Myspace blog from April 4, 2009

They put WHAT in my yogurt?!?!?!

So I have been on a health kick lately – trying to avoid certain things and be more aware of what I am eating. It’s a pretty big pain in the ass because food these days is full of crap for the most part. So anytime I come across something on a food label I am not sure about, I have been checking it out.

This morning while I was enjoying my delicious container of strawberry Yoplait, I happened to read the ingredients. (I have been fighting with the idea of ‘kosher gelatin’ in my yogurt for quite some time so I was checking to see how the new kind of organic yogurt I bought compared to Yoplait) One of the ingredients listed was Carmine. Suddenly a light bulb went off in my head and I realized HEY! I don’t know what I’m eating and that doesn’t sound right.

This is what I googled:

http://www.naturalnews.com/002043.html

Turns out, our friend Carmine is a coloring agent they put in food to make it look delicious and it happens to be made out of CRUSHED BEETLES.

Crushed beetles? Really? I don’t know which disgusts me more… the fact that they are putting beetles in my yogurt or the fact that they are doing that and listing it as “Carmine” so I don’t know they are doing it.

Needless to say, I tossed the rest of my yogurt and ate an english muffin for breakfast.