{"id":432,"date":"2009-03-19T21:21:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T05:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2009-03-19T21:21:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T05:21:55","slug":"soylent-green-is-l-cysteine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/soylent-green-is-l-cysteine\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; Soylent Green is L-Cysteine &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2009_03_19_a.jpg\" title=\"... L-Cysteine ..\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You learn something new every day.  <\/p>\n<p>For instance &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While looking over some ingredients on some won ton wrappers, Liz asked me to identify something called &#8220;L-Cysteine&#8221;.  Thanks god for the internets and this information highway!  It just saved me from a whole mess of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>L-Cysteine is an amino acid commonly used in food flavoring.  Companies such as McDonald&#8217;s and Burger King use it in their hamburger buns.  Most L-Cysteine comes from China. The most common industrial food grade sources for L-Cysteine are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>HUMAN HAIR AND DUCK FEATHERS!!!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>L-Cysteine literally comes from the floors of Chinese barbershops.  Some companies have publicly stated that their L-Cysteine is of the DUCK FEATHERS variety thereby avoiding any associations with such unsettling things like PEOPLE EATING PARTS OF OTHER PEOPLE IN THEIR DOUBLE McBACON!<\/p>\n<p>Yell it from the mountaintops!  Everyone must know!  This stuff is in all kinds of food products and dietary supplements.  Does this constitute a low level form of cannibalism?  <\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8230; the HUMANITY!!! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You learn something new every day. For instance &#8230; While looking over some ingredients on some won ton wrappers, Liz asked me to identify something called &#8220;L-Cysteine&#8221;. Thanks god for the internets and this information highway! It just saved me &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/soylent-green-is-l-cysteine\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230; Soylent Green is L-Cysteine &#8230;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288],"tags":[517,516],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddities","tag-l-cysteine","tag-soylent-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}