If you have a sweet tooth and a sensitive stomach you might wanna turn away and stop reading this...
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Turns out that secretions from beaver anal glands is used to flavour a whole heap of foods, giving it a false vanilla-y raspberry taste.
Castoreum, the FDA approved food additive is one of the most common "natural ingredients" in sweet treats, and due to its scienctific sounding name, who'd suspect a thing??
According to befoodsmart.com, beaver's gland secretions can be found in alcoholic beverages, baked goods, frozen dairy products, chewing gum, sweets, meat products, pudding, gelatin, ice cream, vanilla flavouring and raspberry-flavoured food.
Vom.
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