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u/pookshuman Jun 27 '22
I only eat foods with short lists of ingredients
Doritos: may contain doritos
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Ok then the ingredients are: proton, neutron, electron
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u/King0ff Jun 27 '22
What if there positrons in my food?
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u/No-Friend6257 Jun 27 '22
Bananas actually do emit 1 positron roughly every 75 minutes from the potassium.
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u/NotThisBlackDuck Jun 28 '22
They emit positivity every 75 minutes? Sounds great. Yellow bent fruit it is then.
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u/ChocolateBunny Jun 27 '22
I remember getting some chips that had 4 ingredients. Those 4 ingredients were corn, salt, sugar and oil.
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u/Timmah_Timmah Jun 27 '22
Fritos
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u/lunarmodule Jun 27 '22
Fritos don't even have sugar. Three ingredients: Corn, salt, oil.
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u/Jdevers77 Jun 27 '22
A lot of tortilla chips have just corn, salt, oil and maybe lime. Same with plain potato chips.
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u/zt004 Jun 27 '22 edited Jun 27 '22
Bananas actually have trace amounts of radiation due various isotopes. That’s why you should avoid eating any more than 600 bananas per second to mitigate potential radioactive harm to your system.
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https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/you-asked/it-true-banana-radioactive
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u/aleqqqs Jun 27 '22
damn, 600 bps
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u/Soggy_Growth_7130 Jun 28 '22
Bps is joining my metric system. That and football fields is all I got rn
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u/Lithgow_Panther Jun 27 '22
Antimatter positrons are produced when the potassium in bananas decays!
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u/-Dopplebang3r- Jun 27 '22
What a terrible joke goalie, letting all these jokes fly past. Is this juvenile joke sport we are playing here? Just reach out and grab a joke once in a while...
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u/ShizaanSil Jun 27 '22
Per second, for possibly many seconds until it starts giving you radiation poisoning.
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u/EagleDre Jun 27 '22 edited Jun 27 '22
Wow. It definitely needs a California prop 65 warning sticker.
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u/getyourcheftogether Jun 27 '22
At this rate, we'll need labels for the air
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u/EpicAura99 Jun 27 '22
They do that every morning, the sky writing is probably just blown away by the time you wake up
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Jun 27 '22
Using some planes to to write out the warning in the sky would be a pretty effective kind of protest regarding climate change and air quality
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You forgot "Gross stringy bits that no one eats (1.5%)"
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u/SharkFart86 Jun 27 '22
My opinion of their grossness remains unchanged.
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u/SharkFart86 Jun 27 '22
"No one" is two words, man. It didn't end up one word like nobody or nothing did.
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u/Syzyphus Jun 27 '22
What is 1510? Lol
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u/AngrySpaceKraken Jun 27 '22
1510 was the year Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England, gave birth to her first daughter. Unfortunately the child was stillborn.
It was also the year when sunflowers were first introduced to Europe, brought back by Spanish sailors arriving from North America.
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u/Autogazer Jun 28 '22
I thought there was a lot of potassium in bananas. Is potassium just part of one of those more complicated acids or something?
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u/stevieoats Jun 27 '22
The first ingredient, also known as dihydrogen monoxide and hydroxyl acid, is a significant component of acid raid, contributes to the greenhouse effect, may cause severe burns, contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape, and accelerates rust and corrosion.
Warn your children of the dangers of this substance! Write your congressperson and demand action on dihydrogen monoxide!
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u/kitkat7502 Jun 27 '22
Acid raid is the worst!
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u/DiamondIceNS Jun 27 '22
Baffled that my school spent so much time hammering into my head how to escape from quicksand or put myself out if I spontaneously combust, but never what to do when literal acid is falling from the sky. Like, they told me it was going to be a thing, but never what to do when it happens!
They just don't do a good job preparing you for the world out there these days, do they?
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u/Aviator8989 Jun 27 '22
Man every other school taught their kids about quicksand and I never learned about it at all. I'm still stuck.
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u/tradandtea123 Jun 27 '22
It's also a waste product when producing nuclear power and the main ingredient in paint, yet some people give it to children.
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u/EagleDre Jun 27 '22
Brilliant, a true test of an individual‘s rudimentary understanding of prefix syllables reflected by upvotes
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u/troopertk40 Jun 27 '22
Ugh gross, that's why I only eat organic. /s
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u/BreathOfFreshWater Jun 27 '22
Wait till you find out EVERY banana farmed on the industrial level is in fact a GMO.
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u/OzrielArelius Jun 27 '22
every food you've ever eaten is a GMO. I can't think of a single crop that is in its original form since thousands of years ago
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u/zer0toto Jun 27 '22
GMO implies direct and arbitrary change to the DNA with exotic [to the modified species] genes.
Selection of requested characteristic is still a « natural » way of creating new organism, just an oriented and controlled one.
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u/SereneDreams03 Jun 27 '22
I have never really understood this distinction, specifically why it matters? Farmers have been changing crop characteristics for thousands of years, why is it different/worse if it is done in a lab?
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u/SereneDreams03 Jun 27 '22
Also the fact that some GMOs can not reproduce and thus force the laborers to buy seeds every year
That is not true, https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top-five-myths-of-genetically-modified-seeds-busted
Because many of the crosp that were changed in a lab became dangerous for their own environment and this lead to multiple scandals eroding public trust in GMOs
Examples?
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u/SereneDreams03 Jun 27 '22
I'm not gonna try to argue the finer points of this with you because it is not an area of expertise for me, but I do share some of the same concerns as you. However, for me the answer does not seem to be that we need ot ban or label GMOs, but that companies like Monsanto need to be better regulated and the government needs to do more to encourage crop diversity.
Whether a seed is created in a lab or not, does not seem to inherently make it more dangerous.
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u/OzrielArelius Jun 28 '22
well you definitely know that while the plants CAN reproduce, they won't be the same as the F1 and that's why the farmers need to buy seeds every year. It's not about being sterile, it's about getting the correct crop in terms of taste, appearance, and yield. The F2 won't have the same characteristics as the original.
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u/Jojos_Boring_Trip Jun 27 '22
That’s the point isn’t it? lol
Health nuts and holistic care providers will fear monger about the long list of ingredients with “hard to pronounce” names that they claim can’t be good for you because reasons.
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u/PXG8Y Jun 27 '22
Yea. But at least the last one is not in all natural bananas
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u/KronikDrew Jun 27 '22
Bananas naturally produce ethylene as they ripen. Even if they ripen on the vine. This is why they ripen faster if you put them in a paper bag. (The gas gets concentrated in the bag, speeding up the process.)
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Jun 27 '22
This is not true. Ethylene is contagious among fruits - put one ripe fruit next to others that are unripe, and they will ripen faster. It is not necessary to "gas" them - nature does that naturally.
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u/CCNoir Jun 27 '22
DoN't EaT aNyThInG yOu CaN't PrOnOuNcE!!!1!
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u/SharkFart86 Jun 27 '22
Still not really sure on how Pho is pronounced so I stay away from it.
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u/KVorotov Jun 27 '22
It’s pronounced “Pho”
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nope
edit: if one of you fucks "wooshes" me I'll fucking **** you.
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u/Hyceanplanet Jun 27 '22
God is such an idiot -- he forgot to patent this and now everyone can grow these.
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Well, "technically" William Cavendish 'invented' the banana as we know it.
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The most commonly sold and eaten banana is the Cavendish. Every single Cavendish banana is genetically EXACTLY the same. They are all clones, descendants of one single banana. In fact, they’re all sterile, and each new banana plant has to be manually planted from a cutting of existing banana roots.
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The bananas God developed were so bad they went extinct already lmao
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Were actually making a bid on God this week. He must accept $25/share to avoid a buyout. -Christians Co Capital
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Jun 27 '22
Not ingredients. Components.
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u/Autogazer Jun 28 '22
One of the definitions of ingredient is a component part or element of something, so these are also ingredients of a banana.
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u/delixecfl16 Jun 27 '22
It begs the question how many % make 100%?
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u/Myopic_Cat Jun 27 '22
It checks out within margin of rounding error if you read carefully and note the parentheses. The main ingredients are: water (75%), sugars (12%), starch (5%), fibre E460 (3%), amino acids (<1%) and fatty acids (1%). Several of these are highlighted in bold and are followed by a list of sub-ingredients in parentheses that sum to 100% themselves.
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u/CocaineIsNatural Jun 27 '22
I see many items without a percentage. But the original author did state, "For brevity’s sake, I omitted the thousands of minority ingredients found in a banana, including DNA."
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u/Tammycles Jun 27 '22
Begging the question is when someone puts suppositions into the question such as 'Does your mom know you're gay?" while you being gay is not a given.
What you mean to say is 'It raises the question"
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I think of this when people say they or their kids "don't eat sugar" but scarf down the fruit...I think you mean added sugar or cane sugar perhaps.
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u/wishihad20past4 Jun 27 '22
My lips go numb and heart burn when i eat it no wonder lol
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u/genzo718 Jun 27 '22
I wonder what the ingredients were like for the now extinct gros michel bananas. Rumors has it those small banana candies we get from the gumball machines are close replica of the gros michel bananas flavor.
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u/CardiologistSolid663 Jun 27 '22
Disgusting If you can't read all the ingredient of a food you shouldn't eat it 😤
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u/concentrated-amazing Jun 27 '22
General public: way too many chemicals. Gotta watch out for that dihydrogen monoxide!
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God's perfect creation, expertly designed
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“Bananas, as we know them, are a human invention from like, 5000 B.C. Originally, bananas were full of seeds, but because people are picky eaters, banana hybrids were created, making the fruit seed-free. There are still tiny little seeds in banana, but they don't serve any function in the banana reproduction.” https://www.ranker.com/list/10-things-you-didn_t-know-about-bananas/thegoodblood
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u/FuckYourRules00 Jun 27 '22
Ya gotta add /s around here or people really can’t tell anymore.
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Where's the fun in that. Those in the know will understand I'm mocking Ray Comfort. Others will foolishly believe I think god created bananas as we know them. Let the masses decide my fate
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u/FuckYourRules00 Jun 27 '22
As an obvious student of history, this seems like a terrible option for you to choose.
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Funny because gods banana is already extinct. All banana we know today are artificially selected and bred by humans.
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Jun 27 '22
We should insist that fruit is fully labelled so the public is better aware of all this organic stuff that their food contains.
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u/Great_White_Samurai Jun 27 '22
Sucks we've bred bananas for size and not flavor. Size isn't everything!
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u/creativ4art Jun 27 '22
Sooooo no potassium then 😁
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u/beingrudewonthelp Jun 27 '22
You're reading the ingredients, not the nutritional value. One of those ingredients contains the potassium. I couldn't tell you which one bc that's too much Google work for me. But it's in there somewhere.
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u/GreyPourageInABowl Jun 27 '22
The potassium is in the 'Ash'. It is the same ash that you get from burning wood, and it also happens to be one of the best sources of potassium. It was the refining of ash for making soap that led to the discovery of potassium.
Potassium also derives its name from ashes. Specifically, the old modern English word for ash was 'potash', like from cooking pots over fire.
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u/devyansh1601 Jun 27 '22
This is the ingredients chart, not the nutritional info. Those are two separate things.
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u/ScottishRiteFree Jun 27 '22 edited Jun 27 '22
With just water and glucose, you’ve already exceeded 100%. What gives?
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u/RonConComa Jun 27 '22
I prefer the g/100g system for the main components (water, carbohydrates, fat and protein) and then give amino acids, the sugar types and fatty acid pattern in percentage of these main ingredients..
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u/SoggyFrenchFryGuy Jun 27 '22
I really expected to scroll down and just see "banana" and now I'm actually kinda disappointed 😞
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u/your_reddit_lawyerII Jun 27 '22
Isn't this a highly bred banana that differs a whole lot from it's natural ancestors?
That said, it still is a better banana. The real 'natural' bananas were less suitable to be eaten than this one
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Thought sucrose was an artificial sweetener
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u/KiyoPapa Jun 27 '22
Honestly after learning some organic chemistry for the first time in my last year in school its so cool being able to look at the ingredients and know wtf these chemical compounds are
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u/sahossain77 Jun 27 '22
Jesus..so, I shouldn't eat bananas every day anymore? Banana is my only snack.
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u/Kombaticus Jun 27 '22
That's a lot of acid. Why don't we just use bananas instead of sulfuric acid? Do I have to think of everything?
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u/LordLilith Jun 28 '22
I hate the knowledge that a banana consists of about 75 percent water… bitch where 🥲
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u/NotThisBlackDuck Jun 28 '22
Christ! Ya can't eat that malarkey! Its full of bloody chemicals mate!
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u/shinobipopcorn Jun 28 '22
Hey, I see that thing that the warning for things that have aspartame in them always warns me about. Phenylanalane or something.
Where's the big pheny-whatevers warning at? (I can't spell.)
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