There are all sorts of nasty food additives to avoid these days. Here are 10 you really should avoid.
ALL OF THE SOURCES ARE LINKED AS BLUE HYPER LINKS IN THE DESCRIPTION BELOW:
1. Monosodium Glutamate (msg / e621) - This additive can seriously damage your health. It's widely used in processed foods.
2. High fructose corn syrup or glucose / fructose - This is a common sweetener found in sodas and fruit flavored drinks. As use of high-fructose corn syrup has increased, so have levels of obesity and related health problems.
3. Artificial sweeteners - there are no studies on the effects of these sweeteners and the possible long-term consequences of people consuming them.
4. Common food dyes - In Europe, Dyed Foods Get Warning - But in the US the FDA has deemed them not worthy of a warning.
5. Trans fat - Trans fat in food: As bad as it gets / Scientists' warning: A long-awaited federal report on trans fat, a processed fat pervasive in cookies, crackers and fast food, finds there is no safe level.
6. BHA and BHT - antioxidants BHA (E320) and BHT (E321) have been identified as a possible cause of local skin reactions.
7. Sodium Nitrate / Sodium Nitrite - Sodium nitrite is a dangerous, cancer-causing ingredient that has no place in the human food supply. The USDA actually tried to ban sodium nitrite in the 1970's but unfortunately was stopped by the meat processing industry, which relies on the ingredient as a color fixer to make foods look more visually appealing.
8. Potassium Bromate - Potassium bromate is in flour used strengthen dough - California must carry a warning label if potassium bromate has been used. Find out why.
9. Sodium Sulfite (e221) - WARNING! HARMFUL IF SWALLOWED. MAY CAUSE ALLERGIC REACTION AND BREATHING. DIFFICULTIES
10. Sulfer Dioxide (e220) - Public Warning by the Gov -http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/envprograms/airquality/brochures/flinflon.html
You do have to ask yourself... If these chemicals are poisonous why are they putting them in our food? If it's ok with everyone else i'd prefer to not have foreign chemicals in my food. I don't understand when or how it became acceptable to start putting synthetic chemicals in food for any excuse. ? :(
Its almost accurate, but as someone with an allergy to fructose, You can't tell people to avoid Glucose/Fructose. A mix of 50% glucose and 50% fructose is common table sugar. Glucose is not dangerous, and helps the body deal with Fructose. It's Fructose in quantities that outweigh glucose that causes the problems.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot carboxymethylcellulose a cancer causing food stabilizer.
ReplyDeleteWell, that pretty much eliminates all foods except raw meats, fruits and raw vegetables, which is what the human diet is supposed to consist of in the first place.
ReplyDeleteWell that pretty much eliminates all foods except raw meats, fruits and raw vegetables, which is what the human diet is supposed to consist of to begin with.
ReplyDeleteIf they didnt keep us sick then the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance companies and the doctors wouldnt make all that big money. Sad but true. In this "great" country it will always come down to money and will never be about the better good of the people.
ReplyDeleteyou forgot the brominated vegitable oils which are flame retardants found in quite a few citrus drinks, like mt dew and most orange flavored sodas, as well as i cant beleive it's not butter, especially the spray, which when applied to a 2X4, the wood will NOT burn in that area, and that stuff is one molecule away from being plastic anyways. anyone thinks i dont know what i am talking about, research this stuff.
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