Cheese Mites and Maggots
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 04/05/2012

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DESCRIPTION: Cheese manufacturers use spider-like insects and fly larvae to impart particular flavors and aromas to certain cheeses. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at ‪http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/cheese-mites-and-maggots/ and I'll try to answer it!‬ Cheese manufacturers may also add aluminum to cheese to improve sliceability (see Aluminum in Vaccines vs. Food - http://nutritionfacts.org/video/aluminum-in-vaccines-vs-food/), just as the poultry industry adds arsenic to the diets of chickens to improve carcass coloration (Arsenic in Chicken - http://nutritionfacts.org/video/arsenic-in-chicken/). The farmed salmon industry also artificially colors the flesh of their fish (see Artificial Coloring in Fish - http://nutritionfacts.org/video/artificial-coloring-in-fish/) and the egg industry tries in vain to compete with greens by adding plant pigments to chicken feed (Egg Industry Blind Spot - http://nutritionfacts.org/video/egg-industry-blind-spot/). Please feel free to browse through the other videos on questionable industry practices (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/factory-farming-practices/) and hundreds of other videos on more than a thousand subjects (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/). Note that the cheddar cheese mite study is available open access, so you can download it by clicking on the link above in the Sources Cited section.

Image Credit: Ninjatacoshell, John Curtis, Shardan via Wikimedia Commons, and zimpenfish via Flickr.

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