Jello

I have been going through my cupboards and pulling things out for the food pantry that I know I will no longer be eating. For example: Processed, chemical loaded boxed meals. I'm starting to read labels and realizing although something may seem fine you sometimes need to dig deeper.

I just learned some really yucky stuff about jello. The box ingredients are : sugar, gelatin, adipic acid (for tartness), less than 2% of artificial flavor, disodium phosphate and sodium citrate (to control acidity), fumaric acid (for tartness), and the colorant red 40. First off the products are listed in order of the amount in the product - so if sugar is the top one it's loaded with it! The second product is gelatin. Well that sounded normal to me; then I looked up what gelatin is online.
Gelatin is basically processed collagen. Collagen is a structural protein in animals connective tissue, skin, and bones. According to the Gelatin Manufacturers Institute of America (GMIA), pork skin, cattle bones, and cattle hide are the predominant raw materials used to make gelatin. The raw materials are washed & soaked in acid. Ok - yuck! Honestly that's really gross. I do not want to eat sugar coated animal skin & bones.

I'm saying goodbye to Jello - which has absolutely no nutritional value anyhow. By the way - I hope the vegetarians out there realize what's in jello. Ugh!