Disgusting Stuff In Fast Food

Wood - Most of what you buy at the grocery store, from syrup to cereal, is made of wood. Cellulose comes in a variety of forms, but it all works the same way. It's a cheap, organic filler used in place of real ingredients. Plus it adds fiber to meals, so it can be advertised as healthy. Cellulose isn't necessarily bad for you, but you're paying for food and eating wood...

Sand - Silicon dioxide sand is used as an anti-caking agent for items like fast-food buffalo wings and chili, so it can can stay in a heater for days at a time.

Antidepressants and other drugs - Researchers from Johns Hopkins University tested bird feathers and found a list of feed additives, including banned antibiotics, antidepressants, allergy medications, arsenic, the active ingredient in Benadryl, caffeine, and other prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

Ammonia - Factory-farm conditions are full of bacteria and processing plants mix meat from hundreds or thousands of different cows, potentially creating a public health hazard in the mix. To try to make the meat "safer," the industry typically puts the beef through an ammonia gas bath.

Beaver Anal Gland Juice - This bitter, smelly, orange-brown substance known as castoreum, is used extensively in processed food and beverages, typically as vanilla or raspberry flavoring. In nature, it's combined with a beaver's urine and used to mark its territory. And yeah, the label will list the ingredient as "natural flavoring."

Antifreeze - Propylene glycerol is found in antifreeze and lubricants, and can also cause skin and eye irritation. Fast food restaurants use it in pre-packaged salads to keep the greens crisp.

Human Hair AND Duck Feathers - L-Cysteine is an amino acid used in dough conditioners, softening mass-produced breads. It's made from human hair or duck feathers. 80of L-cysteine is made of human hair, McDonald's uses the duck feather variety in its Baked Hot Apple Pie and Warm Cinnamon Roll.

Fertilizer - The chemical fertilizer ammonium sulfate, is added to some chain restaurant sandwich breads in order to feed yeast in the baking process.

Beetles - Carmine, a bright red food colorant, is actually the crushed abdomen of the female Dactylopius coccus, an African beetle-like insect. Look for it in red candies, red-tinted yogurts and juicesit's often listed as carmine, crimson lake, cochineal, or natural red 4 on ingredient labels.

Dimethylpolysiloxane - If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't eat it. A lot of takeout rice is covered in a clear, non-flammable chemical also found in adhesives and caulk, dimethylpolysiloxane.