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- Shellac is a natural resin that comes from tiny insects harvested off tree branches in India. Indians have valued the bug for 3,000 years for its versatility. Once processed and melted, shellac can be used as a powerful red dye, a glossy wood finisher, and a shiny coating to citrus fruit and candies such as jelly beans, Whoppers, and Junior Mints. But the farmers who have depended on these miniature bugs for generations say their crops are at risk.
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0:00 - Intro
0:59 - How Lac Bugs Are Harvested
2:48 - How The Factory Makes Shellac
5:31 - How Workers Use Their Teeth To Make Sheets
7:03 - How Shellac Became A Huge Industry
8:30 - The Future Of Shellac
9:58 - Credits
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Why Melted Bugs On Candy And Lemons Fuel A $167 Million Industry | Big Business | Business Insider
I am a violin maker and I use shellac for the confection of alcohol and oil varnish.
This video helped a lot to understand the chain of workers behing these golden flakes.
Thank you 🙏🏼
Thanks for sharing!
Hygiene is illegal in India
@@BusinessInsiderso why did you all pin this specific comment and not the one noting the time between shellac being stretched by someone's feet to it being on their candy?
@@ff1077 I guess we're just going to have to live with the fact that the world is an unpredictable place and unexpected things often happen.
@@ff1077 Have you ever hear about Pasteurization?
28 seconds in and we've gone from a guy stretching shellac with his toes to talking about how it's going to cover my jelly beans.
and if ya dont like it you’re a racist deal with it
he is also biting it with his mouth too
ohh nyoo
🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮@@portanrayken3814
Hey , if you don't like curry toe-jam or Hindu spittle, you just don't know what you are missing the investment of a lifetime and a racist, said no one ever in human history except businesses insider..
And don't forget that duck feces.
Proof that good marketing and packaging can make you eat anything, even bug shit with feet flavour 💀
wines are traditionally made with feet flavor too 🍷
,😂😂😂😂😂
Be specific bro it's not just any feet it's indian feet flavour
*only in india*
@@jueviolegrace8827 India don't have candy culture, We uses it for jewellery and furniture, That's you who demanding shiny candies from birth
I’m 71 years old and have used shellac for years on furniture and never knew that my kids and grandkids eat it to on their candy! Didn’t know it came from bug poop either!
It's *not* bug poop!
@@dingalarmYou really should spend some time looking it up your self, I don't think you understand what secretion and excretion are.
@@dingalarmwhy are you mad
@@Kateluvssuu Because the OP said it's bug poop, and it isn't. I don't understand why some people don't bother to watch, listen & learn the truth from the video 🤷🏻♂️
@@LGBTGROOMSOURCHILDREN No, I understand the difference perfectly. Shellac is a secretion, not an excretion. And it isn't faecal matter, as you seem to imply. It is a resin (natural polymer) exuded by the lac insect to form a cocoon around itself.
What I wonder is who first took the bug goo off trees, chopped it up, melted it, filtered it, put it on wood things and then said "hey I bet this will be great to eat!"
Some clever person who saw it as a wood preservative? Shellac has many uses.
it's shiny, people like shiny, they even like shiny food.
Yeah, I wonder that every time I see something like this.
@@ernstschmidt4725Yeah, Pokemon proves it.
Doubtless they were first using it for tools, like sticking arrow heads on wood. It just evolved for other uses.
as a prolific enjoyer of bee vomit, I see no issue here.
Yeah a lot of people forget that one.
However my understanding is that they have a "nectar stomach" that is separate of their digestive tract, where they store the nectar used for honey
😂🙌🏻❤️
Average bee vomit fan vs average shellac enjoyer
(They're both gigachads)
The bare food, hand and those teeth tho 😅😅😅
@@gemmameidia8438It gets refined, so it doesn't matter at all.
Shellac is the most durable (and expensive) primer on the market. It will cover stains and smells that even oil primers can’t. We use it on smoke damaged homes and heavy cigarette smokers houses too. This stuff is absolutely essential in the painting industry. It blocks water stains and wood tannins better than any other primer and also dries the fastest, in about 15 minutes, because it is used with an alcohol base so it evaporates quickly. Super durable and has the highest adhesion on the market. It has also jumped up $50 a gallon from 2022 to now ($80-$130 CAD).
Got it.
exact, the GOAT of primers!
It makes it real sad to hear the woman is making half her usual profit harvesting them when the demand and price of the stuff has gone up
I am from India. It's a really good video on shellac. I live in a village which is famous for it.
Place
Which village ?
दिहाड़ी कितना मिलता है इनको?
Cuz they seem very poor!
Wish we had better laws to protect them, I can bet my ass the woman climbing has no insurance!
I’m very sorry to hear that. Hopefully your next life is somewhere in Europe
@@Boodoo4YouLMAOOO I'm wheezing
India: We use it for glossing furniture and clothing.
America: We use it for Food..💀
I LOVE AMERICAAAA
@@sokawai5 H1B1 visa still rejected womp womp
it's how we convince ourselves we're not still cavemen sitting around on dull rocks
😂😂
And Americans clown the east for eating bizarre foods😂
This is one of the most bizarre things I have ever heard. I've know shellac as a wood treatment for most of my life and I just figured it was a petrochemical. It's a bug excretion?!?! I have no words.
Wait 'til you find out that anything fermented is from bacteria's waste product. Bread and beer come to mind, first. :D
@@EdwoodCA I make beer, wine, bread, cider, mead etc. It's fun to play with yeast ;)
Bug Shell Lacquer
Nice to know we’ve all indirectly kissed an indian man
@@EdwoodCAyeast for baking and brewing is a fungus though. But I do believe bacteria is added after some yeast fermentation in the production of certain alcoholic beverages though and non-alcoholic ones like Kombucha and yoghurt.
Holy shellac… the amount of work that goes into something that is used in EVERYTHING!!!!
It's crazy how it's not automated on nearly all steps. Like the meat or corn industry
It blows me away that back in the day, people were able to go through processes to figure out how to get to shellac from a bug. Like, what initiated then to think hey, I bet if I do all of these steps in this specific order, I'll get a shiny hard shell. And that goes for a lot of other stuff that we have nowadays. Like chocolate and other items that require a specific item, a certain temperature for a specific amount of time, and this and that and different ingredients, in order to get to the point where you have a whole new product. It's just super interesting to me
I always wonder that too!
Yeah was it trial and errors? What they originally wanted to do w that product or what they wanted to achieve is interesting too... same with what is edible and how something can become edible after like 10 steps
Ancestor want to find something
Ancestor found something on [this]
Ancestor found [this animal] did it
Ancestor had found cultivation
This is how we found Aspirin, from willow bark
Destiny
Well the only coincidence it would take would be someone looking at a half burned tree, seeing some crude shellac dripping out and thinking "mhm that's pretty, let's try to refine it"
props to the tree lady. you're the real MVP.
A real monkey in its natural habitat
its crazy how this multi million dollar industry all begins with a sari wearing lady climbing a tree with a crude knife
Ikr!
@@sum8601and a lot, a hell lot, of wealth disparity!
Don’t forget sock-windlass-spinning guy
I think I am way more impressed with the lady that climbed that tree as if it was just going for a walk.
You never climbed a tree before?
As if she. You said it !!!
@adnanmahmood1014 No, he got it right the first time. The brown sandal nation will never learn civility.
@@adnanmahmood1014 ‘it’ as in the action of climbing the tree, do everyone a favour and learn grammar please
Me too
I’m a woodworker from FL I use shellac on most of the stuff I build I really appreciate the hard work that goes into making the shellac that I use every day I knew it came from a bug but I had no idea what went into making it now after watching this video I have a much more appreciation for shellac and what the people go through to make it. Thank you
you can literally harvest pine resin or Burch oil and do the same thing for a lot cheaper and more locally sourced
I had no idea that’s what shellac came from. Fascinating. I hope the farmers and producers can continue making it.
After all of that foot action, I'll never look at jelly beans the same.
its all boiled down later, so it doesnt matter.
To each their own - more toe jam beans for me then...
And it was lots of that going on!
@@gorak9000 Let's be real, I'll never give up Jelly Belly addiction.
What im saying
5:40 it is a completely natural product with producer's saliva and tiny dirt in it. Completely safe.
😂
Wow. I just learned something I had no idea about. If you had asked me before where shellac came from, I would not have had a clue. This was so fascinating.
As soon as someone slows down the boss man says “Stop Shellacing”
Reminds me of when my coworker told me that I’d “spackled” the toilet
BOI
You win
Your joke literally made me 😬
Good one!
How anybody originally figured out this stuff is absolutely insane to think about..
The power of boredom
prob found it while burning wood in a fire or stove.
then collected it and wondered. "what if"
Word.
Oh yeah
@@Kittsueranow that sounds likely
That was so informative 🌷 Thank you business insider
Going to show this my six year old. He'll soon stop wanting to go to the shop for sweets.
Perfect idea. Maybe show him factory farms too
I'm more impressed by humans discovering how to make this stuff than A.I.
Why not both? Are you very old?
@@imnotdavidxnsx nah. One involved the entire human, the other, just math.
@@Gingerblazeyeah so does interpretive dance. Are you saying that's more impressive than every scientific or medical advancement we've ever made as a species?
That is what Ancient Vedic knowledge. Where the Nalanda University is Destroyed the lakhs of books by burning 6 months. Proud to Santanani.
@@Gingerblaze “just math” lol math is a human endeavor that has had millions of people working on it for thousand of years across cultures
“Iceberg straight ahead!” 4:39
**Starts to play My Heart Will Go On**
😂😂😂ohhhhhhhh,
I got the quote's reference to the movie but it took me far too long to recognize timestamp clip's reference to the scene 😅
"Bring Me The Horizon"
That is a knee slapper Garrett!
This footwork is probably what makes candy give us cavities😂
This is wild. I had absolutely no idea where shellac came from and here I am learning that is melted down insect secretions from India. That’s amazing.
I've learned a lot today and I have already lost weight just by watching this video, thanks for keeping my body in shape, CZcams!!
Shame you couldn't learn about how Westerners exploit 3rd world countries.
amazing to see
we still employ slaves but now we pay them cents
so its okay
soy
XD
Did you puke lol?
Watching them pull the shellac off of the forming tool like one big fruit rollup is quite satisfying
You're telling me there was 100 human feet and the insides of insects in my jelly beans
Thank you for this enlightening video. This is not information that they readily promote or even allow in any kind of textbook in learning institutions in America so thank you for this!!!
I don't know how or why this video popped up on my feed, but I'm so glad it did. Learn something new every day!
because its your "feed".. and were eating bug shit.! lol
@ms.payton1458 Seems random but it's not.., we are being 'groomed' to accept a diet of bugs. The presentation 'appears' harmless.., but consider that, this 'type' of 'apparently harmless' presentation is how 2 generations of children have been groomed towards 'gender confusion' etc. Sneaky sneaky messaging...
Hello Fellow BUG SCAT fetish friend!!🤣
We all eat Doo Doo
@thesinner9617Yes you will lol😅
yes! I love business insider’s youtube channel, it’s taught me so much and it’s always so interesting!
Our carpenter used this (Lakh Daana) to polish our furniture and wooden gates and I must say, it looks so shiny and it's scratch proof now. A lot of people have asked me what did our carpenter did with the wood to pop its color like that.
Is it expensive as compared to a normal furniture varnish??
Same question is it expensive
@@Rushing2death it is not expensive , the price is around same as with other varnishes, and you can make it cheaper if you buy raw shellac and make mixture yourself (dissolve it in ethanol).
However shellac is very sensitive to heat, and will blacken if exposed, so it is not a universal fit.
I love antique furniture and its restauration. Shellac is just invaluable as a wood finish. So much more beautiful than modern plastic finishes. Big respect to these workers keeping this industry alive❤
Great Subject of Shellac.I was just thinking about this thing was used on Seized properties as red shellac with a logo of the company named on it. So much so great story behind this great product and it's life coming from a small insect❤
So cool to watch this. Last night I dissolved some lak flakes in alcohol, and today I French polished a guitar with it. Such a beautiful and easy finish.
yo what guitar was it
@@sosotik probably a classical guitar
@@sosotik It was a 130 year old Columbia parlor style guitar that belonged to my great grandmother. She took it from Virginia to Oregon around 1895.
where do you get the lak flakes from?
How do you French polish? Does it involve tongue?
Our Govt (Indian Govt) should acknowledge this industry since it is very important and more than half of this industry is in India we should encourage and support such occupations so that it becomes even more bigger industry.
They need to charge more. They getting ripped off
Once the Govt pays attention it's game over. Probably some politician will take over the business and kick the local guys out. Bad things happen when the Govt notices your business.
@@arunkumarvikram Then tell us a new solution
@@arunkumarvikram exactly they destroy everything and want full control. They are the ones with mental issues that were abuse as children
@@kaartikeykusshwaha10-c8 what is the problem which needs to be solved ?
The woman is fearless. The way she just stands there chillin' in a treetop!
If I remember correctly (since I'm spanish and I'm not sure If this is goma laca) shellac is used in art history for protecting the pieces when they have golden leaf applied acting as a protective barnish. These shellac scales are disolved in rubbing alcohol, filtered and applied.
Shellac is technically a nature plastic. Been used as wood furniture coating and such since ancient times. It's started to be use in food during industrial era. The guy who process these probably doesn't even know that big food companies use them in food.😅
Hed mostly laugh and panic that people are eating big waste instead of applying it to furniture or jewelry.
Not even close to a plastic.
@@6atlantis
Plastic - adj. (of a substance or material) easily shaped or moulded.
Precisely how is shellac NOT a plastic substance?! 🤔
Oh.
You think they're as insular and ignorant as the average American?! 🤔
Although the USA buys 25% of India's shellac, the vast majority of Americans have no idea that many of their favourite foods are coated in shellac.
@@trueaussie9230 not waterproof like they mentioned in the video. Does not go on in layers like a polyurethane but melts in to itself during each additional coat. Never truly cures, only dries, doesn’t off gas like poly it simply dries when the solvent is gone. Different solvents, alcohol being the solvent for shellac. It’s edible. There are so many variables here that I’m not going to go on, just because something looks like plastic and is used in similar applications doesn’t make it plastic. Put something you cherish out in the rain coated only by shellac or in and tell me if you still consider it a plastic. It is a resin/varnish but it’s natural, plastic is synthetic. So while they may seem to have the same properties, we are comparing apples and oranges.
1:39 twenty fits on a tree! Wearing a sari!! That's what's called bravery.
No, it's called capitalism. If she falls and hurts herself, she loses her means of an income, end up in a perpetual cycle of debt and lives a life of misery.
@@thecccnz lol you burst his bubble man
Most of the hospital owned by government provide free or cheap helthcare india
@@ajaythomas623 but in Northern India, the quality of Govt hospitals is pathetic.
@@ajaythomas623 I guess you should be from Kerala. Only a Keralite can dream of Govt hospitals providing free treatment without bribes
Absolutely amazing! Great documentary 👍
Insightful video on an ingredient that I had no idea that's added to something that I used to LOVE putting in my diet when I wss coming up.
Every jelly bean that you have ever eaten in your entire life. 🎉 SURPRISE🎉
I think this is the last thing to worry about in what a jelly bean contains.
Jelly => pork ( the cleanser aka recycling garbage) , i don't know wich one is worse ... with this processed food industry wont be surprised if they include human shit in the future...
Not just jelly beans. Why do they put it on our healthy food?!
Is the US government the only ones that allows it on our food?
Great for other uses such as wood protection. I guess a clean processed bug secretion is safer than the toxic chemicals being put into our food.
And I thought it was vegan
🤮
This is actually fascinating! I already knew it came from bugs and was grossed out that i eat it in candy sometimes. Now I'm Even more grossed out about the unsanitary factory conditions where it's refined.
This was genuinely interesting for a video I clocked for the pretty colors lol
I used to make food grade shellac at a chemical plant in St. Louis. It is insanely expensive
Organic shellac or food grade chemical shellac?
I'm sure they spoke about shellac in band of brothers or saving private ryan because none of the generals knew wtaf shellac was lol.
@@detectiverigby3949 food grade. Even made Mars's formulation.
Expensive as in to make it or expensive product?
Its shit cheap in india, west is just hyped for everything😂
So... Shellac was used as a textile for thousands of years, and now it's being used to 'polish' our candies? Awesome.
It's mostly just tree resin.
@@LecherousLizard Okay if you think my poop is mostly corn.
@@toolbaggerspoop with undigested corn
@@LecherousLizard yes, like sea salt is just whale sperm.
You people seem to enjoy the smell of my feet.
“Relax, it’s just Shellac!” Is my new phrase from now 😂
Such amazing, rich culture & history to learn about. It's appreciated.
5:43 "This is a completely natural product!" Dude is so proud LMAO!
Well in nowadays it’s really smth that you should be proud of
@@mastachen9392 Exactly
@@Christ4Life777and also you know water resistant wood and our dinner tables
@@Christ4Life777 sorry mane your not making any sense lac coating on your wood is super underrated
I do shellac finishes on some of my rifle stocks@@Mom-pl2xb
Astounding! How on earth did someone see a product at the end of bug poop after such a laborious process. Incredible . Thank you.
Agree
Human ingenuity is endless. Some nutcases will try to tell us they're given to us by aliens or something but that shit just minimises our ancestors' achievements.
It's not bug poop. It's just the resin the insect sucks out of the tree. Just like amber.
You and I have eaten bug vomit in our lifetime. Take a guess 👀
@@celxoirealyx ya people forget what honey is, though walmart honey isn't honey anymore it's like invert sugar and other things.
Climbing that high with a full length dress. My respect!!!
Thank you for this interesting video! I can now add shellac to the interesting large scale insect products that I know of which previously only included honey, silk, and carmine!
-SLMC 🔥
They should have really made it more clear that machines are used to stretch the sheets and stretching by hand was just the traditional method.
Even with the machinery, people were still walking in the product with bare feet. Not much progress, really.
It's almost like it's not actually that dirty and people wash their feet more over there. It would be worse with shoes. The traditional method is also still clearly widely used since it makes a big flat sheet instead of shreds, so have fun with that in your mind.
It seems like the different grades are treated accordingly. The highest grade gets turned into flakes, the lowest grade into those buttons, and the middle grade intuition the rough 5 foot sheet... At least according to color and how they said it'd be used.
Shout out to the Sister Climbing the tree, Amazing Work Jazak Allah
Thanks, she is my salve.
@@krishanSharma.69.69fsays the cow worshiper 😂
A real monkey in its natural habitat
India out here making bug flavored fruit roll ups 😂
Shellac really seems like a versatile component, being used in food industry as well as the furniture industry 👀👀
This is the best video I've ever come across regarding shellac production... Its fascinating.
What’s more fascinating is how the people doing all this labor for such a lucrative business are living in such severe poverty
@@Not_convincedTotally agree. Middlemen, middlemen & more middlemen. Its the problem in every aspect of the economy, especially global trade.
I was just remarking about the unique specifics of where shellac comes from..insect excretions to manual processing & refining.
That is the case across the board for any industry
Yeah so fascinating ............processing it is more discussing than the bug itself
Feetcinating
Whimsical music and narration taking away from the drudgery of this
Didn't get through the video for exactly this reason
The shallac on citrus fruits does not "wick away water." It prevents the water in the fruit from evaporating. While the shellac itself that is used to coat citrus fruit may be safe to eat, this shellac just about always has fungicides mixed in with it.
to be clear, it does get refined to a purer state than that hand-stretched orange sheet for various uses including the food kind, and for thatpurpose it gets either heated to a high enough temperature or dissolved in solvents that would kill any germs.
for various spices and nuts also featured on this channel, that is not the case.
The racists would hate you even more now.
Now they use machines for this 6:11
It's disgusting
i think its fine all developing countries have some of this stuff going on
@@spookshow6999
@@kushpaladin Being an Indian I'd say come to India only when you have money. If you don't, street food is probably what you can afford and your gut is not strong enough for that. If you do have money, you can get world class service. And I think that's the case for most countries. Just because foreigners who spend less than $2 on food per day and make volgs about India doesn't mean that's the whole entire India.
It's like saying I won't go to the USA because I might get killed in a shooting "some of the most violent people in the world"
or won't go to South Korea because I might get filmed secretly in hotels and restrooms or I won't get on Japanese trains because I will get gropped "some of the most perverted people in the world"
or I'll get scammed and robbed in Italy, etc.
One should think before generalizing an entire population of a country that too when you have probably never even been there and possibly never will.
Starting from 0:59 - it almost sounds like that commercial on Rick and Morty about how the plumbus is made. lol
I’m just glad candies go through high temperatures before being formed.
chitin doesn't just disappear lmao
Might not want to research how food safe red dye is made in Mexico.🤣🤣🤣
Still eating bugs
I do not buy candies make in that country or anything after watching this
@@XiaoxiaoYuyu-ug3gy bad news for you, candy companies alllllll over the world use the shellac on them, not just in pajeetville
It's kind of exhausting to continually see really unique industries with workers being treated a horribly and paid next to nothing
It seems to be the constant regardless of the product being made. They don't even see a fraction of what it sells for.
Small margins. India's laws themselves are unfavourable to small businesses.
The part that got me was hearing that something that is used as a wood finish, pill gloss, candy gloss, fruit wax. The whole industry is worth $167M. That is an absolutely tiny market. An single advanced CPU fabrication facility can cost upwards to $100 billion dollars these days.
@@MINIMAN10000 And that's the answer to the above. A tiny industry with lots of producers and low yields = small profits and sales = low pay for workers. No big conspiracy.
There is an exceedingly high probability that this industry looks nothing like this.
Wow!!! Videos like these are awesome.
Great video. I've used shellac on hundreds of wood projects. I love it.
has anything changed now that you know and indians toes and teeth stretched it out during the process?
@@Polyrytmi No... why would it? It's a product I use for wood. And I don't eat jelly beans.
@@shanewalker8607then please clarify in your comment that you use it for wood works.
@@mahmoudfuad1868”on hundreds of wood projects.”
are you incapable of reading? or do you just enjoy looking like a moron?
@@mahmoudfuad1868 it says wood projects in his comment. dont correct people if you barely speak the language.
Some things are not meant to be known 😭
*only in india*
@@jueviolegrace8827 ok and. wanna talk about how wine is made or let me guess are you America?
@@heheheldk3201the thing is, it's more in india 😅❤
@@DBT1007 agreed I know it is a problem in india but calling it just an Indian problem* is problematic
It's an Indian problem
I respect what these people do in order to make shellac.
I knew about this. This and those red dye that comes from insects are always in our food and candies. My wife makes it a point to always read the ingredients labels and avoid food with insects as ingredients or dyes
I am from Jharkhand, India , where Lac is largely produced and I am an agriculture graduate who also visited LAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE, located in Ranchi, Jharkhand. I will try my best to come in this market and make it more local to global and increase local farmers income.
Like it to remind me , until I reply back on this section that I finally did what I said/commented today.
Did you do it yet?
Tell them to be way more sanitary?
it's been 15 hours, we need a progress report
And supporting the death of millions of insects for absolutely no real reason- a true human right there
Well hurry up its already been 16 full hours
People need to remember how thier wine is produced 😅
disgusting Inda
not from bugs
Remember for the really expensive wine they must have very long toe nails t0 bring out the flavor 😂
@@Cat-vs7rcI eat crickets and locust often. u r just weak
There’s a reason we don’t buy wine from India.
"This is how it's been done for many hundred years" just had to be put in to address people that will complain about it being gross
It takes alot to discover that something like this can be made into something like that.shout out to the person who discovered all this.
thats the beauty of India😊
The PEOPLE who envisaged the many uses. 😉😊
I make maple syrup and I ask myself the same question constantly
These ancient cultures that still retain what they know are the undisputed leaders of knowing how to make great produces from the parts of nature we don't think about. Most people would see these red bugs and want to spray their whole tree with insecticide, but India took what looks like crusty bird poop and turned it into the most beautiful garmets and even FOOD somehow. All from washing and cooking it a few times. After seeing how much you can polish a turd, we really restrict how much we could recycle everything cause of the smell.
@@MarioMastar We in the West do things better. We use fossil oil to make everything from plastic. It makes us fat, unfertile, and diseased, but allows us to afford buying the stuff.
if the supply is harder to raise now, then they should be asking more for their product not the other way around 😂😂
So you're telling me...every time I eat candy, I indirectly kissing those who made the Shellac?
Never ceases to amaze me how resourceful and ingenious human beings can be, and to think this is something that has been done for thousands of years!
Indians are not indigenous
Whats getting me is the way its being dragged all over the floor with dirt on it, it being in people's mouths stretching it, being walked on, and sat on and this is after is been cleaned.
Lmao
I don’t think this is the one that they use in food it would never be allowed.
I worked at a cake factory for 1 day. I never thought there would be flies all over them. Everybody cool about it too.
Don’t expect anything else from backward living people tbh! It’s just nasty as f k the way their feet and mouth just need to eve involved in everything, and I mean everything they do this with food (bread is stuck inside furnaces with saliva) they stand all over their produce with shitty feet mixing the produce like they don’t have a Harley care in the world lol.. shocking tbh
We indian didn't know that you western will use our shellak on candy and cakes. Its original purpose was to protect wood and painting 🎨🖌️.
Thats 1 way to get people to stop eating candy😂
I love the random Terraria mana crystal sound 😂
Same lmao
Never eating jelly beans again
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
WE'VE BEEN EATING FEET FLAVORED BUGS SINCE CHILDHOOD!!!!!!
I don't think we eat food made up of it. We use it in furniture tho
This can’t happen in North America jelly bean factories hopefully
Ronald Reagan never got me into it. Although, I tried it and uhh to know teeth and feet were all on it..🤮
Poop from insects makes my lemons shiny and lovely to look at, thanks for teaching us.
"I got some jelly beans. You like jelly beans?"
It amazes me how they discovered and found uses from them that we use today.
Fascinating. Thank you. Shellac is also what is used in genuine French polishing.
Well I guess it's not genuine or French.
In Kinder products too
More like Ancient Indian Polishing
What's used in disingenuous French polishing?
Ok
Dude biting into that like its a huge fruit roll up. 😂
This man standin on business. And I quit eating candy because he already did.
For the record, shellac has to be dissolved or heated to be used. Alcohol is the usual solvent and would disinfect any pathogens.
If you're freaked out by bug excretion take a hard look at vanilla "flavoring" that's in your foods. 😂
Shellac and wax are the most beautiful coatings for wood.
If you are referring to the beaver's scent glands stuff (castoreum), that rarely ends up in food these days, as there aren't nearly as many beavers as there used to be. Roughly 300 pounds of it gets used a year - a far cry from the 18,000 tons of artificial vanilla derived from petroleum.
@@EnkiduShamesh yeah, and we would need maybe hundreds of thousands (or even more) of beavers every year for them to make up enough castoreum to meet the market requirements
Also dont look up how honey is made
I'm fine with bugs what grosses me out is the FEET
@@EnkiduShameshI'll take your word on that. You're way more up to snuff on beavers than I.
I knew what shellac was but I had no clue how it was made or processed! How cool!
Bug ASS JUICE and Indian Lady Foot sweat
Yeah, everything i'd read through the years never really explained it. This was excellent!
Really cool. :) Using what nature provides.
Wow .... I never knew it would get recognised internationally......
Wow, I had zero clue that shellac came from insects, I thought maybe it was an oil byproduct if anything. Very cool.
That is pretty awesome. These are the type of videos that make the internet make sense
India is a hygienic country in the world😂😂😂
This stuff fuels a million dollar industry and the ones at the start of the chain get like 1cent an hour
I've used shellac on wood projects so I was surprised to see it mentioned on the outside of an crate of apples at the grocery store. It said may be coated with wax or shellac.
Apples are also artificially dyed as well. Completely unnecessary.
to be clear, it does get refined to a purer state than that hand-stretched orange sheet for various uses including the food kind, and for thatpurpose it gets either heated to a high enough
@@BloodwyrmWildheart imagine if people who never had a garden or haven't seen food beyond the grocery store, had to eat natural color food right off the tree or right out of the ground. Pick off little bugs, the dirt, cut away the bad parts or the bug eaten area where a bug may or may not be living.
The imperfect shapes, uneven ripening.
I used to have super old (100 yrs or more) strawberry plants opin my garden that I was gifted from the garden of a very old, very lovely woman. The berries were small and misshapen, what some would call ugly I suppose, but wow, talk about bursting with strawberry flavor! They were so sweet and tasted like.. strawberries. Yummy!
She also gave me cuttings from a wild rose bush. Same situation, flowers too small, pale, and too loosely formed but with the most amazing scent ever. 🌸
6:42 such beautiful luster and color, no wonder people were so obsessed with it.
Comment something racist or cool , that's what I came for ,
I sell lac bangles at my shop. Never knew it was made from this material
My God the hard work these people do.
Now I understand why shellac is so expensive, it's used to seal the inside of glazing rebates in timber windows if you don't paint them before you glaze; stops the oil from the putty penetrating the wood. Finished shellac chips are about $40-50/kg in Australia
Well, you’re also in Australia so everything is more expensive there shipping costs and 😂😂tarrif/import taxes