Morehouse Prepared Horseradish — BULLSHIT
Munch or Dump rates Morehouse Prepared Horseradish by Morehouse BULLSHIT — score 0/90.
Sells itself on 'True Natural Taste' while loading in artificial flavoring, titanium dioxide, and a stack of chemical preservatives.
Why this verdict
- 'True Natural Taste' on the label, but artificial flavoring is right there in the ingredients
- Titanium dioxide added purely for color — banned as a food additive in the EU
- Triple preservative stack: potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, sodium metabisulfite
- Modified food starch and EDTA push it firmly into ultra-processed territory
Ingredients (13)
- Grated Horseradish Roots (safe) — The actual food — a real root vegetable with bite.
- DISTILLED VINEGAR (safe) — Simple acid that preserves the sauce naturally and adds tang; no health downside in these amounts.
- Salt (moderate) — Ready meals tend to run salt-heavy; watch the sodium.
- Soybean Oil (moderate) — Refined high-omega-6 seed oil used to fake creaminess
- modified food starch (moderate) — Industrial thickener used to bulk and stabilize the sauce
- citric acid (safe) — Common acidulant for tartness; harmless in this amount but can be rough on tooth enamel.
- Potassium Sorbate (moderate) — Synthetic preservative, generally tolerated but a sign of a heavily preserved product.
- Sodium Metabisulfite (concerning) — Sulfite color preservative that can trigger reactions in asthmatics and sulfite-sensitive people
- Titanium dioxide (concerning) — Whitening colorant banned as a food additive in the EU over genotoxicity concerns, purely cosmetic
- Artificial Flavoring (moderate) — Lab flavor added to a product that has a strong natural one
- sodium benzoate (moderate) — Preservative that can form benzene with citric acid present here; better avoided.
- Natural Flavoring (moderate) — Vague flavor add layered with the artificial one
- calcium disodium edta (moderate) — Chelating preservative to retain freshness, a clear processed-food marker