Do you ever think about what goes into that Twinkie, before you stuff it into your mouth with pleasure? Do you realize that the fluffy cake filled with happiness is made from chemicals that you can hardly pronounce? I’m here to inform you all about this curious item: the Twinkie.

It tastes pretty good, in all it’s delicious yellow sponge cake glory. Mmm… yummy! Can you taste the thirty-nine ingredients used to make it? A few of these ingredients are yellow number five food dye, calcium sulfate, polysorbate 60, cellulose gum, and phosphates. These materials have also been used in sheet rock, shampoo, and rocket fuel. Another thing that is used to make a Twinkie is sorbic acid, which comes from natural gas. That’s not to mention high fructose corn syrup, which can cause many health problems such as diabetes and high cholesterol.

My friend Lucy tried freezing a Twinkie. It has now been in her freezer for more than a year. I’ve seen it, and it is a little disturbing how it hasn’t even frozen yet. There are so many preservatives in Twinkies that it is hardly even a food. If you want to learn more about this interesting product, you can read “Twinkie,

Deconstructed: My Journey To Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats” by Steve Ettlinger.