I went shopping in a new store today. At first I was excited to find something with 100% juice that wasn’t absurdly expensive. But then I looked at the ingredients and saw cochineal extract, AKA carmine, AKA crushes beetles used to make things red.
I just don’t understand. You’ve got this juice, you could totally add beet juice for coloring and achieve a beautiful color. But no, gotta throw insects into it instead. As far as hidden non-vegan ingredients go, stuff from insects tends to fly under the radar. Yet I bet if more people were aware of what they were buying, even non-vegans would take issue with it.
Is this not just… beetlejuice?
Beetlejuice?!
Beetlejuice!
I’m the ghost with the most, babe.
Ghostest with the mostest!!
Wait til you hear about the Antarctic fish blood in the icecream
aye, so, I just searched “Antarctic fish blood in the icecream” and did not find anthing but articles on icefish and some fish that has antifreeze for blood.
Id like to know more, whats the ingredient name?
Possibly this
Www.popsci.com/science/fake-fish-blood-freezer-burn
It’s synthetic, not sure of it fits a vegan ethic but the paper is linked there
Ala/Glu polypeptides. As has been mentioned they are mainly(?) lab grown now. An Ultrapotent, Ultraeconomical, Antifreeze Polypeptide - McPartlon - 2026 - Advanced Materials - Wiley Online Library https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202420504
The what in the what, now?
They use gmo yeast similar to nooch now. Rare blood is expensive. If cows or chickens had that property we’d be fucked
WHAT?
Juice still isn’t AI generated?
There is yet hope for humanity!! (/s)Only in America
Beet would not produce enough colour.
Only in America
Yes, in many countries coal tar dye is still used.
And where does the “natural flavor” come from?
Your choices are petroleum or beetles. Take your pick.
0% sugar my fucking ass. I hate shit like this. A tablespoon is ~12 grams of sugar. Your daily recommended (by the USDA, the people tasked with selling more agricultural products) sugar is 50 grams. So a mere 8oz of this shit has half of the sugar you are supposed to get in a 24 hour period but it’s 0%… fuck this lying bullshit.
