flavoring, is a thick and aromatic secretion that comes from the anal glands of beavers. This ingredient gives a vanilla flavor to certain dairy products and desserts.
Near the end of the 19th century, beavers were hunted almost to extinction due to the high demand for castoreum, which was used as a food additive and fragrance. German chemists came to the beavers’ rescue when they discovered that vanillin, one of the chemicals responsible for the taste of vanilla, can be obtained from coniferin in pine bark.
Synthetic vanillin makes up at least 94 percent of all vanilla flavoring used by the food industry, with natural vanilla extract accounting for most of the remaining six percent. However, castoreum is still used in limited quantities to flavor luxury foods and beverages. Cheese with stomach enzymes
Traditional rennet, another “natural” ingredient, is used to make cheese. It is derived from the mucous membrane of the fourth stomach (abomasum) of young ruminants like calves and lambs. (Related: “Natural flavors” are anything but.)
Cheesemakers use rennet to separate milk into curds and whey for a crucial stage in the manufacturing process. While some cheesemakers still use traditional rennet, others use alternatives made from bacterial fermentation, mold, and plants (e.g., ivy and nettles). Mad honey disease
Several members of the rhododendron genus of flowering plants produce grayanotoxins in their nectar.
These neurotoxic substances are collected by bees to make honey. Consuming this honey causes “mad honey disease” in humans. This contamination may result in negative side effects like hallucinations, nausea, and vomiting. Lethal pickles
Food preservation methods such as pickling are used to extend the shelf life of food. But did you know that improperly preserved food can promote the growth of Clostridium botulinum?
C. botulinum produces the world’s most toxic substances, collectively called botulinum toxin. The toxin is so fatal that a dose of two thousand millionths of a gram (2ng) is considered deadly. In comparison, the average lethal dose of potassium cyanide is at least a tenth of a gram.
Eating contaminated food causes botulism, a condition that stops your nervous system from functioning properly. This illness results in general muscle weakness, paralysis, or death.
Honey may contain C. botulinum spores and while they are rather harmless for most individuals, the immune system of young infants is almost ineffective against these bacteria. The spores can cause a related condition called infant botulism, which is one reason why many government agencies warn against giving honey to children younger than one year old.
Before you eat something, think about where your food came from. Check food packaging carefully to determine that you’re buying products made with natural ingredients that are safe to eat.
Sources include:
TheConversation.com
Telegraph.co.uk
FDA.gov
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Try Weemsco /Limbaugh>
Don't know, but, if he were alive today, I bet I know who he'd vote for.
“Beaver anal secretions?”
Is the headline talking about a “shunt”? :P
Good thing you weren’t around in the days, when the only effective method physicians had for finding out if a person was diabetic was by tasting their urine. :P
Who was the first one who sucked on a cow’s udders?
I’ll lick that beaver till the sun go down.
Anal secretions the husband can clean up.
Like the first person who licked a toad and got high from it.
With the calf stomach, I could see it being used as a container for milk, and the curdling properties being discovered accidentally.
I don’t even want to think about the beaver secretions.
“The article is junk.”
Indeed.
“Castoreum, as you oughtta know, badger, is not “anal secretions.” It’s scent*-gland secretions from downbelow, but not anal.”
As another Freeper stated,
“The article is junk.”
Cheese is considered the first processed food. Theory goes that milk stored in a goat or sheep stomach, used as a liquid pouch, solidified. Early humans liked the taste, and figured out how to make it on purposed. Dried and salted, it would keep longer than milk too.
Bourbon is still wholesome, right? It’s not made from a weasel dingus or anything, is it?
Probably a taste which is something that people who eat beaver just know.
Who was the guy that said to himself, “I’m going to eat the next thing to come out of that chicken’s @55?”
I believe it was joe biden...he discerned that he somehow would get jomore votes.
Elizabeth Warren has high anal bones
She lied and is either from the Anal Beaver tribe or French
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