⤷ disgusting food facts .ᐟ — a 🧵 for E D R T W T .

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A thread sharing disgusting facts about common foods, including that gelatin is made from animal bones, parmesan uses calf stomach enzymes, blue cheese and brie contain intentional mold, and chocolate and peanut butter can have insect fragments. The author notes these are all normal foods with unavoidable ingredients but mentions they personally find these facts appetite-suppressing.

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⤷ disgusting food facts .ᐟ — a 🧵 for E D R T W T .
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1. gelatin 𖹭 made by boiling down collagen from animal skin , bones , cartilage , and connective tissue . basically , your gummy bears can contain it . 2. parmesan 𖹭 traditional parmesan uses animal rennet , an enzyme traditionally taken from the stomachs of young calves .
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3. blue cheese 𖹭 those pretty blue veins ? literally mold . penicillium cultures are intentionally grown inside the cheese . 4. brie 𖹭 that soft white "skin" isn't just cheese — it's a layer of edible mold grown deliberately on the outside .
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5. chocolate 𖹭 cocoa beans can contain tiny insect fragments because they're agricultural products . food standards allow very small unavoidable amounts . 6. peanut butter 𖹭 same cursed situation . tiny insect fragments can occur during harvesting and processing .
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7. honey 𖹭 it's not always perfectly "clean" — microscopic traces of bees , wax , pollen , and other natural material can end up in it .
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thats all ! its completely normal to eat them , these are very commen foods . personally , these help me not want to eat / suppress my appetite. thank you 𖹭