Love Hot Dogs? Not After You Read This

Need another reason not to eat hot dogs? This report should do it for you. While there are many studies that share all the bad stuff that makes it’s way into hot dogs, this report shows that even vegetarian hot dog products aren’t safe. And while this report doesn’t cover all the nasty preservatives in hot dogs and sausage like sodium nitrate that can have impact your health almost immediately, it should give you a pretty good “gross factor” and help you change your mind about loving this all American food.

Eating right means no hot dogs

The food that’s a staple of American cookouts is getting some scrutiny for some unexpected ingredients.

Clear Food, an independent company that analyzes food at the molecular level, found that 14.4 percent of the hot dogs it tested were “problematic.”

Clear Food reported that it found human DNA in six of the 345 samples, or 2 percent of all samples tested. Four of the six samples that tested positive for human DNA were vegetarian products.

Other ingredients such as chicken, lamb, turkey and beef showed up in samples that were not listed on the product’s packaging, according to Clear Food, which did note that no pork was found in the “100% Kosher” products it tested.

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