Contents of Our Food

David Zinczenko wrote this article about some shocking ingredients in our daily food consumption.
Chicken McNugget:
This alone contains seven ingredients and and most of them having nothing to do with chicken or bread. The chicken contains water, wheat starch, dextrose, safflower oil, and sodium phosphates along with “autolyzed yeast extract.” Not a lot of chicken in that CHICKEN McNugget. The breading also contains another twenty ingredients. But surprisingly Zinczenko says that this is pretty natural compared to other fast foods.

Wendy's Frosty:
The simple milk and ice cream shake has been broken down into multiple ingredients such as guar gum, cellulose gum, and carrageenan. The new Coffee Toffee Twisted Frosty has even a bigger list of ingredients with the ingredient coffee towards the bottom. Something tells me we aren't actually eating what we think.

Filet-O-Fish:
Our traditional Filet-O-Fish is made from hoki, a gnarly, crazy-eyed fish. This fish then has coat of batter, a bath of oil, a squirt of tartar added to it. But recently the hoki has not been used because of the extreme amount used. McDonald's is now using a different fish such as whitefish like Alaskan pollock. But you probably won't even notice.

Salami Sandwich:
Genoa salami, like you’d get at Subway, contains both cow and pig. But the process to how salami is made is even more revolting. It is made from slaughterhouse leftovers that are gathered using “advanced meat recovery." This is a mechanical process that strips the last remaining bits of muscle off the bone so nothing is wasted. Then lactic acid is added, the waste product produced by bacteria in the meat. Then you add all the spices and you get fifteen ingredients in your salami! Yum...

All of our food has secret ingredients in it but you can follow David Zinczenko in his bookEat This, Not That! Here is another link associated with that. And it's not just men's health, if you scroll down towards the bottom on the right there is a box for women's health as well.