Posted on 11/03/2014 5:16:47 AM PST by John David Powell
MSM actually felt they had to tell their viewers that the blueberries in off-the-shelf muffin mixes aren’t real?
“How would one go about producing an artificial blueberry bit?”
High fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, artificial color, artificial flavor.
I thought the exact same thing. duh!
I live in South Jersey and we do have wild blueberries (actually huckleberries ) that grow on bushes that reach up to 6 and 7 feet high. That could be what you have in your yard, but I wouldn’t take a chance.
Probably cellulose, coloring, and flavoring. Mmmm...everything a growing body needs.
agreed... eat real food!
Dried apple bits colored to be purplish/blue and saturated with high fructose corn syrup.
Thanks so much for the link - I think I found them - they are a mulberry because the picture in your link looks exactly like what I have. Now I’ll have to check out mulberry recipes, lol.
Sodium aluminum phosphate with some high glucose corn syrup and a sprinkle of msg makes for some mighty fine dining.
There are some plants that make blue or blue-black berries that are toxic to people, but birds eat them without ill effects.
On the other hand, some blueberry bushes can get really big. Mulberries get really big, too...though as others have noted, mulberries look like blackberries.
The best thing to do is call your local agricultural extension and ask if they can help you identify your plant.
Betty Crocker’s muffin is nasty!
I double-checked so I couldn’t be mistaken, and Wikipedia confirms certain species of blueberry shrubs grow up to 13 feet tall. And some images of them show pruned trunks growing very straight and tall. Doesn’t hurt to play it cautious and just eat one.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Rochester and Yale, along with other well-known universities, produced a compendium of Roman diet, and learned that, from approx. 100BC through the end of Hadrian's rule, the amount of salt in recipes almost tripled (x 2.78 was the figure, iirc). Not being able to taste salt "normally" is one of the infamous symptoms of lead poisoning.
A couple of later emperors made (apparently a half-hearted) attempt to encourage cooking with terra cotta and other materials and to discourage cooking with the traditional lead-based olla. Not much success there, so no 'hard' data. Too bad, would've been quite useful to this discussion.
Doubtless, there has been more research along these lines; I'm just not aware of it. The case for lead poisoning being one of the causes of decline, though, is pretty well unanswerable.
FReegards!
All I can say is that the empire fell, and they also used lead too much. I'm not aware of significant evidence of brain damage at the time. It's mere conjecture/correlation.
Pick a few and take them to your local agricultural extension service (located in most county seats). They will be able to identify them for you.
Quaker strawberries and cream flavored products contain neither strawberries nor cream. Frankly, we’ve been much healthier since adopting a clean food diet. We eat like our grandparents ate: whole milk, lard, real butter, home popped pop corn, etc. No HFCS, MSG, partially hydrogenated oils, etc. We cook from scratch, and our three kids (6 and under) love it.
I see what you did there ;)
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