Do you often eat strange things in food?

There is wool in chewing gum

Chewing gum tastes soft and chewy. How is it made? Chewing gum is mainly composed of gum. When it cools, it becomes as chewy as bark. In order to soften chewing gum, lanolin is added. Lanolin is a liquid oil extracted from wool and sheepskin. With it, chewing gum will no longer be like bark or tire.

There is hair in the bread

If you have ever made bread or cake at home, you will find that the shape and taste of the bread are not quite the same every time. However, why can the bread made in the grocery store maintain a similar shape and taste? That’s because they have a secret – hair.

Of course, it does not refer to the hair itself, but an amino acid extracted from the hair – cysteine. Cysteine, known as “dough improver”, can maintain the stability of bread quality. Hair is rich in cysteine, which is an important source of cysteine. It can be said that the production of bread is inseparable from hair.

There is sand in the milk powder

In powdered foods such as milk powder, cocoa powder and instant coffee, there is often such an additive – silica. Silica is the main component of sand. It is a fine and porous material.

Silica and powdery food can be mixed to wrap food powder particles and separate them. The inner pores can absorb water, prevent the food powder from agglomerating, and facilitate storage and consumption.

There are insects in red color sweets.

Do you like red candy or cake? These red may not be the color of the food itself, but may come from a small insect called cochineal insect. Cochineal insect is a kind of insect parasitic on cactus plants.

When a cactus parasitized by cochineal insects is pinched, it will flow out bright red “blood”. In fact, this is the red pigment in cochineal insects. People collect cochineal insects, crush and dry them, and then they become natural non-toxic pigments, which are commonly used in food, cosmetics, drugs and other industries.

There is wood pulp in the cheese

Cheese is a kind of fermented dairy products, which has special flavors such as acid, salty, sweet and milk aroma. It can not only be used as snacks, but also provide multi-level flavor for meals. We can buy a kind of crushed cheese in the supermarket. It doesn’t stick together wet like other fermented products, but dry round strips.

This is because some pulp is added to the cheese, which is rich in cellulose, which helps prevent cheese fragments from gathering together. Wood pulp will pass through gastrointestinal tract directly, and will not be absorbed by human body, and it will not harm us, and it is a compliant food additive.

There is wax on the gelatin gum

Have you ever eaten gelatin gum? Did you find that the surface of the fudge is very smooth and looks like a layer of oil? In fact, they were waxed. This wax comes from the leaves of Brazilian palm trees and is called “Brazilian palm wax”.

During the dry season, palm trees in Brazil secrete a layer of wax oil to cover the surface of leaves to avoid water loss. People take the leaves, cut the vein, take out the wax oil and dry them, and then get the powder wax. This wax can be used as a brightener, chemical solvent and thickener for ink for candy and pills, or can be ignited directly as a candle.