Are You Putting Beaver Anus in Your Mouth Every Day? The Shocking Truth

Yes, it’s true.

Beaver butt

Millions of people across the globe are eating “beaver butt” and don’t even know that they’re consuming such a substance.

It’s called “castoreum,” and it’s emitted from the castor sacs within the animal’s anus. For a beaver, this slimy brown substance is used to mark its territory, but for us humans, it’s used as an additive that is often labeled as “natural flavoring” in the foods we eat – vanilla, strawberry and raspberry probably being the most common.


The question that many people put forth would have to be “who in their right mind actually made this odd discovery?”


Is it natural?
Sure it’s natural, but does “being natural” make it right to use or consume? Many disgusting substances are considered “natural,” yet eating them may not be the best idea.

The act of labeling something so vulgar and disgusting as “natural flavoring,” should be illegal in many people’s eyes, but the FDA views it all in a different light. Having the anal secretions from a beaver take the place of a strawberry in something like strawberry ice cream hardly seems like an efficient process. Why go through the process of harvesting “anal secretions” when a strawberry is much easier to pick?

It hardly seems like a better option

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