# "All Natural" ingredients?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-natural-ingredients/239706>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [April 13, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-natural-ingredients/239706 "2004-04-13T01:32:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-natural-ingredients/239706/1 "2004-04-13T01:32:19Z")

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> Anheuser-Busch claims that Budweiser contains only natural ingredients: water, barley malt, rice, hops, yeast, and tannin, an anticloudiness agent that is mostly removed from the final product. They say there’s no chicken hearts or anything else.

Aren’t chicken heart “all natural?” I mean, we don’t manufacture them from radioactive chemical sludge, they’re still made ‘the good-old-fashioned way!’

Gee, all of a sudden “All natural” doesn’t seem such a good selling point.  
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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-natural-ingredients/239706/2 "2004-04-13T21:14:42Z")

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Link to the Straight Dope column this thread is in response to: [Does Budweiser beer contain … chicken hearts?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_356b.html)

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**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-natural-ingredients/239706/3 "2004-04-14T17:49:11Z")

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> [@Snakespirit](#):
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> Gee, all of a sudden “All natural” doesn’t seem such a good selling point.

It hasn’t been for years. Decades ago, it meant “real” as opposed to “ersatz”, but nowadays it means “our product is better because we use magic”.