Blossom's Fake Video Exposed by food scientist | How To Cook That Ann Reardon

Welcome to How to Cook. I'm Ann Reardon and today, due to popular demand, I'm trying out the "Is Your Food Fake?" Quiz. Blossom

video

! Many of you sent me this

video

and said: we know it's probably not true but it's raising questions. First we have the cheese 🧀...they have chemical processed cheese that is difficult to melt and natural cheese melts. Now there are a couple of things to look at in this video... number one is the wording... 'processed' with chemicals versus 'natural' assuming they say natural is good and processed with chemicals is bad. It's very interesting to note that processing with chemicals is something that a lot of people say, "It has additives, it must be bad," and generally when it comes to chemicals they don't understand what they are or what they do.

So if I told you that most cakes you buy and eat have the additive sodium hydrogen carbonate added to them to make them a little better, then you might worry about that. But if I told you that baking soda was the name of baking powder then you would say, "Okay, I know what baking powder is, I know what it does, it makes the cake rise and without it it would be flat and not very pretty." ". So you are familiar with it, you understand it and you are not afraid of it. The same goes for most

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additives in

food

chemicals: they are added to foods in order to change something in their properties, to make them more tasty and enjoyable.

If you want to add an additive to a food that hasn't been used before, you simply can't do it until it's in the food laws and the food laws will test it and test it and find out the amount that they know is safe and then that amount is safe. . The amount is divided by hundreds or thousands and that is the amount you, as a manufacturer, can add to your food. So even if people bought a hundred different foods with the additive, they would still be below the safe intake of it. This is how additives tend to work...so not all additives are bad.

Baking powder is a chemical additive, not a bad thing. So don't hurt yourself with chemical additives. The other side of the coin is that "natural good" is a natural good? I mean rat poop is natural and we don't want it in our food. Uranium is natural and it will kill us! ☢️ The problem with 'natural' is that it hasn't really been defined by law what is natural and what is not when it comes to food labeling. It's a very hot debate about what is and isn't natural and it gets very complicated. I mean, the FDA in the US has asked for public comment on this, they've been debating this for years and they still haven't defined it, so that should let you know how complicated natural is.

So at the moment, if you see natural on a food label, it doesn't really mean anything! So turn it over, read the ingredients and decide for yourself. But let's try this test, get some cheese and a flame and see what happens. Okay, we'll start with the individual cheeses and you can see that these actually burn...don't do this at home because you could burn your fingers. You are very careful, but it actually burns when

exposed

to an open flame. Now if we try natural cheese in front of the fire, it melts and drips. So why is that?

Blossom has hinted in the video of him that he was burned due to additives in the chemicals in the individual cheeses. But if we turn the back of the package, which is what I encourage you to do, and read the nutritional information panel, you can see that this one, the individual one per 100 grams, has eighteen point nine grams of fat... remember that number eighteen point nine. While natural cheese has a total fat per 100 grams of thirty-three point three grams, so the amount of fat in one cheese is almost double that in the other and it is the amount of fat that allows it melt and allows the cheese to just flow over each other and just drip.

So the video should really look like this low-fat cheese burning under an open flame. High-fat cheese melts and drips under an open flame, but that's not really a sensational, shareable video, so it's not what they went for. They showed you an experiment and then drew the wrong conclusion. If I told you, the more firefighters attending a fire, the more damage there will be, therefore, firefighters will do damage! Now you can see what I did there. I took a real fact: the more firefighters there are at a fire, the higher the damage bill. And then it led you to the wrong conclusion and you knew it was the wrong conclusion, you knew that's not the reason, that's exactly what they did with the cheese.

They have taken a true fact, one burns, one melts and then led you to the wrong conclusion. Rice mixed with pieces of plastic to increase profits for manufacturers. Surely the pieces of plastic would cost more than the rice itself... rice is pretty cheap! This was refuted time and time again. The reason why so many tests were done was because it continued to gain traction on social media and go viral in different countries. There are articles about it saying this is a hoax, this isn't real, this isn't a health issue, people don't need to be scared about this, but thanks to Blossom for bringing it up again to make the rounds again.

Baby foods are ground rocks that are advertised as calcium fortified. What do you think? Do you think this is true or false? There are some truths here, so which one do you think is true and how do you tell it? Well, let's get some baby food and put it in a bag, spread it out and let me get a very strong magnet. This one can lift the entire jar, so it's pretty strong. I'm going to pass it through the mush and absolutely nothing as expected. If I give you some calcium lactate, you can see here that calcium is simply not magnetic, it is a mineral but it is not magnetic and it is usually white, not black, which makes the whole video a little complicated from the beginning .

So what did Blossom add to his baby's food to make this video? He was just trying to think of something that was easy to get that he could use for this. So I got a magnet and I broke it with a hammer into little pieces and now I'm going to drop it in my baby's food and mix it very, very well and now I just used my magnet to get all those little pieces out. all the way down so you can't see them. Now, in front of the camera, I can pass my magnet over and you'll see that it attracts the black bits to the corner and the magnet attracts those little bits of magnet that I added that weren't in the baby food. to the corner.

This is just the definition of scaremongering! This will make parents worry about whether they can use baby food from the store and again let me assure you that the standard food codes are very strict regarding baby food and what can be added. You can turn it over if you're worried and check the ingredients; It will tell you exactly what is in that food. Next we arrange the vitamins on a tray in the oven. Synthetic supplements burn and natural supplements do not. Now they don't tell us what temperature their oven is, they don't tell us how long they are in the oven, so I'll pick some tablets at random (the tablets are very expensive) and then we'll throw them away. in the oven and film them, which is really what you wanted because it's a good film of tablets doing weird things in the oven. 🤢 my kitchen stinks and I'm sure these fumes are not good for me.

The first one that hasn't burned at all but must surely contain some food coloring to get that red color is an iron tablet, then we have a vitamin B tablet and then a probiotic that has turned brown inside...then a mega magnesium complex on top of that, awesome is an antibiotic, not a vitamin, I know, but it's fun to bake. Next to that is esmaprezarol, which is also not a vitamin, but I'm just showing you something that is completely synthetically made and not burned in the oven... next to that is nurofen again, which is not a vitamin, but it didn't burn at all. then we have fish oil that was heated and melted its gelatin capsule and leaked everywhere and then this burned to pieces in little patches;

It's actually a mix of calcium, magnesium, and vitamin d3, so one of those gets burned and the others don't. and then we have a completely burnt and crunchy vitamin C tablet. now the reason it burned is because it has sugar which some might argue is natural and of course sugar was added because it's a chewable tablet and no added sugar would be disgusting and then this tablet which when it's so big as a

cook

ie but didn't actually burn is an effervescent vitamin B complex. So according to Blossom's very unscientific test, these tablets are completely natural and these two are the only synthetic ones of the bunch.

So as you can see, throwing something in the oven and seeing what burns over what doesn't is absolute nonsense when it comes to testing what is synthetic and what isn't. Okay, next we have some meat "this is not fat, it's actually glue used to bind unused meat scraps together." Now this one is based on a bit of truth in a confusing way, so let me explain. So meat glue or transglutaminase is an enzyme and what it does when you put two proteins or two pieces of meat together helps them stick together or stick... it's used a lot in things like chicken nuggets, things that are shaped or shape. in particular molds.

It is also sometimes used in things like sausages and those sliced ​​meats like polony or Devon will have it too. However, what they have imagined here is completely different: they have imagined it used for steaks and that sort of thing. So can it be used for that? Is it for that? That is the question we are analyzing here. If we take small pieces of meat and stick them back together, we will have bacteria not only on the outside but also on the inside, so the meat cannot be served raw, it would have to be well

cook

ed or not. be safe foods from a bacterial point of view.

For that reason, we have food laws here in Australia, the US and the UK that say if you want to sell steak or anything that's being cooked again, you have to label it as "formed meat" or "reformed meat"... you can do that. . It's not enough to sell it and say it's a steak if it's not a steak. That's the law. So check your label if it says reformed, has meat glue or if it says transglutaminase or TG in the ingredients then it has meat glue. Personally, I couldn't find steaks or roasts or anything that used meat glue because most butchers are very proud of the fact that they are good butchers and can cut all the steaks perfectly and don't need to reform anything.

If they have small leftovers, they tend to serve them chopped like stir-fry meat or diced, so you know it's just diced meat or they can put it in sausages or something else; There are many different ways to serve meat. ..burgers, chop them, there's really no reason to put them back together. But of course, because of videos like this, some people are very worried that their meat is stuck together. I've seen videos where people look at the meat and look, it has different sections, you know, so it must have been glued together, but you have to remember that this meat comes from an animal and animals have many different muscles, all held together with connectives. tissue, so if you look at this piece of meat that doesn't have meat glue on it, you can see that there are several sections as they are kind of held together by fat and then here, if we pull it apart, you can see the connective tissue in the middle. and it's a very thin layer and it's quite strong.

This is not meat glue, if you see this on meat it is connective tissue. Just for comparison, so you can see the difference between meat glue and connective tissue. I actually went out and bought some meat glue so we can attach some meat or reformed meat so we can see the difference. So what I'm going to do is take some pieces of lamb and place them on top of the plastic wrap and a strip of fat on one end and then just sprinkle them with a thin, even layer of meat glue. Stack those pieces on top of each other.

I should probably add a little more on the edge, but it doesn't matter... add the fat on top and then wrap it tightly in plastic and refrigerate it for four hours or more. Now, while we're experimenting, let's do some weird things, let's put together some pork, chicken, lamb, some fat and some lamb, we'll sprinkle them well with the transglutaminase and then we'll stack them. Let's start with the chicken on top, then the pork, a little more lamb and then the lamb fat and wrap it well... as tightly as you can so that there is no air space between the meat and four hours later.

Our lamb now looks like a piece of meat and when I cut it it looks pretty good too. Now let's try to cut the Frankensteak! Look at those layers of different flesh, that's completely strange. Now, if we pull this, it separates quite easily at the joint and you can see that it has a pretty grainy or granular look where the meat glue was. You definitely can't tell the difference in the connective tissue, so what's wrongWhen it's cooked, what did you have in your video? Let's fry up one of these Frankensteaks. He held together very well when cooked, let's look at that.

Oh that's wrong, let me know in the comments if you think it's right or wrong, OMG! it's harder to tell once it's cooked. I mean, aside from the fact that we have different meats here, the meat glue itself is practically invisible. So if you find white bits in your meat like the ones shown in your video, chances are it's actually fat or connective tissue and not meat glue, the meat glue spreads there in a very thin layer and once cooked it pretty much invisible. Next we have ice cream, we add a splash of lemon juice, if it bubbles it contains 'powdered detergent to give shine and lightness'.

This rumor seems to come from a gossip website in India back in 2012 and when I checked the Food Authority of India website to see if there were any records of ice cream being adulterated with washing powder, there was no record there. in India and certainly not in the rest of the world. Now if you think about this, if you take some washing powder and add an acid like lemon juice to it, it will actually bubble. The difficulty, however, is that if you add washing powder to ice cream, the detergent itself tastes so horrible that it will make the ice cream quite inedible.

So you're not going to sell, I scream, if you do it anyway, it's kind of a self-regulation problem, but if you want to create a viral video or impress your friends by telling them you found washing powder in your ice cream. you simply take a photo of yourself placing a lemon over your bowl of ice cream, squeezing it, then you zoom in on a closer shot and add some lemonade that actually fizzes when you add it over the ice cream 🤫 of course you could just add the washing powder at the bottom of the bowl, but then your ice cream wouldn't be edible and where's the fun if you can't eat the ice cream afterwards?

The next one, very good,

fake

salt, contains chalk that clouds the water. Okay, let's put some salt in water and as you can see, it's a little cloudy now if you turn it over and check the ingredients, which is what I keep telling you to do: salt has a small amount of anti-caking agent in it. he. This is because if the salt is finely ground, it tends to clump together and when you turn the salt over you won't get anything out because it will be stuck together. So this is not

fake

salt, it's 97% salt and then 3% anti-caking agent, which allows the salt to flow together and into the glass and that's that small amount of cloudiness that you're seeing.

If you don't want an anti-caking agent you can get the salt that you grind and then it's just 100% salt and you can just grind it in there, you can see it's not cloudy at all so what you're looking at is the anti-caking agent it's not fake salt! So if you look at it, it's based on one truth...if you have an additive, it will make the water cloudy, if you don't have the anti-caking agent, then the water will be clear. So, it's based on a truth, but then they took it to the wrong conclusion and greatly exaggerated it by saying that salt is "fake." That is not true.

So you can see how by mixing a little bit of truth with a little bit of liars you can make a viral video because people are really true and they get confused. This next one is really strange: they claim that coffee with additives floats and pure coffee sinks... now every reference I could find to this test is reversed, so in this case they are completely wrong. Coffee with additives like chicory root or burnt sugar that is sometimes added to make it bitter sinks, the additives will sink while the coffee will float, so the coffee that floated must be pure and good and the coffee that sinks It must be bad.

However, the problem with this test is that sometimes pure ground coffee beans without anything added can also sink, so if I grind the coffee beans I have here and put them on the coarse grind setting and then put them on the water floats. Now, if I grind more coffee beans exactly the same and put them on super fine mode, it tends to float for a moment and then starts to sink... the finer the coffee is ground, the faster it will start to sink. the thicker it is, the more it will float. Nothing to do with the same good, bad coffee beans.

Other things that can affect it are things like the temperature of the water, the hotter the coffee beans are or the hotter the water is, it will sink faster than if it were cold coffee beans in cold water. An easy way to make it sink is a slight stir, just a little movement, and that will make the coffee sink regardless of all other factors. There are other things that can affect it too, like hardness, whether water can affect whether the coffee sinks or floats to the top, also things like the condition of the beans, how long it's been since they were roasted, if they're stale. , for some people.

I will say they will sink, but then there are other people who have done experiments with two different types of beans and roasted them on the same day, same type of water, same level of grind on the thing...one sinks and the other fleet. So, that must be a difference in the bean itself. There are so many factors that complicate this, that it is not a reliable test of good coffee. The best thing you can do is check your number one ingredients to see if they are one hundred percent pure. 2. See if you like the taste.

We're into the spices...hold it over a candle, pure spices will burn or ignite and impure spices won't. Don't you think it's a little strange how they are trying to burn every here and the entire first part of this video if it burned it means it was bad... remember the cheese if it burned it was bad if the the vitamins in the oven burned they were synthetics but now with the spices if they burn it is good and if they don't burn it is bad. Surely this contradicts itself enough to let you know that the entire video is bad.

He's not giving you good information, but let's have some more fun and see if we can light some turmeric on fire on a candle. Now I've been holding this over the flame for a good four minutes and it's not even close to lighting. I can make it smoke if I bring the candle to the edge, but that's it, there's no way for it to light. the only way i can get it to have a flame is to just light it a little with a blowtorch and even then it goes out almost immediately 🔥 let me see theirs again... look here over the candle, nothing happening so they move it away from the flame and from the heat and magically it lights up... it's like there was a blowtorch off camera that you couldn't see 🤫the company that made this video and owner of the Blossom channel is First Media which surprisingly also owns So Yummy, who are the ones who, if you've seen my previous video about their videos, post fake recipes that don't work, can't work... just scientifically impossible, but because shared because people say wow, ice cream frosting made with ice cream whipped with powdered sugar which looks delicious but is physically impossible.

I had a lot of comments on that previous video from kids who had spent their pocket money buying ingredients to cook one of the So Yummy recipes and then failed again and again and thought they couldn't cook and had stopped baking. . And after we filmed that video, one of So Yummy's former video producers, who used to work for them, contacted me and I spoke to him on the phone and he said "whether the recipes worked or not, it was never his concern ". ...it was always about pace and timing to make it a viral, shareable, viewable video...that was the concern.

They would re-shoot it to make it perfect, but whether the recipe worked or not, who cares! 😡 Now this isn't just limited to a problem with First Media, it's a problem across the entire social media platform and the reason it's a problem is because the algorithm promotes this type of thing. I think unless the algorithm itself changes, unless the platforms Facebook and YouTube take responsibility for what they are promoting, there will be more of this because it works... it would have made them a lot of money because they have so many views. That tells other companies that we should try to cheat and do fake things because that will work and get us views.

Whereas before, if a newspaper did that, then they wouldn't get views, they would get embarrassed and they would go out of business and less people would buy their stuff because it's not true, whereas in this case YouTube and Facebook keep promoting, keep promoting, keep promoting these same channels these same producers even if you go but they are deceiving the public!! I don't know what you think. What do you think is the solution? Actually, I don't know what the solution is. If you try to solve the problem, viral videos on social media are not true. I'll leave that in your hands.

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