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☆ Why Melted Bugs on Candy and Lemons Are Behind a $167 Million Industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Benjamin Nigh | Dorian Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ How the Netherlands Makes 650 Million Kilos of Gouda a Year
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Dorian Barranco | Robin Lindsay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

☆ How chefs feed 100,000 Michigan fans at America's biggest football stadium
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Korey Isbell | Dorian Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Is your food safe to eat? Why your wasabi, vanilla, and honey could be fake
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Robin Lindsay | Dorian Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Hate to break it to you, but your truffle oil wasn't made from truffles. Well, that's probably just a lab-made derivative of crude oil. However, there's a whole other level of trickery that's completely illegal: food fraud. That's when criminals bottle up corn syrup and call it 100% honey, or when they pass off cheap mozzarella as pure Parmigiano-Reggiano. We head around the world to uncover how producers get away with food deception and how we can spot the real stuff.

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☆ How 60,000 pounds of crawfish are harvested a day in Louisiana
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Korey Isbell | Dorian Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Louisiana produces 90% of the United States' crawfish. Most of the farmed crawfish comes from rice fields in one small area of Cajun country. In the 1980s, rice farmers experimented with cultivating crawfish in their fields. Today, business is booming, clearing the way for the next generation of farmers like Madison McIntyre. But the industry is also unregulated and fast-moving, trapping producers in an endless fight to keep crawfish alive.

Persons: Madison McIntyre Locations: Louisiana, United States

☆ How 30,000 metric tons of coconuts are processed a year in Sri Lanka
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Korey Isbell | Dorian Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Western wellness influencers once dubbed coconuts the new "it" superfood. Even though nutritionists couldn't agree if they deserved the hype, people kept gobbling them up. Well, harvesting coconuts is dangerous work. Farmers risk their lives climbing 80-foot palm trees to get the fruit. We visit Sri Lanka to see how coconut farmers bear the burden of the West's superfood obsessions.

Persons: nutritionists couldn't Organizations: Farmers Locations: Sri Lanka

☆ Why It Costs $1 Million a Day to Run a Cruise Ship
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Korey Isbell | Dorian Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

From the captain's bridge to the engine room, a staff of 2,400 works 24-7 to keep Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas sailing.

Organizations: Royal Caribbean's Symphony

Limestone is used in everything from cement and tiles to paper- and plastic-making. The Egyptians that mine the haunting white mountains risk their lives and limbs to get it.

It takes about 20 aloe leaves to make just one gallon of aloe vera juice. But some aloe products have been found to contain no aloe at all. Narrator: So how are real aloe vera products made? Narrator: A 2016 Bloomberg investigation found that Walmart, CVS, and Target's aloe products contain no evidence of aloe at all. When they "aloe gel," is it a gel that's made from blending up the whole leaf, or is it truly just pure aloe gel?

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