Vani Hari
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Oh, it's fantastic. Are you kidding me? And they've engineered it that way. The second ingredient in a Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich is monosodium glutamate. Monosodium glutamate, MSG, is added to Chick-fil-A so that you remember the flavor, your mouth starts watering, you want to have that sandwich, you love it, right?
And MSG is one of those additives that when they're studying obesity-related diseases, they give to rats to make them fat. So that they eat more than they should and they crave the flavor and they keep eating and eating and eating. And so for me, when I found out that was the second ingredient at Chick-fil-A, I lost my, you know, I was mad. I was really mad.
And MSG is one of those additives that when they're studying obesity-related diseases, they give to rats to make them fat. So that they eat more than they should and they crave the flavor and they keep eating and eating and eating. And so for me, when I found out that was the second ingredient at Chick-fil-A, I lost my, you know, I was mad. I was really mad.
And MSG is one of those additives that when they're studying obesity-related diseases, they give to rats to make them fat. So that they eat more than they should and they crave the flavor and they keep eating and eating and eating. And so for me, when I found out that was the second ingredient at Chick-fil-A, I lost my, you know, I was mad. I was really mad.
And I was so mad that I wrote an article called Chemical Filet or Chick-fil-A because it had close to 100 ingredients. I mean, that's just one of the problematic ingredients in Chick-fil-A, but several others. And it went so viral that the company reached out to me and invited me to their headquarters. And when they invited me to their headquarters, I had to take off from my regular day job.
And I was so mad that I wrote an article called Chemical Filet or Chick-fil-A because it had close to 100 ingredients. I mean, that's just one of the problematic ingredients in Chick-fil-A, but several others. And it went so viral that the company reached out to me and invited me to their headquarters. And when they invited me to their headquarters, I had to take off from my regular day job.
And I was so mad that I wrote an article called Chemical Filet or Chick-fil-A because it had close to 100 ingredients. I mean, that's just one of the problematic ingredients in Chick-fil-A, but several others. And it went so viral that the company reached out to me and invited me to their headquarters. And when they invited me to their headquarters, I had to take off from my regular day job.
When I initially was starting my blog, Food Babe, I was doing it just for my own passion. So it wasn't to make money or do anything like that. I was a banker. I was a consultant. That was my day job. And this is what I was passionate about and what I would write about in the evening and on the weekends.
When I initially was starting my blog, Food Babe, I was doing it just for my own passion. So it wasn't to make money or do anything like that. I was a banker. I was a consultant. That was my day job. And this is what I was passionate about and what I would write about in the evening and on the weekends.
When I initially was starting my blog, Food Babe, I was doing it just for my own passion. So it wasn't to make money or do anything like that. I was a banker. I was a consultant. That was my day job. And this is what I was passionate about and what I would write about in the evening and on the weekends.
And so when my article went viral and they invited me to headquarters to consult and I had to take off work, it was that moment that I was like, wait a minute, I'm consulting all these big financial institutions. This doesn't really mean much to me. But consulting with Chick-fil-A and changing their ingredients, that's real change. And like, wow, I could really change the food industry.
And so when my article went viral and they invited me to headquarters to consult and I had to take off work, it was that moment that I was like, wait a minute, I'm consulting all these big financial institutions. This doesn't really mean much to me. But consulting with Chick-fil-A and changing their ingredients, that's real change. And like, wow, I could really change the food industry.
And so when my article went viral and they invited me to headquarters to consult and I had to take off work, it was that moment that I was like, wait a minute, I'm consulting all these big financial institutions. This doesn't really mean much to me. But consulting with Chick-fil-A and changing their ingredients, that's real change. And like, wow, I could really change the food industry.
And that's when after that meeting and the subsequent changes that Chick-fil-A made as a result of that meeting convinced me that I should quit my job to do this full time.
And that's when after that meeting and the subsequent changes that Chick-fil-A made as a result of that meeting convinced me that I should quit my job to do this full time.
And that's when after that meeting and the subsequent changes that Chick-fil-A made as a result of that meeting convinced me that I should quit my job to do this full time.
So yeah, let's just talk about McDonald's. You've got McDonald's in the UK, three ingredients, and then salt is optional. Very simple. Here in the United States, it's over 14. And you've got the chemical called dimethylpolysiloxane. It's an ingredient that can be preserved with formaldehyde, according to the FDA, although there's no safety data on this chemical.
So yeah, let's just talk about McDonald's. You've got McDonald's in the UK, three ingredients, and then salt is optional. Very simple. Here in the United States, it's over 14. And you've got the chemical called dimethylpolysiloxane. It's an ingredient that can be preserved with formaldehyde, according to the FDA, although there's no safety data on this chemical.
So yeah, let's just talk about McDonald's. You've got McDonald's in the UK, three ingredients, and then salt is optional. Very simple. Here in the United States, it's over 14. And you've got the chemical called dimethylpolysiloxane. It's an ingredient that can be preserved with formaldehyde, according to the FDA, although there's no safety data on this chemical.
It's the main ingredient in Silly Putty. And when... When it's combined with TBHQ, which is another crazy chemical that's a preservative that you'll find in Reese's peanut butter cups here in the United States, but not in Japan. This TBHQ ingredient turns on your immune response. So you become more allergenic to your surroundings and in your environment.