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> "sheep hair" That's a new one to me, which foods have wool in them?

• ksaj 7y ago
  Look for the word lanolin in your ingredient lists. It's basically boiled down sheep hair. It's a source of vitamin D, but mainly it's used to make things really crispy (when fried) or shiny and slippery (when straight up). You get vitamin D from a whole lot of other things you eat (it's not rare), and it takes some laboratory wizardry to derive the vitamin D3 from it (versus simply eating normal food to get it...) so nobody is adding lanolin to your food for it's wholesome goodness. It's literally only there for the texture. That's why its in your shampoo, chewing gum, leather polish and french fries, amongst a whole lot of other foods you eat.
  • catalogia 7y ago
    Seems a tad misleading to call that hair; lanolin isn't keratin.
    • Nasrudith 7y ago
      Yeah and lanolin would have been of use for cooking for millennia even if it wasn't appetizing just from sheer calories and survival. That fits the pattern of PETA style vegan fanatic "too important for the truth" propaganda. Like claims that sheep are skinned for their wool.
      • namibj 7y ago
        Can you link a source for "Like claims that sheep are skinned for their wool."?
  • mizzack 7y ago
    > nobody is adding lanolin to your food for it's wholesome goodness. Most people are D deficient and D3 is fat soluble. That is literally why it's added to milk.