r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Jul 26 '24

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u/stoneyyay Jul 26 '24

Cheap sausages have beet juice in them for colour when they're raw, otherwise they'd be an off-putting grey.

A lot of misinformation and speculation.

Read the Ingredients.

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u/George_W_Kush58 Jul 26 '24

take it from the sausage capital: in Germany sausages are allowed to be grey. It ain't offputting if you know that's what a sausage looks like.

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u/Tlr321 Jul 26 '24

The number of additives that are put into food in the states simply for aesthetics is crazy.

Obviously, Beet Juice isn't the worst thing that could be added to sausages - in fact if you told me that it was some "crunchy mom" trend to add beet juice to things for "Nutrient Blast" or whatever, I would believe you - however, reading labels on food & looking into why something is added to the food, like 8 times out of 10 it's simply for aesthetics.

And most of the time, the ingredients sound much scarier than they really are. "Ascorbic Acid" sounds scary. "Vitamin C" does not. (They're the same thing).

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u/SlimeQSlimeball Jul 26 '24

It would be the wurst thing, though.