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Many of us have been buying boxed pancake mix for years. However, once you learn what is in them you may lose your appetite.

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The Truth About What Is In Boxed Pancake Mix Is:

 The back of a box of Bisquick reads like this:

Enriched Flour Bleached (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)
Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and/or Cottonseed Oil
Leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate)
Dextrose
Salt

What is sodium aluminum phosphate and why is it in pancake mix, anyway? Not to mention thiamin mononitrate and riboflavin.

While the ingredients in the enriched flour bleached sound scary, they serve just to give the flour some nutrition back that was lost during processing. Niacin is just vitamin B3. Thiamin mononitrate is the synthetic version of vitamin B1. Riboflavin is vitamin B2. And folic acid is vitamin B9.

Sodium aluminum phosphate is a chemical additive that helps baking powder do its job.  Monocalcium phosphate is an acidic chemical additive that helps baking powder react

Dextrose is just a form of glucose, which is a simple sugar and carbohydrate.

The one ingredient that is found in the pancake mix that most of us don’t want served on our morning plates is the partially hydrogenated oil. It’s  the manufactured form of trans fat, and we all know how bad trans fat is for us.

Finished!

Now that you know what is in those store brought pancake mixes, you will find your own pancakes even more delicious. Have you used boxed pancake mixes before?

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Article Source: The Huffington Post