Food for some people is fun, for others - such as those undergoing strict diet - is a curse, but somehow the food needed for the rest of our lives. Most of us know what you're eating - especially if you cook it yourself at home. But what about food out there? In the shop, a restaurant or a five-star hotel restaurant or factory-made foods, where food is presented before us, and we do not know what ingredients have been mixed in our food!
You may have full confidence to the professional chef with a high level of expertise in food processing, and certainly did not think that they are mixing strange ingredients, or may not make sense to your diet. But after learning some of the most bizarre food ingredients and following extreme, which has actually used in foods today, I'm sure you'll think: what am I eating this?
1. Gold
Gold is a precious metal of the most beautiful in the world. In addition to the material well-loved women's jewelry, gold materials are also used in certain parts of the elements for electronics. But do you know if gold has also become an ornamental material for foods and beverages with the code E number E175. Gold is very popular as an additional ingredient in alcoholic drinks such as the traditional liqueur from Germany and Poland called Goldwasser (Goldwater), which contains thousands of tiny gold layer. Gold does not react in the body chemistry, so the gold just passed and no effect on the body and have no nutritional value.
2. Virus
In August 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA = Food and Drug Administration) approved the use of bacteriophage-bacteriophage in the presentation of food (particularly in meat products ready to eat). A bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria. The rationale of the use of these viruses in food because of its usefulness to eat any bacteria that would cause food poisoning. Every year 2,500 people ill due to listeriosis in the U.S. - and consequently, millions of Americans now regularly eat foods that are added intentionally viruses to stop the development of bacteria that causes thousands of people fell ill. The FDA said that foods that are included with this virus does not require a label. And the really scary, they said: "Throughout accordance with existing regulations, we conclude that the use of these viruses is safe." Bermanfaatkah do you think? You who decide for yourself.
3. Borax
Borax (Borax) is material to extinguish the fire, insecticides, hair care for horses, a mixture of glass and detergent materials, and various other products. In the United States is prohibited materials used in preparing food, but not so in some other states. Borax is often used as a preservative in caviar (fish eggs), and in some Asian countries can be found in the noodles, beef meatballs, and rice. Borax is coded by E Number E285 has the effect of a serious intoxication in humans (especially in the testes).
4. Liquid Asphalt
First, amaranth flowers are used as food coloring (red with a specific color), but scientific tests have found that this material could lead to cancer. Then the proposed replacement material called Allura Red AC (numbered E Number E129). Allura Red AC is made of liquid asphalt (which is a liquid byproduct of the distillation of coal to coal gas or coke). Flammable liquid asphalt and is often used in shampoos designed to kill head lice. This material is also used to make Tylenol. Indeed, Allura Red AC is not menyebankan cancer, but can cause nausea and other side effects. Nevertheless, this material has been approved by the FDA and is very commonly found in the confectionery and soft drinks.
5. Varnish
This material is commonly used as a polishing material of wood furniture. This material is also called shellac (shellack) and used in the production of candy to give the impression of a sweet sparkle. Foods that are confirmed using this material is from Delfi Chacha confectionery (chocolate candy colors) that the composition mentioned Tartrazin Cl.19140 Lake, Red Lake Cl.16035 Alura, Cl.15985 Yellow FCF Lake, Blue Diamond Lake Cl.42090. Also a kind of natural lacquer is also generated by the secretion of the female beetles in which the material is used to make shellac pupal larvae.
6. Chinch
Color cochineal and carmine are two red dye for foods derived from bedbugs, precisely cochineal bug (a type of bedbugs that live in the U.S. family Dactylopiidae). Red food dye is produced by drying and crush the whole body of bedbugs, while the carmine color (dark red) is another form of cochineal powder. Bedbugs are usually killed by immersing them in boiling water - after a while dissolved in the water until the red color of a certain level - if it's like a young orange or red. 155 000 bedbugs are needed to make 1 kg of material. Cochineal has been used for hundreds of years and also used as a fabric dye that is very popular.
7. Cigarette
All you really ... cigarettes are objects that are no longer strangers and used almost 1.2 million people in this world. There are those who suggest, if you do not smoke, then smoke it eat it! Well, the way is by dropping a cigarette or cigar into a bottle of vodka or brandy, and let the nicotine and tar from cigarettes is contaminating drinking with reddish color and flavor and aroma of a typical cigarette. Mixed drinks are often called "nicotine tea". You want to try it yourself?
You may have full confidence to the professional chef with a high level of expertise in food processing, and certainly did not think that they are mixing strange ingredients, or may not make sense to your diet. But after learning some of the most bizarre food ingredients and following extreme, which has actually used in foods today, I'm sure you'll think: what am I eating this?
1. Gold
Gold is a precious metal of the most beautiful in the world. In addition to the material well-loved women's jewelry, gold materials are also used in certain parts of the elements for electronics. But do you know if gold has also become an ornamental material for foods and beverages with the code E number E175. Gold is very popular as an additional ingredient in alcoholic drinks such as the traditional liqueur from Germany and Poland called Goldwasser (Goldwater), which contains thousands of tiny gold layer. Gold does not react in the body chemistry, so the gold just passed and no effect on the body and have no nutritional value.
2. Virus
In August 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA = Food and Drug Administration) approved the use of bacteriophage-bacteriophage in the presentation of food (particularly in meat products ready to eat). A bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria. The rationale of the use of these viruses in food because of its usefulness to eat any bacteria that would cause food poisoning. Every year 2,500 people ill due to listeriosis in the U.S. - and consequently, millions of Americans now regularly eat foods that are added intentionally viruses to stop the development of bacteria that causes thousands of people fell ill. The FDA said that foods that are included with this virus does not require a label. And the really scary, they said: "Throughout accordance with existing regulations, we conclude that the use of these viruses is safe." Bermanfaatkah do you think? You who decide for yourself.
3. Borax
Borax (Borax) is material to extinguish the fire, insecticides, hair care for horses, a mixture of glass and detergent materials, and various other products. In the United States is prohibited materials used in preparing food, but not so in some other states. Borax is often used as a preservative in caviar (fish eggs), and in some Asian countries can be found in the noodles, beef meatballs, and rice. Borax is coded by E Number E285 has the effect of a serious intoxication in humans (especially in the testes).
4. Liquid Asphalt
First, amaranth flowers are used as food coloring (red with a specific color), but scientific tests have found that this material could lead to cancer. Then the proposed replacement material called Allura Red AC (numbered E Number E129). Allura Red AC is made of liquid asphalt (which is a liquid byproduct of the distillation of coal to coal gas or coke). Flammable liquid asphalt and is often used in shampoos designed to kill head lice. This material is also used to make Tylenol. Indeed, Allura Red AC is not menyebankan cancer, but can cause nausea and other side effects. Nevertheless, this material has been approved by the FDA and is very commonly found in the confectionery and soft drinks.
5. Varnish
This material is commonly used as a polishing material of wood furniture. This material is also called shellac (shellack) and used in the production of candy to give the impression of a sweet sparkle. Foods that are confirmed using this material is from Delfi Chacha confectionery (chocolate candy colors) that the composition mentioned Tartrazin Cl.19140 Lake, Red Lake Cl.16035 Alura, Cl.15985 Yellow FCF Lake, Blue Diamond Lake Cl.42090. Also a kind of natural lacquer is also generated by the secretion of the female beetles in which the material is used to make shellac pupal larvae.
6. Chinch
Color cochineal and carmine are two red dye for foods derived from bedbugs, precisely cochineal bug (a type of bedbugs that live in the U.S. family Dactylopiidae). Red food dye is produced by drying and crush the whole body of bedbugs, while the carmine color (dark red) is another form of cochineal powder. Bedbugs are usually killed by immersing them in boiling water - after a while dissolved in the water until the red color of a certain level - if it's like a young orange or red. 155 000 bedbugs are needed to make 1 kg of material. Cochineal has been used for hundreds of years and also used as a fabric dye that is very popular.
7. Cigarette
All you really ... cigarettes are objects that are no longer strangers and used almost 1.2 million people in this world. There are those who suggest, if you do not smoke, then smoke it eat it! Well, the way is by dropping a cigarette or cigar into a bottle of vodka or brandy, and let the nicotine and tar from cigarettes is contaminating drinking with reddish color and flavor and aroma of a typical cigarette. Mixed drinks are often called "nicotine tea". You want to try it yourself?
