Most chemicals added to foods are not considered poisons by the FDA or food producers. This however does not suggest they are healthy or do not have side effects. Synthetic Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), Carrageenan, Sodium Benzote, Aspartame and a number of food colorings can cause severe headaches, behavioral issues and more serious long term complications. Some of these chemicals can override the brain barrier and kill brain cells. Others impact the liver or kidney's. Even high fructose corn syrup has side effects that can be considered dangerous along with hydrogenated oils like Crisco.
The close ties between the food producers and the FDA mean food producers get what they want including labeling standards that hide products like synthetic MSG.
If you don't like chemicals in your food, fight back, buy from safe food sources, cook from scratch and take profits from your purchases away from them. Learn more about the chemical dangers and how to avoid them. We cannot rely on the FDA or anyone else to protect us.
Sadly the FDA is more about economics and commerce than the public health. Listing the poisons on labels and publicly announcing the dangers is counter productive to sales. Some of these chemicals drive you to want more of the same product, some make you think food tastes better than it really does or is creamier. Some are there to kill off bacteria because the processing plants are not as clean as they should be!
If you are concerned enough to ask the question, help us fight against the problem. Become a voice on the internet and with family and friends and be a smart buyer at the store.
A series of unqualified health claims on food labels
MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a food additive added for its flavour enhancing proporties. Due to a number of people displaying a sensitivity to it, the goverment decided that it had to be included in the ingredients list on food labels.
Food labels can be used to help a person evaluate his or her dietary choices. Labels today must list things like calories, fat, trans fat, sodium, carbohydrates, and nutrients in the food. Reading labels is a good way for consumers to be able to track these and other things, leading them to make healthier food choices.
No, it list the energy content in calories, which is the amount of energy to raise a quantity of water by a certain temperature.
You can go and get a list of calories in food off of websites if you are dining at a fast food company or you can read the labels. It is required by law to have the listings of calories on all food.
In January 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began requiring all food manufacturers to list the amount of trans fats in foods along with other nutritional information.
Velveeta cheese does not have any wheat. Kraft labels their food and does not list wheat, rye, or barley as an ingredient.
A & C Vitamin must be listed on food labels. Companies can voluntarily list other vitamins that are present in the food on the labels as well. When vitamins are added to the food, or when a vitamin claim is made, those nutrients must be listed on the label.
We can know the calories we eat by looking at the labels of the food we usually buy from the groceries.There are so many websites that you can click for you to print the list of food calories you need online.
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Fibre in food is indigestible plant material, if you read food labels they will usually list the amount of fibre content. Don't buy any of these buy the food that comes in a natural wrapper. Fresh fruit and vegetables!
Depends what country you are from. In some countries (e.g. my country of New Zealand), the food labels show kilojoules of energy. In America, commonly calories is the measure of choice.You can convert to and from joules and calories:1 joule = 0.239005736 caloriesPersonally, I like using calories, so I divide the kJ's shown on the food label, by 4 (which is an approximate figure) to get the number of kCals.