Would you like a cow eyeball with your burger?
One of the more-enduring urban legends about McDonald’s is that their
hamburgers contain cow eyeballs. While this has not proven to be the
case, the company's Baked Hot Apple Pie does contain duck feathers, or
at least an ingredient commonly derived from such. Truth can be just as
strange as fiction.
How have duck feathers become a viable ingredient in apple pie? Welcome
to the world of food additives. People have been adding flavors,
spices, natural preservatives and ripening agents to food since
antiquity. But as the popularity of highly processed food has risen
dramatically since the 1950s, so has the astounding array of bizarre
chemical additives used in food manufacturing. Fast-food recipes seem to
be born more from the laboratory than from farm or field.
And although the powers that be deem these food-additive chemicals
safe, the science fiction of it all is a bit unsettling. How do we come
up with these things? Here are some of the wackiest of the bunch.
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