Twinkie Chronicles

Baking powder, which makes cakes light and airy, is made from three kinds of rocks," he said. Ettlinger found that rocks are not only found in Twinkies, but in any processed cake or bread. Despite the alarming number of chemicals and preservatives packed into this finger food, Ettlinger advised consumers "not to worry" and said hat Americans should "not be shocked" by the multitude of chemical ingredients.

These things are put together in different ways to get different types of food and shapes of food. After he figured out what was inside a Twinkie you might think he would advise folks take a break from this dessert. Are they good for you? Well, that's sort of a strange question. If you want something good for you go eat an apple, eat some zucchini, but don't expect a snack cake to be really, really good for you.

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Ultimately, Ettlinger's study of the Twinkie is an inspection of all processed foods in America. He's even come up with his own name for the Twinkie-ization of American foodstuffs, the Twinkie nexus, to refer to the source of the materials used in these cakes.

In the United States, 14 of the top 20 chemicals are somehow used to make ingredients in Twinkies. These same chemicals come from all over the world, as well as the processes that are used to make them into things like vitamins, artificial colors and artificial flavors," he explained.

Still, despite his attempt to rescue the Twinkie from its rotten reputation, Ettlinger agrees with those who question the need to pack these pint-size delicacies with unpronounceable and unrecognizable ingredients. Can't I make a cake at home with just a few ingredients? The answer is you can. You don't need the preservatives because if you bake well everybody is going to eat your cake really quickly," Ettinger said.

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Democrats will probe Trump Organization projects in Dominican Republic. Republican who lost midterm election appointed to Arizona Senate seat. Why not do the same for polysorbate 60? He considered exploring the ingredients used to make bread, Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink, salad dressing and instant soup. Ettlinger's fact-finding mission took him from a plant in New Jersey that breaks 7 million eggs a day, to a gypsum mine in Oklahoma to a tree farm in Arkansas. So much of his time was spent at locations that appeared far removed from anything resembling food that he had to continually remind himself that he was researching something that, ultimately, you could actually eat.

I'm thinking, all this just for a little cake? The idea for this "little cake" was born during the Depression as a way to use idle shortcake tins. The original banana filling was replaced by vanilla because of rationing during World War II.

The Twinkie's ingredient list marched and morphed along with advances in modern food technology. Foremost among these, according to Ettlinger, was the pursuit of prolonging shelf life.

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