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Home --> Business --> Secret Ingredients

Secret Ingredients

Many a story is told about little-known ingredients supposedly found in common products — sometimes by design, and sometimes otherwise.

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        Green bullet = true
        Red bullet = false
        Multiple status bullet = multiple truth values
        Yellow bullet = undetermined
        White bullet = unclassifiable veracity

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  Red bullet Carmex lip balm contains ground glass to make users dependent upon it.

  Red bullet Tropical Fantasy drink is laced with a substance that renders black men sterile.*

  Red bullet Workers at Corona beer urinate into the vats.*

  Red bullet Dr Pepper soda is made with prune juice.

  Red bullet A 1993 instance of product tampering resulted in syringes being found in cans of Pepsi.*

  Red bullet A false rumor about a leper working in its factory severely damaged sales of Chesterfield's cigarettes.*

  Red bullet Jägermeister contains deer or elk blood.

  Red bullet Lucky Strike cigarettes are so named because some packs contained marijuana cigarettes.

  Red bullet Mascara contains bat poop.

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