Top 10 Scariest Food Additives

[dunkin2012]

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Top 10 Scariest Food Additives

By David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding

Jul 01, 2011

There was a time when "fruit flavored" and "cheese flavored" meant "made with real fruit" and "made with real cheese." Today? It's artificial everything. Most of the food at your local supermarket is no more authentic than Snooki's tan. Our fruit comes packaged in Loops, our cheese delivered via Whiz. Sure, it's edible, but there's no way your great grandparents would recognize this junk as food.

The problem with additives runs deep. The FDA currently maintains a list of ingredients called Everything Added to Food in the United States (EAFUS), which features more than 3,000 items and counting. Thankfully, most EAFUS ingredients are benign, but a few of them do have potentially harmful effects. Why they're legal is a mystery to us. Some of them might be backed by powerful lobby groups, while others probably survive simply because some guy at the FDA has too much paperwork on his desk and hasn't made time to adequately review the data.

Below are 10 of the most dubious ingredients hiding in your food, compliments of Eat This, Not That! 2011. Even if you're not convinced of their danger, you have to admit this: The more filler ingredients you cut from your diet, the more space you have for wholesome, nutritious foods.

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[Ulysses G.]

There was a time when "fruit flavored" and "cheese flavored" meant "made with real fruit" and "made with real cheese."

Maybe in 1910, but pretty much not in my lifetime.

[mjnaus]

Thank god for all those local markets everywhere in Thailand!

[wolf5370]

Many of these sort of things - and most of the animal studies I have seen on them - are based on massive amounts digested (same as eating literally tons of food in a day to achieve the levels required). I say bring back arsenic toothpaste and mercury face powder!

Edited July 8, 2011 by wolf5370

[Samuian]

Everyone has a choice, who would eat "Pizza", a soft dough base with everything on it that usually ISN'T on a Pizza with a sausage or "cheese" crust which doesnt' resemble sausage or cheese as known and top it with thousand island dressing and chillie powder?

Everyone has a choice, I eat only what I still can identify and refer to it's origin, NO microwave or food that is produced IN a plant, or that doesn't come FROM a plant!

Edited July 8, 2011 by Samuian

[craigt3365]

Let's move this over to the pub as it's not Thailand related. :jap:

[thatguy]

Your furniture polish has real lemon oil, your lemonade is artificially flavored. Go figure.

[remiss]

"ok" - something is going to kill me, but I'm pretty sure it won't be the fruit flavored candy..