From the article: Food Additives
There are many types of processed foods and most of them contain some type of food additives to make them prettier, tastier or to help them last longer. At the grocery store, you'll see aisles of convenient foods ranging from cartons of milk to jugs of orange juice to greasy snack chips to box mixes of macaroni and cheese (and everything else in between).
Food additives make our lives more convenient, but not everyone likes them. Do you prefer to avoid food additives like MSG and artificial sweeteners or do you think the they're a good deal? Maybe you just can't imagine eating cheesy puffs that aren't neon orange. Share Your Story
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- I do my best to avoid food additives of all types. There's a great book called The Consumer's Guide to Food Additives by Ruth Winter, and it lists the symptoms and side effects of many additives. I always used to get asthma from orange soda pop and learned that yellow#5 can trigger an attack in asthmatics. With the prevalence of childhood asthma, it's something parents should know about. I have bad reactions to many additives. Personally, I don't think we need to use preservatives to keep our food on the shelf for 2 years....no one keeps food for that long! Using toxic wood preservatives in tortilla chips is just too outrageous! I now buy natural foods with no chemical additives and they taste and look just wonderful. Eating 'clean' is the best way to avoid over-exposure to some unnecessary toxins in this chemical-laden world.
- —Blissfulbeader
But They Are Fun
- I'm a teenager now, but when I was younger I loved to eat brightly colored foods. I didn't know they were bad for me, but now I don't think I want to eat foods that have artificial colors in them.
- —Guest Kayla
Interesting
- You bring up a good point. Mentally we expect food to look a certian way. Marketing plays a big part in this because they want to make food look more attractive, even if that means putting unnecessary additives in it.
- —blenderwizard
