13 Gross Facts About The Food You Probably Eat Every Day

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13 Gross Facts About The Food You Probably Eat Every Day

Burger beef looks like, well, a single chunk of meat that came from a single animal, right? Well, looks can be deceiving. Here’s the full, Frankensteinian story, plus 12 others:

Jelly beans are made from animal skin and bone. They're mostly gelatin, which consists of the skin and bones of horses, pigs, and cattle that's boiled and filtered many times over before it's ground to a powder. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source: Snopes

Chances are, your ground beef has some pink slime. 70% of ground beef available at supermarkets contains pink slime, which is a cheap substitute for ground beef that's basically beef trimmings sprayed with ammonia to make it edible. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Source: ABCNews

Wheaties cereal has SO much iron, it sticks to magnets. That's because it's highly fortified with iron (like other foods, including baby formula), to help combat iron deficiency. NOW YOU KNOW

Source: Snopes

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