How Science Fights Fake Food Scams

[@dementious]

I live in a seafood town and one of the largest seafood distributers and one of the oldest restaurants were discovered to be in cahoots while marketing tilapia and other cheap fish as grouper and red snapper, charging 3 to 5 times the actual amount that should have been charged. They were both charged an undisclosed fine (rumours say it was only 10-15 thousand dollars). No one was held acrually legally accountable and allegedly the restaurant and seafood distributer are still doing it.

[@-SimonRiley]

Well pretty sure the fine was not even a quarter of the profits they earned so no wonder they would keep doing it

[@marcoottina654]

Reiteration should be punished 10x times harshly, in a compound way: 10x, 100x, 1000x, etc

[@Ikxi]

10-15k "fine" for them to be able to make more than 10-15k

[@DanteGabriel-lx9bq]

Yeah, let's not act like capitalism dosen't find it attractive.

[@nothanks9503]

Name please

[@psalm91rdwlkfpgrl]

as someone with multiple anaphylactic allergies, this is terrifying... especially since people like to gaslight me out of some of them

[@arcturuslight_]

How the hell are there still people not believing in allergies when they are so common now?

[@MiraNecole]

@@arcturuslight_ it shouldn't come off as a surprise when there's still flat earthers and other ignorant people out there

[@malevolentia28]

@@arcturuslight_ dude there are some people who dont believe im lactose intolerant and i live in a country where actually most of the population is lactose intolerant...

[@l.i.a.m.b]

⁠@@arcturuslight_most people won’t outright accuse you of lying, but there are definitely those who will give you looks or wont respect your food boundaries

[@kenbrown2808]

and anaphylactic allergies are a really expensive harmful thing for people to try to gaslight.

[@Digiflower5]

This is a nightmare for allergies / intolerances.

[@jogennotsuki]

Intolerances*

[@YuBeace]

As someone with a TON of food allergies and intolerances, this type of sh*t ruins my life. Sometimes I have a reaction and I have NO WAY of tracking down where it even came from. It’s disheartening AF. ☹️

[@vi3tv0tinh]

Weak

[@hah.365]

Saaaaaaame

[@jennastephens1224]

Lol yeah.While I don't have a ton of food allergies like you, I just have one but it's rare - Alpha Gal Syndrome. It doesn't have anything to do with that online Alpha/Beta/Sigma personality bs, rather what it does do is make me allergic to a sugar found inside the bodies of most mammals. I can still be around mammals (so I don't react from, say, petting my cat or kissing my partner), I just can't eat them. People think I'm lying about it and I'm just a picky vegan or whatever and that I should just be a little tougher. I've had several people assualt me in the past this way (I did press charges a couple times) because they thought that it would be ok and it would be a funny prank to slip a little beef broth or real bacon bits into my food, and then were shocked when I started reacting and 911 was called. I live in the US and the only way I could afford the hospital visits is by suing the person and/or resturant who did this to me in the first place and making them pay (literally, lol) instead. Edit: Typo

[@faq_is_love]

Why so weak?

[@yourgooglemeister6745]

Of course you do. I bet you still wear a mask too? Have you got your attention quota for today?

[@Oceanblue_Art_]

This is all great for the big companies but if I had a corn allergy it'd be really nice if there was a way for /me/ to know whether my honey is going to kill me

[@cassieoz1702]

Most of the world doesn't have high-fructose-corn-syrup. My understanding was that Europe's problem 'imported honey' was from USA

[@scottfox543]

@@cassieoz1702the vast majority of counterfeit honey is coming from a huge network of companies in Asia. I think the series on Netflix called Rotten has an episode about it. Highly recommend that series!

[@popdogfool]

Isnt high fructose corn syrup in everything in the USA? Will it actually trigger your allergy?

[@THE-X-Force]

@@cassieoz1702 Most of the world and most of the food produced for the world are not the same thing.

[@NathanTheNinjaTaylor]

​@@popdogfoolThis person doesn't have a corn allergy because that isn't a thing. They said "if I had."

[@Potatoe-f6u]

They really need to increase consequences and/or enforcement because clearly a lot of people still think it's worth doing.

[@derekstein6193]

Crime doesn't pay... unless said crime is white collar and makes A LOT of money.

[@sleazybtd]

@@derekstein6193 And it's going to get worse in the next few years.

[@kanal7523]

Ain't no way they will increase the punishment/enforcement for tackling crimes that could disrupt the economy, its all a cost benefit analysis, and the benefits of chasing these types of crimes aren't bigger than just letting it be and only applying some fines here and there.

[@MustafaCanatan]

Unfortunately the next four years will result in a large spike of preventable deaths in the US.

[@TheChosenOne-l6c]

If the ingredients label doesn’t match what is in the actual product, the maker deserves federal prison 10-20 years minimum. NO EXCEPTIONS. It is public endangerment.

[@RobKandell]

Turns out that Extra Virgin Olive Oil was actually very experienced and rather cynical.

[@Royce-fw1du]

This is why an active FDA is so important. Watch what happens to the FDA in the next year.

[@SayAhh]

Ditto with the USDA, OSHA and health inspectors.

[@Nephritesword]

Republicans want us to be sicker so that private insurance companies will make more money, which they then give the GOP a chunk of.

[@snowmiaow]

@@Royce-fw1du the FDA is considered way behind now, not sure why

[@macsnafu]

This assumes 2 things. First, you're assuming that the FDA is good and effective at their job. And second, that private certification can't do it as well as or better than the FDA or other government agency. I'm not sure that either of these two assumptions are valid.

[@russianbear0027]

​@@macsnafuthe FDA is effective. Could be better (need more inspectors), but we have come very far with food and medicine safety in the last 100 years. Private certs are only really effective when the victims of fraud are other companies since individual people don't have much power without a government to back them up.

[@osotanuki3359]

i just did a 6 week lab in my bio101 class where we were DNA barcoding sushi samples from a local restaurant!! most of them were correctly labeled but all the flying fish roe was actually capelin roe :C

[@snowmiaow]

I could not cut open and kill a beautiful flying fish to take its eggs but at least it is not endangered.

[@HisameArtwork]

@@snowmiaow yeah this is a happy ending fraud story XD

[@NotSoMuchFrankly]

Chef sets the flying fish out, turns around to grab a knife or something, turns back, where's the fish? Did it swim away? Did it walk? You figure it out as you enjoy your capelin roe. We reserve the right to make substitutions at this restaurant.

[@yoeyyoey8937]

What school is that?

[@Acidfunkish]

​@@snowmiaowThat is absolutely not how flying fish roe is harvested.

[@asmodahlia]

I used to work at a small seafood chain in GA that would deliberately sell many fish as other fish like this. The worst offender was grouper - they would use swai instead and sell it for grouper prices. Most people couldn't tell the difference, but occasionally we'd get people who could tell the difference and our managers would try to gaslight them into thinking they were out of their minds to question it. It was so scummy. The family that owned it were also horrible people who abused and exploited all of us. I ended up permanently disabled because of them. I still throw them a big ol' bird whenever I pass one of their restaurants 😂

[@LKMNOP]

You have a lot of disgust for them in cheating people yet you had no problems working for them and getting money from them that they got from cheating people. You didn't even do a whistleblower. That makes you on par with the people you despise

[@ike7539]

Yeap, exactly

[@hobojoe9717]

@@LKMNOP No, it really doesn’t.

[@gbjsyzftbcacjyfubjygkgcjae3182]

the fish one is a nightmare for me (allergies). i can eat a lot of fish, but some really common ones can make me super sick. already i have to deal with restaurants listing anything fish-like as 'fish' with no specific type given, but straight up lying about what kind of fish it is is so much worse

[@Bushidounohana]

I was caught by the science intrigue, reeled in by the devastating fashion sense, and slain by the puns. Excellence, as always!

[@marcusmifflin6941]

Food counterfeiters are given a slap on the wrist when caught and it's a multi billion dollar industry. They make way more than the fine, so they just relabel and keep doing it. 😊

[@derekstein6193]

When counterfeiters don't have to give back their ill-gotten gains when caught, and the fines are noticeably lower than what was gained, the punishment isn't really a punishment or a fine; it's just another bit of overhead to add to the rest.

[@thejiggler7780]

lamp oil? rope? bombs?

[@DanmakuFriedChicken]

Its yours my friend! As long as you have enough rubies

[@WolfHack]

Sorry Link, I can't give credit.

[@akpsyche1299]

Come back when you're a little, mm, richer.

[@Just_A_Dude]

I'm surprised you guys didn't touch on counterfeit Saffron. Those little flower stigma are worth a fortune.

[@MsSamareh]

Oh yeah, let me pull out my DNA bar coder to make sure my honey and Olive oil is legit.

[@darkstarr984]

I love that mass spectrometry is commonplace enough a ton of places actually have one

[@whimsicallychrissy]

I knew that food counterfeiting was a thing, just never realized how widespread it was. Also, love the outfit Niba!

[@TheHumanNacho]

Look up "counterfeit oregano". Turkey is currently exporting as much as 130% of its oregano harvest.

[@Vininn126]

Really enjoying Niba's hosting lately

[@rashkavar]

For those who want their vanilla to be proper vanilla extract and don't have an isotope ratio mass spectrometer to test theirs in, you can make it yourself, you just need to plan ahead. Like at least 6 months ahead. (oh, and if you're a recovering alcoholic who feels they need to avoid being around alcohol...this is not a solution for you.) Vanilla beans aren't sold at most major grocery stores, but you can certainly order them online, or pick them up at the kind of grocery store that specializes in the rare and fancy niche foods that big stores don't carry, if you have access to such a store. You'll need a sealable container - ideally the kind with a clamped-down lid, since you'll want to keep the lid on very tight for a while. And you'll need some alcohol - a really bland vodka or something like Everclear is best for a pure vanilla flavour (anything that's basically just alcohol and water and is 40% or more (or maybe a bit less - I've only done it with 40% abv vodka.). Any kind of hard alcohol will do the job, so if you want to experiment with mixing your favourite whiskey or brandy with vanilla, that's entirely viable, and I've seen claims that some flavour combinations work really well...but you will be adding your beverage's flavour to the vanilla, and that will in turn change how the vanilla alters the flavour of your end product. Once you've got your beans, your sealable container, and your alcohol, you're ready for the next step: Cut the beans down the middle lengthways - you're looking to open up access to the interior of the bean. Cut them to length such that they fit in your sealable container, if they won't fit (you might want at least a couple of inches of room above that). Clean out your container - it doesn't have to be 100% sterile because we're using intense amounts of alcohol, that's gonna kill anything that's left, but...we're gonna be leaving this to sit for *a while* so caution is generally wise. Put the vanilla beans in, then pour your chosen alcohol in such that the beans are fully submerged. Seal it up with just a bit of air at the top, and shake/swirl your container a bit. Put it in the cupboard for 6 months to a year. (Swirling it occasionally will help a bit, but you don't need to do it much. Just be patient. After 6 months have passed, open it up and smell it. You'll either get a smell with some alcohol and a lot of vanilla smell, or something gross - probably the former. If it's the latter...congratulations on growing a vial of mould, don't consume anything from that container. If it's the former, it's vanilla extract. The professionally made stuff uses an industrial process to speed up the extraction process, so it'll taste a *bit* different - fortunately vanilla isn't quite as delicate as olive oil, so the industrial extraction process doesn't ruin it the way it does with olive oil. But...the stuff you make at home will definitely be real vanilla extract, you're just doing it the old fashioned way. (And don't worry about the alcohol content - most of what you make with vanilla extract uses very small quantities and any heat process will evaporate the alcohol out of it anyway. It's no different from using cooking wine in things.)

[@Zuraneve]

Penzey's Spices sells vanilla beans. They also have many, MANY other spices and are a fantastic company to buy from. Another thing you can do with vanilla beans is make vanilla sugar. It's basically the same process as making vanilla extract, but with sugar instead of alcohol. You will need to agitate the sugar once every week or so to help the flavor spread evenly.

[@AnonymousAnarchist2]

7:22 Yes. Yes they do *when Vanillin and other aromatics are being used* And yes, we do find excuses to use aromatic metalworking liquids even when other often cheaper fluids will work better. Usually the cheaper better working chemical is keosine or naptha. 😒. We really try not to use that stuff. Because of the smell. We tell the big bosses and monied clients its because its a fire hazard but it is because of the smell and resulting headaches.

[@alien9279]

Respect lol

[@obedhernandez4533]

The thumbnail took me by surprise because I've tried using olive oil as a replacement for lamp oil; It didn't work. Now I'm wondering if the site I read it from was up to something. 🤔

[@ProfessorJayTee]

Olive oil *will work* for lamp oil, but it must be pre-heated before it will burn! You need a metal olive-oil lamp. I used to have one, they work pretty well to create light... but... Warning: within a few hours, everything around the lamp will smell, taste, and feel as though you had been throwing olive oil around everywhere. A small amount of olive oil will vaporize without burning, then condense and deposit on every nearby surface.

[@xZpsychox]

do our thumbnails look different? I see sushi

[@astrocoastalprocessor]

it can't be overstated how much film heated olive oil can create on surfaces 😢

[@astrocoastalprocessor]

@@xZpsychox the thumbnails change sometimes

[@ThePrufessa]

Interesting​@@ProfessorJayTee

[@lucasok1185]

it felt odd seeing a sock add not for the awsome socks club

[@kayliecarlino3030]

Hhh? Right over my head

[@Adam1984_]

@@kayliecarlino3030 Awesome Socks Club is a subscription service that delivers socks with fun designs every month. It is owned by The Vlog Brothers, John and Hank Green, who also own the company that runs Sci Show.

[@Ikxi]

yea that was confusing xD

[@philipb2134]

Virtually zero "truffle oil" you can afford, was made with truffles; a large proportion of saffron generally on the market is bogus.

[@TrineDaely]

The science stuff is great, but consumers need ways to sus out the fakes that are cheap and easy.

[@SusanWojcucki]

Ooh, I wish y’all included saffron. Often faked for crazy profit margins

[@saltrifle9214]

Yes! Probably one of the most faked foods out there.

[@archmagemc3561]

Honey is legally counterfitted in the USA. Only 25% of a honey product has to be actual honey, the other 75% can be high fructose corn syrup to legally be classified as honey.

[@marcoottina654]

That's a shitty legislation....

[@jankoset7766]

I mean...majority of the other world would argue that similar legal counterfitting is the fact, that you can call american made cheese parmesan or sparkling wine champagne... Food safety laws seems to be much looser in USA than for example in EU in most categories, unfortunately...

[@alien9279]

Woo lobbying

[@Ikxi]

legal counterfeits through legal bribes

[@LumpyBrain]

@@jankoset7766***sigh*** I’m going to be that person. *counterfeiting

[@MarkAhlquist]

10 bucks says that many if not all of the big companies do the same scams, they just don't get caught usually

[@gustavoguti27]

Honey with corn syrup doesn't crystalize when it's cold. Real honey will harden. That's the cheapest way

[@TheZebinator]

you can make real honey not crystalize by pasteurizing it and maybe another process but that removes a lot of the taste and might decrease the beneficial compounds in it as it might break down from the heat. Americans seem to generally not like crystallized honey but in other parts of the world it's normal, in Europe we can buy runny honey but it's usually not as tasty, at least for me. There are also certain special honey types harvested later in the year that crystalizes at a lower temp than room temp so it will naturally stay liquid inside your house

[@Talking_Ed]

Honey will also just crystallise over time for example

[@claudiajurgensen9544]

Nope the crystallisation of honey depends on the flowers the bees visited. Honey from rapeseed crystallizes, while honey from Robinie/Akazie trees keeps liquid.

[@TheChosenOne-l6c]

All these “tests” for honey a partially bogus. Real honey is a very wide variety, depending on what species of bees, time of year produced, climate produced, health of the bees, processing method, for example. Real honey can come in many different colors, viscosities, crystallization tendencies, and many more. There is no quick test to see if it is real honey or not. Source: friend is a hobbyist beekeeper.

[@gravestone4840]

The majority of "scallops" sold in the US are actually sting ray. Scallops are hard to gather, sting rays get caught in drag nets non stop. The flesh is similar enough that they just use a cookie cutter and they then get to charge you the price of a more expensive item for what to them is by catch.

[@helenbaumander3953]

I'm guessing that if there is no real maple syrup in a bottle, it's not allowed to even have that word on the label in Canada anymore. It's called things like table syrup.

[@LeahMcGrew-m2x]

I am a biological artificial maple detector. When I was 11 and going into 7th grade, I started to get sick every Wednesday. Throwing up sick. Now, if I even smell artificial maple, I get queasy. My wife was and my roommate is diabetic. My wife - before we got married - was on a weight lost thing and she had picked up maple flavoring. I had told her years before about what it does to me, but she had never seen it in action. She asked me to sniff it. I took just a whiff. She told me that even with her poor vision, and no color vision, she could see that my face went pale.

[@Kittra.kaibyo]

I find this incredibly interesting. Thanks for sharing! I don't have any cool reason other than having pretty good taste buds I guess but I can always tell too, with that and honey vs the imitations.

[@snowmiaow]

My BF is similar with Asiago cheese. Can't slip it past him.

[@nothanks9503]

Im a biological fresh fruit detector I’m allergic to pollen found in many fruits and vegetables but the pollen is broken down by heat so I can detect if fruit is actually fresh or if something contains fresh fruit juice by if it makes my mouth itchy or not

[@Kittra.kaibyo]

@@nothanks9503 Wow! Setting aside the unenviable discomfort, *that* is an impressive and useful trait to have!

[@nothanks9503]

@@Kittra.kaibyo Yeah I think it’s because my ancestors were from a frozen wasteland and only at jam and jelly and stuff

[@kingarmorgator]

sounds like we need to redefine labeling and packaging standards...

[@TheChosenOne-l6c]

Altering a food product should be charged as poisoning a large population, especially at scale, as in the case of supermarket “honey”. 10-20 years in federal prison, MINIMUM, should be mandated for cases of this. No exceptions. Don’t mess with people’s food.

[@achen131]

Science actually can’t solve greed

[@thekaxmax]

Can study it and suggest solutions. But it's not science's job to do anything about it.

[@bryb2644]

Science and religion are a friendly Tom and Jerry on that problem.

[@thekaxmax]

@@bryb2644 Religion is all about greed, even when it says it isn't. Science studies it, but isn't about it.

[@YuBeace]

@@bryb2644 Wait, where does religion come into play in this?

[@darth_yoda]

Another thing that is often swaped for a cheaper substance is Cinnamon (Ceylon) it is often replaced with cassia (Cinnamomum cassia) Which are not even in the same plant family as Ceylon and cost around 20% of what Ceylon is BUT factories will sell Cassia as being Cinnamon with out telling you that its from Cassia and NOT Ceylon.

[@tru7hhimself]

cinnamomum verum is in the same family as cinnamomum cassia. but they taste very different (and have different uses). the sad thing is that it's hard to find real ceylon cinnamon. the good thing is that the two are very easy to tell apart.

[@marketads1]

Honey in the US can only be called HONEY if it’s 100% honey. If it contains corn syrup or anything else it has to say “blend.”

[@therongjr]

As a frugal person with no food allergies, I wouldn't mind paying for safely adulterated food, but I would want to know about it. I stretch out olive oil with canola oil already anyway!

[@Syco108]

Thanks for the heads up on the food scammers Niba

[@Chameleonradio]

Subbing escolar for tuna is unfortunate--even if you don't have allergies the fish has an indigestible oil that will uh...come out liberally. I've seen sushi restaurants even label it as "white tuna" openly.

[@keithmichael112]

That's why I pay extra for single source olive oil, from California, it's reassuring it hasn't been adulterated

[@prognerite9447]

Fair trade is also a good option, cuz if it gets found out they were committing fraud, they’d lose their free trade license (which ultimately gives more than swapping olive oil for lamp oil would give them)

[@TheChosenOne-l6c]

Even then you can’t be sure. Everyone is scheming and scamming…

[@mm-yt8sf]

if the punishment is only fines against non-human constructs (companies) that are controlled by (gasp) humans. then that's not a real deterrent, just a cost of doing lucrative business.

[@saltrifle9214]

It's almost as if the way we organize the whole economy is incredible wasteful and cruel for no other reason than to enrich an ever shrinking circle of billionaires who believe they were chosen by God to lead us hordes of simpletons because we wouldn't know what's best for ourselves anyways.

[@spindash64]

It could be if the Fines were made larger than the theoretical profits of Fraud.

[@augustlizabethmoore]

Idk who this new host is, but I love your vibe, you dress like kinda like a vampire and I'm down with it ❤

[@KaitlinGaspar]

@@swflracingbro get out of here

[@ike7539]

Most of the lamb kebabs served at restaurants are actually beef kebaps.

[@angelastevenson252]

Interesting information, but un-useable for the consumers. We can't go into a grocery store and start opening container to take samples for analysis.

[@KrintalSrim]

Concerned about unregistered cars and drivers, I decided to get insurance. We carried 800 horses and 59 barrels across the Atlantic. A 15-inch steel door is fitted to a red panel in the kitchen at the center. Empty drink. They fell, the car flipped, and everyone behind them died. He had to stay on the road. I thought about driving 18 mph, but I didn’t. After enjoying trains and buses, I realized that they are the kings of traffic in this country. Now, imagine a robot driving around town and a car driving itself. Let’s see what we can do. I live in a small coastal town. I want to join a fishing crew. Now I live in LE.

[@youmaycallmeken]

Some spices are adulterated deliberately with lead to enhance color or increase weight. While other spices including cinnamon as well as chocolate can contain higher than safe levels of lead & chromium naturally from the soil. Look for spices and chocolate (and rice -arsenic?) that have been tested and deemed safe.

[@realtalk675]

Thank god i never bought olive oil , i make it every year here in croatia with my family. Even with a few threes you have enough for whole year.

[@SayAhh]

You should trademark the name "Three Trees "

[@dougwilson4537]

@@SayAhh 😂 You made my day, with the "Three Trees" comment. Very Good Sir!

[@seansingh4421]

That is one really good looking host 😂😂😂 Instant “How you doin ?”

[@SteelYoda]

My suspicions were first risen when the olive oil which has a specific smoke temp began smoking fairly quickly in my pen. Use a pan thermometer, and proved it. Wrote to the company, chosen foods, but they never responded. Guess I'm not big enough to sue them and they probably know I don't have access to a mass spectrometer. I think we should include these at the public library so that the average person can knock these tests out really quick.

[@vince8723]

governments are also a problem allowing 60% olive oil for example to be legally advertised as 100% in some contries

[@kimmismith9174]

We love Bombas!! ❤

[@philipb2134]

There are 5 species of "red snapper" which can commercially called that - all of them lutjanus spp. Everything else, i.e., the vast majority of what passes for "red snapper", is anything else.

[@Christopher-b1p]

It's time for a separate US government agency that only does food. Similar to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in Canada.

[@Royce16727]

Food Police! Taking a bite out of crime. Lol, sorry; had to.

[@hollish196]

I am very luck to live in a rural area where I can get both honey and maple syrup created locally. As in, one can go see where it comes from!

[@Stealthy_Sloth]

I love how sassy she is it's so attractive.

[@DomyTheMad420]

i'm not usually one to do this (especially on science videos!) but that outfit is amazing the lines, the details, the red that works so well with the purple hair and the earrings are just icing on the cake!

[@schuringleon3207]

Lamp Oil? Rope? Bombs?

[@snowmiaow]

Most of this has been going on for decades.

[@sherrihaight2724]

At least we're still safe from kinder eggs.

[@lacelace9331]

American wasabi is big for that

[@tylerlawson5923]

Do Hank and John run Sci Show? I was just surprised the ad was for socks other than their awesome socks club.

[@saltrifle9214]

Yeah, Hank founded the company that also owns PBS Eons, journey to the microcosmos, and a few others.

[@theskilllessgamer5795]

Food crimes are not punished hard enough. Usually it is just some fines undoing the illegal profit.

[@crimsonraen]

Huh, here's for more food transparency! :)

[@mosescelica17]

Honey is pretty easy to tell apart from fructose addled ripoffs, honey is unlikely to remain sticky when you rub it between your fingers.

[@vectorwolf]

Corn syrup laced honey also won't crystallize. If your honey goes solid, it's legit.

[@Croakin]

Olive oil police, arrest this man

[@ThatMakesSenseToMe]

New fear unlocked

[@Silas-e5t]

Hey I'm wearing fuzzy socks and comfy slippers 🗾

[@DeRien8]

I wouldn't mind eating cheaper fish that tasted and looked mostly the same as something more expensive, as long as I knew what I was getting into and what the mercury level and economic impact were.

[@lizardmilk]

Wait, Bombas?! What about awesome dock club?

[@EricCampbell-hx4hv]

Minor correction: sturgeon and paddlefish are not closely related, they're in different families and shared their last common ancestor 184 million years ago.

I'm fine with beet juice. At least it's not cadmium red.

[@erikarussell1142]

Bone apple tea

[@NGBigfield]

Scishow advertising socks that are not "Awesome"?! I am shocked

[@PirateKingMizzle]

5:30 YIKES 😮

[@marilynlucero9363]

Fantastic! So... when can we buy our very own scientist at the store to help us figure out all details whenw e buy everything? I know adopting a scientist is hard work, got to feed it, give it a bath and take them out twice a day, no worries!

[@FNLNFNLN]

Unrelated, but that necklace can not be comfortable. It's literally digging into her skin.

[@velzekt]

If people can't tell the difference, why does it matter?

[@marketads1]

Please be aware: there’s a lot of misinformation in the comments. Check everything out more than once.

[@sea-abyssal]

Reminds me so much of the story behind the Austrian Wine Poisoning situation

[@HKduane]

The Laos one too

[@sea-abyssal]

@HKduane oh, i haven't heard about that one. Now I gotta look it up.

[@whimsicalhamster88]

Seems really messed up to kill a fish just to eat its eggs.

[@heyy13]

Modern cavier farming doesn't usually kill the fish. They're given c- sections.

[@sm5574]

Sturgeon meat is eaten.

[@snowmiaow]

Yeah, no thanks.

[@Daniko2]

Ikura (salmon roe) doesn't have that problem.

[@brandonmccloskey9803]

So, I know I'm old when I'm looking for reasons why the new sci showpeople bug me. I can't stop watching her hands....

[@CarleyGoshaw28]

Remember, when you see “whitefish” being sold, it can be one or a blend of up to 60 species of fish.

[@olafzerres3764]

Please - keep the hands calm.

[@HisameArtwork]

this lady is so poorly dressed, I can't watch this vid. it's hurting my eyes. I have to close the vid. she must be a horrible person if no one bothered to help her be presentable. there are ppl that can't accept any observations and have meltdowns.

[@wams112]

Thank you for the advice SciShow.

[@YuBeace]

I am so sorry to all US citizens who will have to deal with an even further defunded FDA in the future.

[@quickmythril2398]

lol

[@nancycurtis7315]

You did not say that vanilla flaver also comes from glands near bum of animals. Commonly used.... just a thought.😂

[@larscandland4072]

Rope?

[@alwaysglackin565]

Hanging?

[@namingisdifficult408]

Bombs?

[@salena5951]

??????

[@micahrobbins8353]

You want it?

[@AshtonPyr]

​@@namingisdifficult408 You want it?

[@TehPwnerer]

I'm confused. How does 'Maple falling' have to do with syrup? Syrup is a spring thing

[@gokoo123]

This whole episode was like Tasty treat :) Or is it? :/ There's a test for that :)

[@IKEA_SSB]

Morshu

[@micahrobbins8353]

Acknowleged

[@kidmohair8151]

profits profits profits...yay capitalism.

[@gastonmarian7261]

Truly, people risking other people's health because the system they were raised in cursed them with dragon greed

[@katbairwell]

Niba!! It's been a real joy seeing you flourish as a SciShow host this year, I hope we'll get to spend many, many hours learning new and occasionally bizarre things with you in the new year. Wishing all the SciShow team, and all the Nerd Fighters in the comments, a wonderful Christmas if you hold it, and a wonderful couple of weeks if you don't. As always, it's been a real joy to spend time with you all in 2024.

[@militantpacifist4087]

It’s funny because of the website Honey is a scam.

[@kenthehobo]

Food fraud? Like oat milk?

[@screes620]

My biggest issue with the whole olive oil "Scam" is that 1. Legit extra virgin olive oil is super expensive and incredibly hard to get, and 2. Not all knock offs are bad, some are exactly the same as the legit kind, it's just not made in the right part of the world. There really needs to be a 3rd category here, a "technically the same, but from a different part of the world".

[@hopefullyhigh]

I once heard california is the only place in the world with a legal definition for extra virgin olive oil. Idk what that means or its implications but snapple fact for ya 👍

[@norbertlauret8119]

That means that snapple doesn't get its facts right... France has legal definitions for several kind of olive oil for quite some time and I'm pretty sure that's the case for Italy, Spain and probably a bunch of others mediterranean countries (a lot of olive production there). Today, I would guess the legislation comes from the UE...

[@lordpunriq]

Awesome! Another host that sounds and acts interested in what they're saying. Some of these new people sound bored.

[@panninggazz5244]

agree, and with the AI voices and people literally stealing KZbin channels......it makes it very difficult...this channel seems like it it valid...

[@jennivamp5]

Whether it's real or not, no one should be eating blue fin tuna. It is far too rare and far too ecologically valuable to be on anyones plate. My as well be snacking on a white rhino.

[@Mognam]

while i agree with you, nothing is going to stop it unfortunately. too much money and greed involved. 😥

[@MiraNecole]

​@@Mognam just like how sharks are ecologically valuable, yet people still hunt them just to make shark fin soup shark fins dont even have any valuable nutrients so the shark gets wasted after suffering a cruel death

[@quickmythril2398]

now you are making me hungry. i will have the bald eagle omelette for breakfast, panda burgers for lunch, and a some blue whale alfredo for dinner.

[@Mognam]

@@quickmythril2398 if you're eating panda burger make sure it's made from baby panda as they are more tender than the adults. 😆