From Fooducate, a blog dedicated to “providing practical advice for buying healthy food at the supermarket,” we have this marvelous visual aid: A Visual of Twinkie's 37 Ingredients. Fooducate also provides a handy list of the 37 ingredients (see below), with the suggestion that, by way of a fast food parlor game, you “try to match the ingredient list to the individual images!” Brilliant. Kind of like 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, or 6 Characters in Search of An Author, but with junk food science. Okay, we're over-reaching terribly, but it is funny, if somewhat disturbing. And thanks to @SlowFoodUSA for the link to the post. Fitting, really.

Your food chemistry guessing game. (Hint: start with the last one.)

Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour [Flour, Reduced Iron, B Vitamins (Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate (B1), Riboflavin (B2), Folic Acid)], Corn Syrup, Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Water, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable and/or Animal Shortening (Soybean, Cottonseed and/or Canola Oil, Beef Fat), Whole Eggs, Dextrose. Contains 2% or Less of: Modified Corn Starch, Glucose, Leavenings (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Baking Soda, Monocalcium Phosphate), Sweet Dairy Whey, Soy Protein Isolate, Calcium and Sodium Caseinate, Salt, Mono and Diglycerides, Polysorbate 60, Soy Lecithin, Soy Flour, Cornstarch, Cellulose Gum, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Sorbic Acid (to Retain Freshness), Yellow 5, Red 40.

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