People Swear They’ll Never Eat These 7 Foods Again After Finding Out What Stomach-Cramping Ingredients They’re Made With

Whether it’s a quick snack or a packed lunch for the kids, we don’t always give a second thought to what we’re eating.

But what if you could learn or even see how some of your favorite dishes are made?

According to Los Angeles blogging Rankerprocessed foods like puffs, sausages, and even fancy foods like caviar are just a few foods that look less than tasty when made.

Hot dogs are made from leftover “leftovers” that have all been mashed in a “pink tube,” while caviar is basically fish eggs extracted from the guts of fish.

Here are eight processed foods you’ll never want to see made again…

red velvet

Red velvet cake is a mouth-watering favorite and a treat for both the eyes and the taste buds.

The delicious baked treat is traditionally a red-colored layer cake, smothered with delicious frosted or cream cheese icing.

While the color was originally derived from a type of cocoa powder, some newer recipes use a red dye made from crushed cochineal insects.

The crushed bodies of the Central and South American insect produce a red-colored acid to ward off predators, which in turn is used to dye your favorite dessert.

Don’t worry, not all bakers use this recipe, but it’s certainly enough to give you some food for thought.

Cheese chips

Far from just a toddler’s lunch box, cheese puffs are enjoyed by almost all age groups.

The melt-in-your-mouth snack achieves its beautiful golden color and flavor in part thanks to cheese powder.

Huffington Post reveals that the powder is made through a unique process called spray drying.

Pure cheese is melted into a liquid form, combined with other minute ingredients and then sprayed through a nozzle.

The resulting substance is converted into droplets which are then blown up with hot air and evaporated. Voila! A powder is formed.

Hmmm delicious! Or maybe not so much.

hotdogs

The nature of how this meaty treat is made won’t surprise you too much, especially after this video of how hot dog sausages are made recently resurfaced.

Foodies were disgusted to discover that hot dog sausages are made from leftover pork, beef and chicken cuts.

The snack, which probably originated in Germany, goes through a grinding process, in which the meat is pushed through a metal plate with holes.

Then chicken trimmings are added to the minced meat before mixing in the starch, salt and other flavourings.

Another machine then shreds the meat batter into a fine emulsion and sucks any air out of the mixture.

To pour the processed meat into the classic hot dog shape, cellulose tubing is loaded into the filling machine, which pumps the meat puree into a long pinkish-colored casing.

A knife cuts each casing in a machine to separate the long tube of hot dogs.

Caviar

The luxurious, budget-busting delicacy undergoes a painstaking process to become the salty garnish.

Caviar consists mainly of sturgeon eggs grown in large tanks with filtered water.

Commercial caviar production involves the mind-boggling step of gutting a fish’s belly like a caesarean section of sorts to extract its eggs.

The egg sac is then rolled over a wire rack to separate the eggs from the sac before being seasoned with salt.

Other methods include a process called “stripping,” in which the caviar is extracted through a small incision along the urogenital muscle. An ultrasound is used to determine the correct timing.

Cocktail cherries

Cocktail cherries, or maraschino cherries, are a preserved, sweetened version of the fruit, usually used in desserts and cocktails.

It’s no surprise that the once natural fruit has been worked on to take on its new glossy, commercial form.

According to Healthlinethe luscious-looking treat is loaded with added sugars and contains a whopping two grams of sugar, compared to one gram of natural sugars in a regular cherry.

They are also sold soaked in high fructose corn syrup — a sweetener made from corn syrup composed of fructose and glucose, which is normally found in candy.

High fructose corn syrup has been linked to conditions such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Sweets

The rainbow candy is a sight to behold and the mere mention of it can cheer up even the most stern of people.

However, the news of how they’re made isn’t so sweet.

And even though their main ingredient is sugar, did you know that jelly beans are made from small amounts of insect secretions that are considered safe for consumption?

They’re coated in shellac, that same substance you ask for when you walk into a nail salon.

Shellac is a sticky substance derived from secretions of the female Kerria lacca, an insect native to Thailand.

Milk pots

Milk pots or ultra-heated (UHT) creamers are super handy when you’re on the go. And for the lactose intolerant, the good news is that most creamers are non-dairy.

However, you may feel very nauseous when you learn that these packs contain everything except milk.

Huffington Post UKpreviously revealed that milk pots consist of a long list of ingredients such as sugar, oil, and thickeners.

Other ingredients in your coffee’s milky sidekick include corn syrup solids, partially hydrogenated soybeans, and cottonseed oil.

You don’t need coffee for this wake-up call.