Everybody Loves Ice Cream

Ice cream has long been one of America’s favorite desserts. But have you ever noticed that spilled ice cream sometimes hardens and refuses to be washed off with water? Perhaps the content of the ice cream has something to do with it.

Additive Requirements Are Not Strictly Regulated

Ice cream manufacturers are not required by law to list the additives used in the manufacture of their product. Consequently, today most ice creams are synthetic from start to finish. Ice cream makers are giving us a wide variety of delicious flavors. BUT ARE THEY FIT TO EAT?

The national research council undertook a survey to determine the chemicals being used in the ice cream industry as substitutes for natural flavors, colors and emulsifiers. There were over 100. There’s hardly any ice cream flavor that doesn’t have a chemical substitute. Some of the artificial flavors are potent poisons, powerful enough to cause liver, kidney and heart damage.

Benzyl acetate is a synthetic chemical that imparts strawberry flavor. According to the Merck Index, an encyclopedia for chemists, it warns that this substance can cause vomiting and diarrhea. It is also a nitrate solvent. Ethyl acetate is used by many manufacturers to give their product a pineapple flavor. This is a substance that can cause liver, kidney and heart damage. It is also used as a cleaner for leather and textiles, and its vapors have been known to cause chronic lung, liver and heart damage.

Peperonal is used in place of vanilla. This is a chemical used to kill lice. Vanillin is also a chemical used to produce a vanilla flavor. It is made from the wastes of wood pulp and has no relationship to the vanilla bean. Then there’s amyl butyrate to replace banana. It’s also used as an oil paint solvent.

Aldehyde c 17 is used to flavor cherry ice cream. It is an inflammable liquid which is used in aniline dyes, plastic and rubber.

Butrakiehyde is used in nut-flavored ice cream. It’s one of the ingredients in rubber cement.

Diethyl glycol is the same chemical used in antifreeze and in paint removers. Because it is cheap, it is used in ice cream as an emulsifier instead of eggs. According to the Merck Index, it is sufficiently toxic to cause liver and kidney damage.

When it comes to using artificial colors, ice cream makers can use any of the dyes on the FD & C list. In the lat few years a number of the dyes were outlawed after lab tests showed they were cancer producers. Maybe the presence of poisonous impurities is of little significance when making radiator alcohols and paint removers, but it is highly important in the American diet.

The average American consumes 24 quarts of ice cream a year. But the next time you’re tempted by a luscious banana split, think of it as a mixture of oil and nitrate solvent, antifreeze and lice killer, and you won’t find it so appetizing.

I would suggest that if you must eat ice cream, consume all-natural ice cream that doesn’t contain any artificial fats, chemicals, flavorings or preservatives - You'll be glad you did!

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