Learning Something Unpleasant About Your Food
By Amber
@AmbiePam (93297)
United States
July 29, 2023 12:44pm CST
I was reading an article on Yahoo this past week, and it was a story about gross things you might not know about your food. One, was about store bought, sliced loaves of bread. I won’t share it to avoid ruining anyone’s sandwich they are having for lunch (some of you may already know what it is). It basically explains why a loaf of bread in a store lasts longer than the bread you make at home. You might want to invest in a bread maker.
Or you might not want to, as you’ve been eating store bought bread for a long time, and you have been perfectly fine. I had a sandwich for lunch, even knowing what my bread has in it.
It’s different to me when it’s something like the artificial sweetener, aspartame. Since it is labeled a carcinogen, I’m going to try to avoid ingesting it (not saying a Diet Coke is going to give you cancer, don’t get me wrong).
So, can you find out something gross about your food, and it not bother you? Pretty much all of our food has something; from a pesticide on fruit to bugs in ketchup (that isn’t new news & I’ve seen Mylotters mention it). What do you think?
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32 responses
@hillhjill (23717)
• United States
29 Jul 23
Most of the food that we eat is fake or it's banned everywhere but here.
Like when it comes to meat, they ground it up and then place it together in strips...(steak and such)
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@hillhjill (23717)
• United States
29 Jul 23
@AmbiePam we will honestly, even that we know how our food is made..and now lab meat and lab grown eggs etc ..they are out to get us!!
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@AmbiePam (93297)
• United States
29 Jul 23
@hillhjill I cannot fathom eating lab meat, but yet people will, and claim it is safe even though it is way too soon to know long term effects.
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I thought of you guys grinding your own wheat when I wrote this.
@crossbones27 (49525)
• Mojave, California
29 Jul 23
I am not the healthiest of people but the fake sweeter stuff gets me every time. I feel diabetic if I even know what that feels like. I just feel off and dizzy. I stay away from all their fake sugar's , but its so much more healthy than real sugar. My body says otherwise and I put a lot of bad things in my body and never has that reaction. 
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@crossbones27 (49525)
• Mojave, California
29 Jul 23
@AmbiePam I used to be, now I normal like everyone else. This crap sucks miss lady.
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@Metsrock69 (3582)
• United States
29 Jul 23
I eat all kinds of food and never look at the labels. I am sure my insides look like a junk yard
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@Chellezhere (5739)
• United States
29 Jul 23
I have never been a big bread eater. Bread does not like me, if you catch my drift.
Yes, I can find a lot of things gross about food here, especially processed food, but what "they" do to many natural foods doesn't help either.
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@Chellezhere (5739)
• United States
29 Jul 23
@AmbiePam I wasn't given anything I could not handle - well, except my sweet tooth. That is sometimes hard to handle. But, I do try my best to stick with all-natural foods because of my food allergies and sensitivities.
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@allknowing (137054)
• India
30 Jul 23
Some pesticides are systemic and some contact. While contact pesticides can be got rid of by washing the ones that are systemic remain in the vegetables and fruits for almost 8 days . Farmers are expected to harvest them only after 8 days they are sprayed on but I do not think they follow that rule.
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@Juliaacv (51298)
• Canada
29 Jul 23
I like to make our own food, I trust that for the most part.
Otherwise, I feel like we have to pick our battles, and eating is a necessary battle that we have to come to terms with.
Noth that I would run out and start eating things that I have banished from my diet, such as pork, in the past number of years.
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@wolfgirl569 (106998)
• Marion, Ohio
29 Jul 23
I eat hot dogs even knowing what they have in them
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@MarshaMusselman (38863)
• Midland, Michigan
30 Jul 23
I didn't realize that aspartame was a carcinogen although I knew it was bad for us. Recently I received why nitrates are bad and they are also carcinogens. So, I'm watching for meats cured naturally instead. I actually found a pepperoni without nitrates and it's priced about the same.
Years ago someone shared about a yogurt I was eating at the time that was thickened with tilapia. I thought that was gross and couldn't eat that any more. I'm fact I wrote a blog article about that very thing.
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@AmbiePam (93297)
• United States
30 Jul 23
Hi, Marsha! It’s so good to see you!
Yes, I remember as a teenager my mom told me aspartame could also cause dementia. That was enough for me to say no thank you as dementia runs in my family anyway.
I didn’t even realize you could get pepperoni without nitrates, so that’s pretty cool!
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@MarshaMusselman (38863)
• Midland, Michigan
30 Jul 23
@AmbiePam It's not labeled as pepperoni but rather chorizo, but it tastes the same.
My sister has the beginning of Alzheimer's/dementia and was told to get sugar out of her diet. That's been a hard change for her.
It also runs in my family. Thankfully I pretty much gave up sugar when I began my keto journey five years ago.
Now I have to get ready for church and work after that. But maybe I'll come visit a little bit again.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84086)
• Rupert, Idaho
30 Jul 23
If I worried too much about stuff like that, I would probably starve being a picky eater. And even if the artificial sweeteners are "bad" for us...I will never give up my zero sugar coke/pepsi. Bugs in ketchup? EWW! But as long as I don't see or taste them...lol
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84086)
• Rupert, Idaho
31 Jul 23
@AmbiePam Oh really? Well that is interesting. Although I haven't heard of diet drinks doing much.
@lazydaizee (6735)
• United Kingdom
30 Jul 23
I did wonder why my homemade bread went stale a lot sooner than shop brought bread, I thought I was making it wrong.
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@snowy22315 (181197)
• United States
29 Jul 23
I guess unless I get sick, I am not going to spend too much time thinking about it honestly. I have real stuff to worry about honestly, and don't need to add to the list.
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@LindaOHio (179778)
• United States
30 Jul 23
It's much better than it was in the 1920s or 30s. Read the Jungle by Upton Sinclair. You will be glad that you live in the 21st century. I'm going to try to stop drinking Classic Diet Coke Caffeine Free. I'm going to try to get back to drinking Diet Rite Cola which has sucralose. Diet Rite also comes in other flavors. It seems that everything you eat or drink has something wrong with it. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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@stapllotik (1933)
• India
30 Jul 23
My concern is about the cooking oil. Apart from whatever you have mentioned above, in our local packaged food industry, palm oil is used extensively, which is highly harmful for health. I want to tell all those people that, please use good quality oil, even if it costs a little more. Don't compromise with our health.
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@Treborika (17695)
• Mombasa, Kenya
30 Jul 23
I have been taking the store bread for all of my entire life and I am very much comfortable with that.
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@terramars (166)
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29 Jul 23
I've read similar articles, and it can be a little unsettling to think about what we're putting in our bodies. But, I think if we eat store-bought bread occasionally, it's probably not going to have a significant impact on our health. I guess. Maybe.
And, if I find out something gross about my food, I'll take it into account, but I'm not going to let it ruin my enjoyment of food. Because I loveeee foods! I loveee eating
And, if I find out something gross about my food, I'll take it into account, but I'm not going to let it ruin my enjoyment of food. Because I loveeee foods! I loveee eating1 person likes this
That's the attitude to have!