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Do Bakery Products Contain Human Hair?
An old article on Albalagh.net (it was new to me) describes how numerous bakery products contain an ingredient made out of human hair, and are therefore not allowed to be eaten by Muslims. The offending ingredient is the amino acid L-Cysteine, which can be made out of feathers, hooves... or yes, human hair. Back in January I linked to a story about soy sauce in China being made from human hair, so when I heard about bagels, croissants, pizza dough, etc. also containing human hair, I immediately suspected that this human-hair-in-food thing may be a bit of an urban legend. But as far as I can tell, there is some truth to it. The Shenzhen government has stated that it's looking into the soy sauce/human hair allegations. And L-cysteine can be made from human hair, as this Australian food additives guide notes. But I can't imagine human hair would provide the cheapest source of L-cysteine for commercial producers of it. Where would they be getting the hair from? Unless Supercuts is secretly supplying bulk shipments of it to the bakery industry (now there's a disgusting thought).
Posted By: Alex | Date: Mon May 31, 2004 | Permalink | Total Comments: 8
Category: Food
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Try India where hair is shorn off millions of heads each year at Tirupati. It is no secret that much of the hair is sold to make wigs. Other hair not being of good quality is sold to Chinese industry.
Posted by Ronald  in  New York  on  Thu Jun 03, 2004  at  02:36 PM
I like to eat human hair, though.
Posted by Fred  in  Florida  on  Mon Nov 20, 2006  at  08:08 AM
The April 2007 edition of Harper's magazine does a piece titled the "Dietary Industrial Complex" that disects the contents of a musilim approved MRE (meal ready to eat) that mentions human hair and bakery products...
Posted by william farkas  in  hamilton ont  on  Wed Apr 11, 2007  at  04:37 PM
Human Hair mmmmmm................
Posted by Bob  in  Florida  on  Mon Aug 27, 2007  at  03:44 PM
White flour usually contains the addative L-Cysteine which is sourced from animal hair feather and in some cases, human hair.

Awful but true.

To avoid eating human hair in your bread - buy 'Wholemeal' instead.

Avoid E120 (european clasification) red food colouring too if you don't want to eat dead beetles.

JimP
Posted by jim  in  wales (UK)  on  Mon Jan 07, 2008  at  10:26 AM
As a stylist for 25 years, I am used to eating a little hair with my food!
Posted by Sue  in  USA  on  Sun Jul 06, 2008  at  01:05 PM
erghh!!!!!!!!
Posted by sarah  in  wales, uk  on  Sun Feb 22, 2009  at  07:48 AM
hey human hair is yummmyyyyy
Posted by fsgr  in  sgfg  on  Thu Jan 21, 2010  at  04:19 PM
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