The citric acid in a Celsius is grown by a mold, and the taurine was never near a bull. The list is carbonated water, citric acid, taurine, vegetable juice for color, guarana seed extract, green tea extract, caffeine, ascorbic acid, sucralose, glucuronolactone, ginger root extract and a vitamin pack. Citric acid, second on the list, hasn't come from citrus in a century. It's made by feeding sugar to Aspergillus niger, a black mold, in a tank. Taurine was first pulled out of ox bile in 1827, which is where the bull stories come from, but the taurine in every energy drink is built from ethylene oxide and ammonia. Glucuronolactone is a sugar your own liver makes, produced here from glucose. Sucralose is table sugar with 3 chlorine atoms swapped on so the body can't digest it, about 600 times sweeter than sugar. The caffeine comes from 3 places. Guarana seeds carry about twice the caffeine of a coffee bean by weight, green tea brings some, and pure caffeine is added on top, which is the only one the label has to call caffeine. Celsius prints the total, 200 mg, which the rule doesn't require. The vitamin pack runs 1000% of your biotin because biotin is cheap and water soluble and the panel looks better for it. The front says kiwi strawberry and the corner says 0% juice.

Vanilla ice cream has three legal names. The difference is a word or two on the front of the carton. Under FDA's ice cream standard, it's vanilla ice cream when there's no artificial flavor in it. It's vanilla flavored ice cream when there's some artificial flavor but the natural vanilla flavor predominates. When the artificial flavor predominates or is the only flavor, it has to say artificially flavored vanilla ice cream. The rule only sorts natural flavor from artificial. Vanillin, the main flavor compound in vanilla, can be made by fermenting other plant material and still count as natural, which puts it in the same category as the bean. In 2020 a federal judge in New York dismissed a suit over Wegmans vanilla ice cream. The front said natural vanilla flavor, and the list had no vanilla beans or extract. The judge said a buyer wants ice cream that tastes like vanilla. If you want vanilla from the bean, look for vanilla extract or vanilla beans in the ingredient list.

Slim Jim is made with mechanically separated chicken. The ingredients are beef, pork, mechanically separated chicken, water and textured soy flour, then corn syrup and salt. Mechanically separated chicken is what's left on the bones after the meat has been cut off. The bones are pushed through a sieve under high pressure, and the meat still stuck to them comes out as a smooth paste. USDA allows it, but it has to be listed by that name. The textured soy flour stretches the meat and holds water.

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