There’s Human Hair in Your Bread L-cysteine is an amino acid used to extend the shelf life of commercial bread products and is most commonly synthesized from human hair. But no one eats processed food with the illusion that they’re not eating something at least a bit gross.
An important food additive used in commercial bread production is often made from human hair, says television programme Keuringsdienst van Waarde, in an episode to be broadcast on Thursday evening.
L-cysteine L-cysteine is a softening agent often used in bread. It’s non-toxic, but it’s often made from hair. That’s right, human hair!
Bread manufacturers don’t throw a handful of human hair into the bread dough just for laughs — as far as we know, anyway. Instead, they knead in an amino acid called L-cysteine, which is used to lessen dough mixing times as it extends a bread’s shelf-life. Sounds great, you say.
But did you know that bone char (from cow bones) is still occasionally used to whiten some sugars or that some wines and many beers (particularly real ales) include isinglass – a substance obtained from the swim bladders of fish? Which brings me back to the possibility that human hair may be used in bread.
L-cysteine is derived from protein found in duck feathers, pig bristles, cow horns, and human hair. So no, we’re not technically eating whole strands of hair. But at the same time, we are still consuming hair/feather/horn/bristle byproducts. That doesn’t make us feel good, to be honest.
Bread does NOT jave hair in it unless the baker was directly shedding into the dough. The l-cystein was purified in a lab and used in bread. Your body is made of nutrients that originally came from decayed plant materials and rotten animals that went back to the soil.
Why is bread important to us?
Support Us. At its most basic form, bread is nourishing, sustaining and gives us energy. Bread is the basis of so many meals, the bricks that hold sandwich ingredients, spreads and veggies together. Eating bread is as basic to us as drinking water.
Here are a few items you’re eating that may contain human hair or duck feathers since l-cysteine is one of the ingredients. 1. Bread Loaves. Take a look at the ingredient list on bread packages when you’re at the grocery store.
Advertisement. L-Cysteine is one of those ingredients. Food manufacturers add this amino acid to bread because it helps speed up large-scale factory production.
Luckily, some restaurants, such as Einstein Bros. bagels, have transfered over to using a synthetic form of l-cysteine that is not made from human hair or duck feathers. It would be cool if the bagels contained all natural, plant-based ingredients instead, but hey, we’ll celebrate one small win at a time!
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