meg959

Guest Writer

It's meg959 here. I'm going to tell you what is in some of your favorite snacks and foods.

First, I will tell you what is in my favorite Mr. Christie Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chip Cookies. Hmmm... there is enriched wheat flour, semi sweet chocolate chips, sugar, vegetable oil shortening and lard, glucose-fructose, or liquid invert sugar, modified milk ingredient, sodium bicarbonate, salt, dried whole egg, ammonium bicarbonate, artificial flavor. Wow! There is a lot of weird ingredients that I can't even say. What is lard? Anyway, it sounds awful gross. And sodium bicarbonate and ammonium bicarbonate? What?

Next, I am going to talk about what's in Pepperidge Farm Goldfish. They are made from unbleached enriched wheat flour, riboflavin, partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening, cheddar and parmesan cheeses, salt, yeast, yeast extract, sugar, leavening, annatto, onion powder and spices. To me, the weirdest ingredient in this one was riboflavin. It sounds pretty weird huh? And this is a long name: partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening. Hmmm, vegetable shortening in crackers?

Well there you have it, the ingredients in chocolate chip cookies and Goldfish crackers. Now you know to think before you go taking your favorite snack out of the cupboard. Actually, come to think about it, it may not even be your favorite snack anymore!

Well, that's it for this time.

This is meg959 signing off *click*

Editor's Note: Well, I don't know about all that stuff, but I believe that vegetable shortening is a standard cooking item, lard is basically pure animal fat (not something you want to chow down on, but not a dangerous chemical, either), and riboflavin is a vital nutrient that everyone needs to have (I think it's one of the B-vitamins, actually).