Eating processed foods, junk foods, or fast foods is a virtual guarantee that you are consuming any number of toxic, carcinogens, or questionable food additives. There are more than 10,000 possible food additives that are allowed into the foods we consume, not counting the ones that are frequently added to the package itself.
Additives are used for various reasons; to stop fats or oils from going rancid, to stop fruit from browning, to “enrich” the food with synthetic vitamins, or to greatly slow down the spoiling rate. They can also be added to improve the flavor or texture, and especially the appearance.
Although almost all of these ingredients have been linked in numerous studies to health concerns or even shown to be downright dangerous, they are approved because these Big Food companies conduct their own research and they tell the FDA or the USDA that these additives are “Generally Recognized as Safe,” a.k.a. GRAS. The way it works is, if Big Food tells that FDA that this new additive they going to put in food is GRAS, then the FDA gives it immediate approval.
Words like “improved”, “enriched” foods have actually been stripped of their original nutrients, so the manufacturers add a few synthetic vitamins and minerals to artificially give it some nutritional value.The final products have fewer nutrients than the starting product and they are not well received by our bodies as they would have been in their natural state.
Preservatives allow food to sit on shelves for a very long time, but while it may be beneficial for the corporation and their profit quotas, they are very bad for your health.
There are many chemicals to change the texture of food and instant mashed potatoes is even lighter and fluffier than anything you could ever make at home, but it also has no nutritional value left in it, just bad carbs and fats (usually from an animal source).
Artificial flavors exist for the sole purpose of adding something extra to the taste of denatured foods which after they have been so processed would not otherwise taste anything like expected: Fake lemon flavor, fake butter flavor, fake berry flavor, to make up for the fact that none of these ingredients were actually used to make the item.
Food companies pick oranges that are green and unripe, and simply add some dyes to make them look like what you wish them to look like. Dyes and salts are added to meat, colorants, artificial flavors, considerable amounts of unhealthy sugars and thickenersare tampering with traditionally healthy foods, staples in a child’s diet, such as yogurt and juice drinks.
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What a great read! I don’t buy your typical bread anymore. You can leave it on your counter for weeks and it won’t mold~Hello!!!