"I scream, you scream, we all scream for propylene glycol, ethyl acetate, and yellow dye #5?"

Sadly, it seems the recipe for ice cream has changed over the years. You think you’re only eating cream, sugar, and vanilla. When in reality, you’re actually putting a lot of very strange things into your body. Over 200 chemical flavorings and colors, plus everything from hydrogen-ated oils, high fructose corn syrup, and dry milk solids are used to produce something still allowed to be called ice cream. Even commercial alternative ice creams de-rived from soymilk and almond milk contain canola oil and safflower oil to improve the texture. I CAN’T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I CRAVED OIL ON A SPOON!

Researchers say much of what we consume in today’s lifestyle can be questioned if it’s even food. In today’s fast world, it is not uncommon that we find a long list of ingredients full of unpronounceable words: Propylene, glycerin, sodium carboxyl methylcellulose, monoglycer-ides, diglycerides, disodium phosphates, tetra sodium pyrophosphate, polysorbate 80, and dioctyl sodium sul-fosuccinate.

After reading such ingredients we are left questioning which fruit, vegetable, or animal it may have come from. Many of these ingredients can have detrimental long-term effects such as GI disease, diabetes and obesity. Unfortunately, these are just the ingredients we are allowed to see. ALLOWED TO SEE? WHAT?

Yes, as it turns out, ice cream manufacturers are not required to list all the ingredients they put in their ice creams. These include,

• Diethylglycol - a chemical used instead of egg yolks. It’s also used in antifreeze and paint removers.
• Piperonal - used in place of vanilla. It’s used to kill lice.
• Aldehydec-17 - a cherry flavoring. It’s inflammable and also used in aniline dye (aniline: a colorless, oily, poisonous benzene derivative, used in the manufac-ture of rubber, dyes, resins, pharmaceuticals, and varnishes), plastic and rubber.
• Ethyl Acetate - a pineapple flavor. It’s used as a clean-er for leather and textiles.
• Butyraldehyde - a nut flavoring. It’s one of the ingre-dients in rubber cement.
• Amylacetate - a banana flavoring. It’s also used as an oil paint solvent.
• Benzyl Acetate - a strawberry flavor. It’s a nitrate solvent.

Atomic #7 has spent years researching the right products and brand of ingredients to ensure we bring you exactly what you ordered. We have taken great care, research, and thought in choosing the right manufacturers of each ingredient.

At Atomic #7, we believe that pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizer, and paint solvent have no place in food!

In order to copy the flavor of a strawberry, fast food corporations include 50 distinct chemicals like ethyl acetate and phenythyl. So, the next time you get a craving for a strawberry milkshake make sure to give your compliments to the chemist not the chef. At Atomic #7, the ingredients are… Strawberries, my compliments to the chef