20 Terrifying Facts Food Companies Don't Want You to Know

By:: Cracked Plasticians

June 12, 2013

You know all those fluorescent orange chips, and fruit shaped candy you stuff down your gullet aren't good for you. But what's mind-blowing is just how diabolical the people who sell you junk food are when it comes to getting you hooked. We asked our readers to dig up facts that'll make you want to eat carrots for the rest of your life. The winner is below, but first the runners-up ...

20 Entry by anakedjew

Yogurt. it's part of a complete breakfast! It's good for you! Right? Well, it used to be, when it was just plain old yogurt. Maybe throw a little frui

19 Entry by Ted E.

SUBWAY'S advertised nutritional values do NOT include the condiments, dressing, or cheese you undoubtedly requested along with your sub. mans W sat Th

18 Entry by Lunachick71

Applebee's Oriental Chicken Salad has 1,310 calories, 93 grams of fat and 1,470 milligrams of sodium. Eating this salad is worse than eating a mediu

17 Entry by PandaPoo

CEREAL MANUFACTURERSSPENDU TWICE AS MUCH ONADVERTISING AS THEY DO ONTHE INGREDIENTS THAT Go INTO THEM VALUE NTE & SIZE Kellogpg LFADOT LCOPS

16 Entry by PandaPoo

Some Of The Largest Companies Have Used Brain Scans To Find That Our Brains React To Sugar & Cocaine In Very Similar Ways Sugorcaine CRACKED.COM

15 Entry by ObsidianCrimson

IN AMERICA, WE HAVE ALL THESE LOW-SUGAR AND DIET FOODS TO CHOSE FROM!! corne2y WholeGrain hles 6368 Guaranteed original FIBER NE BRAN CERLAL 57 lu

14 Entry by PandaPoo

Even at Healtiny Buffets You Will Likely Overeat To GeT Your Moriey's Worth

13 Entry by PandaPoo

Studies have shown that watching TV makes people unaware of how much they are eating. The average American will spend 9 years watching TV. CRACKED COM

12 Entry by Nightfly

ACCORDING TO OUTBACK'S OWN WEBSITE, THE BLOOMIN' ONIOND APPETIZER HAS ABOUT2, 000 CALORIES. OTHER SOURCES PUT IT CLOSE TO .000 CALORIES. THAT'S MORE

11 Entry by noah123456789

A Children's Food Campaign (CFC) survey found that some baby food has as much, if not more, saturated fats and sugar as junk food CRACKED.COM

10 Entry by noah123456789

Taco Bell's taco meat is only 36% beef. TACO BELL. TACO EELL 2507 The list of ingredients for Taco Bell's beef include water, soy lecithin, an anti-

9 Entry by kerbinsour

Almost 80% of food commercials aired on Saturday morning children shows are for junk food. CRACKEDCON

8 Entry by noah123456789

GRAGKEDrOM OON The creamy middle of a Twinkie is not cream at all but mostly Crisco, which is vegetable shortening.

7 Entry by Mike Bedard

Low fat almost never means low-calorie. Applebee's low fat chicken quesadillas contain 742 calories. A Big Mac contains 540. CRACKEDCON

6 Entry by PandaPoo

8E 880O 0080 EEEEEDB DODD nonon In 52 of a recent study, % Americans believed doing their taxes wass easier than figuring out how to eat healthy CRACK

5 Entry by Comunacho

HIGH-CARBOHYDRATE DIETS PRODUCE RESISTANCE TO THE HORMONE LEPTIN, WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SATISFACTION YOU FEEL AFTER EATING, AND THE REDUCTION O

4 Entry by noah123456789

Dunkin Donuts sells 6. 4 million donuts per day $ They sell 2.3 billion per year

3 Entry by Alex Race

In 1999, several presidents and c.E.O.'s of America's largest food companies held a private meeting where they discussed ways to tackle the growing ob

2 Entry by kuan

YOU WOULD'T EAT 22 PACKS OF SUGAR -aar Sugar Sugar (QUANTITY IN CRACKEDCON Sugar IS A 20OZ SODA)

1 Entry by kamiyu910

Jack Wendys M BURGER DELTACO KING IN-N-OUT Carls Fr. 90 BILBN BCHOME BURGER in the box Now that's bcHter Kellogg's Post Dairy Twinkies Queen NABISCO E

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