- [Narrator] In an age of mass consumption and instant gratification, the want to satisfy our
every gastric desire often leaves us all
oblivious to the truths surrounding the foods we eat. You might, in reality,
just find yourself chewing on a mouthful of lies. Here are 12 things you eat that are a lie. - Amazing! - [Narrator] Number 12, American Cheese. The bright orange cheese slices
made popular by Kraft Foods usually found inside the
Cinderella of American cooking, the cheeseburger, are
a staple in the corpus of the U.S. culinary
delight known as fast food. Yet they aren't quite what they seem. According to the FDA,
American cheese cannot be referred to as actual
cheese or as a cheese food because well, technically
and legally, it isn't. With less than 51% of real cheese in its constituent parts, the FDA
has ruled that American cheese isn't really an American cheese. That's why this item is
called a cheese product. Number 11, margarine. For decades margarine was marketed as the healthy alternative to the seemingly life
destroying devil, butter. This however couldn't be
further from the truth. Margarine can in fact
be quite harmful to the health of its consumers. Trans fatty acids found
within the composition of this product used
to increase shelf life are a common cause of cardio
vascular complications. On the other side of this feud, butter can be good for your health. It contains the right kinds of fats for a healthy balanced diet. A big marketing lie overall. Number ten, chicken tikka masala. Most would consider this popular dish a firm pillar of Indian cuisine. Or so it's made to seem by the restaurant and take out menus. In reality though, this
pillar doesn't stand quite as firmly as we may think, as the dish has a rather murky history. Chicken tikka masala is actually said to originate from Glasgow, Scotland. That's right, it's a British dish. For now anyways, so
long as Scotland decides to remain a part of Great Britain. Number nine, Pringles. Potato chips stacked in a tube. Well, kind of. The former parent company
of this popular brand claim that the snack can't and shouldn't be considered as potato chips at all. The argue that the potato
content of the chips in question reach only a meager 42%. On top of that, the potato
content comes only in the form of dehydrated potato flakes, which is used in a mix to make a dough out of which the slices are cut. Not exactly potato chips in
the full sense of the snack. Number eight, Naked Smoothies. Pepsico advertised this brand of smoothie as containing no added sugar. Helping the drink keep up its
facade as a health product. The reality is, however,
that these smoothies are no better for your body
than the most sugary of drinks. Although Pepsico claimed that the sugar in these fruit drinks naturally occurs from their ingredients, meaning that the no added
sugar label is accurate, the health marketing surrounding
the product is plain false. The smallest Naked
Smoothie bottle contains a similar amount of sugar as
a can of Pepsi, if not more. That's right on the
threshold of your daily recommended sugar intake, all
in one little fruit drink. Number seven, Crispy Seaweed. Certain types of seaweed are
used as culinary ingredients in many coastal regions around the globe. Perhaps it's most commonly thought of in reference to forms of Asian cuisine. Crispy seaweed, in particular,
is largely attributed to Chinese cooking. In the Western world
through slight of hand, you'll more often than not find yourself eating cabbage disguised as
this crispy edible marine plant. You see, crispy seaweed is often miss sold and replaced by deep fried cabbage leaves, seasoned in a similar way. Number six, Red Snapper. An Oceana Org investigation
conducted in 2013 discovered that there is
a U.S. nationwide problem with fraudulent seafood. The study shows that the
popular Red Snapper fish is the most mislabeled and
mis sold fish food product throughout the United States. Oceana reported that Red
Snapper are often substituted by 28 entirely different species of fish. And this happens in 93% of purchases. Meaning that there is
a very high probability of the Red Snapper you're eating being a complete and utter fake. Number five, Rocky Mountain Oysters. A dish unbeknownst to
many who aren't accustomed to the many reaches of good old ranch life commonly found in regions of
the U.S.A.'s great plains, in steakhouses and in delicatessen
joints around the world, one may be coaxed by
the name into thinking that this dish is made
up entirely of oysters gathered from the Rocky
Mountain territory. Even it's appearance adds gloss
to its unperceived falsity. Breaded, deep friend
oysters, or so you may think. Well, wrong. Rocky Mountain Oysters
are made exclusively from bull, pig or sheep testicles, deceiving to say the least. Number four, Aquafina. Another Pepsico drink,
another Pepsico fib. The label on this brand of bottled water reads across it, "pure water." But, according to Pepsico,
the water contained within the confines of the
bottle actually come from a public water source,
and what does this mean? Well, it means that Auqafina water comes from the very source
from which you and I drink our wonderfully free water from. It's nothing more than
filtrated tap water. Number three, Pumpkin Spice. There's a delightful variety of spices that when mixed together make
up the seasonally popular pumpkin spice flavor. The commercial stuff we
find laid in over seemingly anything and everything
throughout Autumn and Winter, a time abundant of pumpkin
spice flavored products, is disappointingly more
than likely to fall short of using any real spices. Commercial pumpkin
spice flavoring is often artificially made from
chemicals used to replicate the main flavor features of the key spices that go into real pumpkin spice. So, your pumpkin spice
latte could really just be a cup full of unadulterated chemicals. Number two, Nuts. Peanuts, walnuts, pecans and almonds are referred to as nuts
only in the culinary sense. In reality, they aren't nuts at all. Peanuts are in fact legumes. They are dry, edible seeds
contained in multiplicity within pods that start to
split when they're ripe. Making them closer to peas
and beans than to actual nuts. Walnuts, pecans and
almonds on the other hand are closer to peaches and plums. They are classified as droops, a fruit composed of a pulpy exterior that encases a hard shell
containing the seed. In the case of walnuts,
pecans and almonds, the seeds are eaten instead
of the pulpy exterior. In contrast, a true nut
is botanically defined as a singular dry fruit
encased in a hard outer coating that never splits open naturally. Some examples are chestnuts,
hazelnuts and acorns. Number one, Bananas. The bananas we find on
the supermarket shelves and in our homes are the
wonderfully edible results of thousands of years
of genetic modification. Meaning that they aren't
exactly as natural as we believe them to be. Artificial selection and
human vegetative cultivation, old school forms of genetic modification, have given us soft, easily
edible and infertile bananas in which the inactive
seeds are barely visible. Of course, the fact that they're infertile signifies that we're
unable to produce bananas by planting seeds and reaping the rewards of their offspring. Instead, banana production
requires human cultivation. A process where by bananas
are essentially cloned by planting part of the plant stem. Every banana we eat is a
genetic clone of all other mass produced bananas. What we eat is a far cry from
natural wild seeded bananas. Did any of these truths leave
a bad taste in your mouth? If you know of any other food lies, let us know in the comments below. (electronic music)
