Food, like any other part of our life, is continually criticized or praised. Trying to make more money, manufacturers change the composition and trick the proportions. But not a single deception will pass by the subtle scent of gourmets!
- Lead Nestle
Nestle is known for its delicious chocolate spread and other sweets, but the company does not only produce these products. Nestle’s products included instant noodles, which were in great demand in the market. Until independent laboratory studies found that noodles were 7 times higher than the lead norm. The reputation of the popular company was severely damaged. The noodles had to be urgently disposed of and their production was closed.
- McDonald’s Meat Potatoes
Anyone who previously consumed McDonald’s chips and considered themselves a vegetarian was shocked by the true composition of this product. Potatoes contain meat flavor, and even a small amount will seem offensive to the principled vegetarian.
- Racist coffee shop
UK coffee chain Krispy Kreme has announced a new promotion called “KKK Wednesday”, which stands for “Krispy Kreme Lovers Club”. But the public rebelled, since in America a racist group already existed under the same acronym. The coffee shop suspended the action and apologized. But the sediment, as they say, remained.
- Chinese fake eggs
And we are not talking about chocolate eggs at all, but about chicken eggs. Why counterfeit such a popular and relatively inexpensive product is a mystery. But Chinese inventors meticulously made shells from calcium carbonate, and the protein and yolk from sodium alginate, gelatin and calcium chloride with the addition of water, starch, dyes and thickeners. The perpetrators were exposed and punished.
- Poisoned mexican grain
Mass poisoning with sad consequences occurred in Iran in 1971, when due to natural disasters, the grain harvest was completely destroyed and the country was threatened with famine. Help came from Mexico – wheat was imported, which, as it turned out later, was contaminated with methylmercury. As a result of the use of this product, 459 cases of brain damage, impaired coordination and loss of vision have been reported in humans.
- Water instead of juice
Manufacturers of baby food know how to take advantage of the weakness of parents who are trying to choose high-quality and healthy ones for their children. Perhaps the Beech-Nut company hoped that their parents would not think of trying their 100 percent apple juice, and young gourmets would not distinguish a fake from the original. And instead of juice, she released ordinary water with sugar for sale. For deliberate deception, Beech-Nut paid $ 2 million in compensation.
- Expired Chinese Meat
With products expired for several days, we meet quite often. But for 40 years ?! In 2015, just such a meat was discovered in China, which was distributed by scammers under the guise of a fresh product. The total value of the product was $ 500 million. The meat has been defrosted and frozen again many times. Fortunately, no one had time to use it and get poisoned.
- Lead Hungarian Paprika
Without spices, food tastes bland, so many of us will prefer various additives. One such condiment, paprika, has caused many deaths in Hungary. The manufacturer added lead to the paprika, but whether there was some reason for this or is it an absurd accident, the investigation is silent.
- Unnatural meat
The well-known fast food chain Subway is not the only one that claims to be false about the composition of its products. But it was they who came under the hot hand of the Canadian Broadcasting Research Corporation – their meat consisted only of half of natural raw materials, and the other half turned out to be soy protein. And it’s not so much about the composition as about lies.
- Radioactive oatmeal
In the 40-50s, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, secretly from consumers, fed students with radioactive oatmeal – accidentally or deliberately, remains a mystery. For such an oversight, the institute paid huge monetary compensation for the spoiled health of its students.