What’s the Fourth of July or a baseball game without a beer in one hand and a hot dog in the other? Sure, we all have that friend who absolutely refuses to indulge in this BBQ staple, weary of what ingredients really linger inside. Turns out, a recent study done by Clear Food might turn us all into that friend.
Clear Food analyzes foods at a molecular level, and their recent study on 345 hot dogs and sausages from 75 different brands is upsetting, to say the least.
The results found that 14.4 percent of the hot dogs they looked at contained either substitution or hygienic issues. They found unexpected (and unlisted) ingredients such as chicken, beef, turkey, and lamb in products that were not supposed to contain those ingredients. The most troubling might be that three percent of hot dogs contained pork despite no listing of that ingredient, as many people don’t eat pork for religious regions.
If you’re a vegetarian, you’ve been played. Ten percent of the vegetarian products contained meat.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
If you’ve made it this far, congratulations. But this might be where you want to click to something else, like this puppy.
Still with me? Okay…I just want to remind you that you’re here on your own free will.
Time for the hygienic issues.
Two percent of all hot dogs contained human DNA. IMO, two percent is about two percent too much. Commence vomit.
It’s hard to swallow (pun intended), but if you’re still all about those dogs, Clear Food reveals the brands that scored highest for quality were Butterball, McCormick, Eckrich, Hebrew National, and Simply Balanced.
Let’s all hope we forget this information by next summer.
Don't Read This Study If You Ever Plan On Eating A Hot Dog Again
