The 59 Ingredients in a Fast Food Strawberry Milkshake

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The 59 Ingredients in a Fast Food Strawberry Milkshake

- from Dr. Mercola's website

Now, that's not a very good start, is it? Fifty-nine ingredients. So, I

looked, and it turns out that in one fast food restaurant strawberry milkshake

from a big fast food chain, there are two ingredients that are notably absent:

Milk and Strawberries!! Does that put you off for life already? Well, let's see

if I can put you off a bit further.

It turns out that the strawberry flavor they use to flavor their milkshakes is

actually made from 40 different chemicals. Let me read you a couple of the names

of these chemicals. This is just the strawberry flavor. Forty different

chemicals:

Amyl valerate

Anethol

Ethyl lactate

Methylphenylglycidate (Oh, my word! That's a mouthful and a half!)

Ionone

Maltol

Methyl benzoate

That's just to name but a few of those 40 ingredients that go into their

strawberry flavoring.

Now, I don't know about you, but I've had strawberry milkshakes from fast food

chains before, and some of them are very, very tasty. But after finding out that

there's 59 ingredients, and that both milk and strawberries are absent from

these milkshakes, I can definitely say I've been put off for life, and I hope

you are as well.

Read more:

http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_blog/Fast-Food-Milkshakes-Exposed-27226.aspx

[Thanks to Steven Gibb.]

 

 

 

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