March just blew by without a blog post in sight. Sorry about that. Good news! My readership has doubled from 2 readers, to 4 readers so I'll get to stay in business! Now that I'm not just writing to myself, I had better step up my game. Not likely. But I am happy to catch up on some of my musings and studies.Yesterday was a disastrous, but enlightening experiment...
As of December, I haven't had any refined sugar, or artificial colors/flavors (in their pure forms). I may have accidentally had this stuff in restaurant food, but I haven't had any candy, cakes or soda pop, etc. that use refined sugar or corn syrup. Sure there's been some maple syrup, and raw, cold-pressed agave syrup in an organic treat now and again, but that's it! Yesterday, Brian and I had our usual weekly free day, but decided we'd really go off rails. I mean, we decided to go NUTZ! If you know this diet, then you know that 7-11 (our local convenient store) is not the place to be purchasing Weston Price approved foods. We were like a couple of recovering drug addicts that just met a free dealer and found out our baby was hit by a bus and there was nothing left to live for. We went off the deep end. Off the deep end these days was an average day in the past: Twizzlers, Skittles, Sour Patch Kids, Reeces Peanut Butter Cups AND Sprite... No. 2 Corn (corn syrup) aside, the levels of artificial coloring in those products could kill a large rat.
Well, I'm not a large rat, more like a large monkey (pic below is me, after taking my dose of Skittles), but lemme tell you...I could have DIED today from pain. Before today, I have been
glowing. Seriously, no exaggeration, no-tooting-my-own-horn-vanity... Glowing! Strangers have remarked on how healthy I look. I have felt good. good. good. Whatever pain I've felt has been the result of weight lifting and not from toxic sludge in the sewers of my intestines. Not today. Today, I woke up in so much pain. Had it been just me, I would have written it off as a bit of arthritis or tendonitis, but Brian was in pain and he's like the hulk, usually. He doesn't bitch and moan about his aches and pains like I can. I couldn't move my hands. My knees were almost worthless and on fire. And Brian was hobbling around complaining about his knees, too. It's 8:00pm the following day, almost 24 hrs later, and I'm just starting to type without pain. Brian said we hit bottom. All addicts need to know their bottom; sometimes we need to know our edge, to know how far, is far enough. Mark my words-- NEVER will I eat a bag of Skittles again, or Twizzlers, or Sour Patch Kids (but really Skittles are what I ate yesterday). **Hey don't get me wrong-- I LOVE Skittles, I used to eat at least a bag a week, and you should too.**Skittles. What's in them? The bag claims that they are an excellent source of Vitamin C. Really? They are also an excellent source of No. 2 Corn. The second ingredient is corn syrup, and if you're one of my third grade readers, you know that "corn syrup is bad" and a whole lot of poison on a deep existential, humanitarian, cultural, economic and agricultural level. Apparently, there's also some beef in Skittles (does that mean I get my protein!?), but I'm not sure if it's 100% grass fed. Shucks, my guess is-- not. My guess is there are probably some downer cows in that gelatin, but that's only a personal best guess...
In response to your email regarding SKITTLES BITE SIZE CANDIES. Thanks for your email. The gelatin used in our SKITTLES BITE SIZE CANDIES is derived from beef. The gelatin used in our STARBURST FRUIT CHEWS is also derived from beef with the exception of our STARBURST GUMMIBURSTS where the gelatin is derived from pork. We hope this information is helpful.
Have a great day!
Your Friends at Mars Snackfood US
It must be that beefy gelatin that give
s them a nice chewy, floor wax texture. Here is Skittle’s ingredient list, which you cannot find on the psychedelic trip through their website:
Sugar, Corn Syrup, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Apple Juice from Concentrate, Less than 2% Citric Acid, Dextrin, Modified Corn Starch, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Coloring (Includes Yellow 6 Lake, Red 40 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Yellow 5, Red 40, Yellow 6, Blue 1 Lake, Blue 1), Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C).
I don't see beef, or gelatin, on the ingredient list, so which ingredient is the gelatin? Dextrin? Yes, and after a quick Google search I found out that Dextrin is also great for use in Pyrothechnics! WTF is all this crap? There are EIGHT artificial colorings. Wow. And I was wondering why I felt like I took a dose of poison. I can't compute this. I feel like I need a PhD in Food Engineering to understand what this all means. I'm pretty sure none of this is actually food? I'm truly overwhelmed, so I'm going to just stay focused on the Apple Juice. Thank goodness there is some apple juice in there so I didn't completely poison myself.**This is a disclaimer statement. The author of this blog has no ill will toward Skittles or Mars Snackfood US**
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