OK, let's see what I've got home today from Sainsbury's. A popular Sainsbury's Bakery product (I know cuz I'm the cashier) in the usual clear tubs: 18 Rocky Road Bites. I'm going to type the ingredients for you guys:
Milk Chocolate (60%); Crisped Rice (14%),Currants (12%); White Marshmallows (7%); Digestive Biscuit Pieces (6%).
Milk Chocolate contains: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Liquor, Skimmed Milk Powder, Butter Oil, Whey Powder, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin.
Crisped Rice contains: Rice Flour, Wheat Flour, Sugar, Whey Malt Extract (from Barley), Salt, Sunflower Oil, Emulsifier: Sunflower Lecithin.
Currants Contains: Currants, Palm Oil.
White Marshmallows contains: Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Sugar, Water, Pork Gelatine, Anti Caking Agent: Maize Starch; Natural Flavouring.
Digestive Biscuit Pieces contains: Wheat Flour, Wholemeal Wheat Flour, Brown Sugar, Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, Skimmed Milk Powder, Raising Agents: Sodium Hydrogen Bicarbonate, Tartaric Acid; Salt, Treacle.
To be honest, I don't know what most of these are, what they are produced from, and how exactly they are produced. And I have no idea what the long-term effects of the emulsifiers are, what Pork Gelatine is exactly, why Sodium Hydrogen Bicarbonate is needed for the formula and what Tartaric Acid can do to your stomach, let alone to the cells all over your body once they're digested and absorbed. And all these are nothing, there was no word about artificial flavourings, preservatives, colours, all sorts of "agents", acids and chemicals, not to mention all the E-numbers. You can't seriously expect a lack of occurence of all sorts of illnesses, disorders and syndromes after you take all this cr@p into your own body, have them integrated into your cells, possibly messing with your cell structures, and God knows, passing stuff down to your future offsprings. After all, they form from the matter found in your body, and then they're nourished from your mild, and then of course you stuff them with the same **** again, especially those toxic sweets, just to shut them up or get them to obey you or bribe them into behaving temporarily, rahter than pass down understanding, respect and love by setting an example and teaching them responsibility. Nice modern cultures we have built up.
Edited by Rolci, 09 March 2012 - 01:38 AM.