Showing posts with label wonder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wonder. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

It makes you Wonder

For those of you that have never viewed the classic sci-fi film Soylent Green, SPOILER ALERT: It turns out that in 2022 the Soylent Corporation, a company that produces processed rations for the entire world has been claiming that the Soylent Green ration is made from "high-energy plankton" but is actually made from people. I'm sorry, but you've had nearly 30 years to see the movie and that's plenty of time.

Now I know that may be an extreme example but it does beg the question; Just what is in the food that I'm eating? For instance, last week in the bakery section of our small grocery store I bought a lovely loaf of fresh bread and when I flipped it over to check out the ingredients, they were flour, milk, eggs and yeast. Wandering a few isles down to the "bread" isle, I grabbed a loaf of Wonder out of curiosity and flipped that over; Here's what I found:

Ingredients

Made with Enriched Wheat Flour (Flour, Flour, Barley Malt, Ferrous Sulfate (Iron)B Vitamins (Niacin, Thiamine, Mononitrate (B1)Riboflavin (B2)Folic Acid)Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Potato Flour, Yeast, Buttermilk. contains 2% or less of: Wheat Gluten, Dough Conditioners (Potassium Bromate, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Alpha Amylase)Soy Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Monoglycerides, Monocalcium Phosphate, Calcium Sulfate, Calcium Propionate (to retain freshness)

Am I missing something here?