If you see any of following ingredients on the food label, skip it; put it back on the shelf! It is hard when starting out to 'eat better'. Your world has seems to have turned upside down. Hopefully, this list I found can make it a little easier. I have actually printed out several pages that my hubby & I carry with us when we go to the store.
A good rule of thumb is... If you can NOT pronounce it then don't buy it.
A good rule of thumb is... If you can NOT pronounce it then don't buy it.
A list of 9 food additives to AVOID...
1. Potassium benzoate:
When you crave something sweet, bubbly, and perhaps caffeinated but don't want
the calories, it can be tempting to crack open a diet soda-but resist that
urge. "Sodium and potassium benzoate are added to some diet soft drinks
and fruit drinks," Leslie Bonci, R.D., says. "They can form benzene,
which is a carcinogen when combined with vitamin C, the absorbic acid in juice
or soda."
In addition, research shows that there may be a link between
diet cola consumption and weight gain, as well as cancer and diabetes, so if
you're a diet soda junkie, try to cut back. Our five tips will help you kick
the habit.
If you don't drink soda, you're not safe, though: Potassium
benzoate often shows up in seemingly innocuous foods such as apple cider,
low-fat salad dressings, syrups, jams, olives, and pickles, so read labels.
2. Corn: Don't panic-you can enjoy your corn on
the cob
if it's non-GMO; we're talking about modified cornstarch, dextrose,
maltodextrin, and corn oil here. All are high in omega-6 fatty acids,
which can promote inflammation, cancer, and heart disease. While your body
needs both omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids to perform at its full potential,
most experts recommend an omega-6 to omega-3 ratio of 1:1-currently most
Americans consume about 15 times more omega-6 acids than omega-3s, according to
Valerie Berkowitz, R.D., director of nutrition at the Center for Balanced
Health and author of The Stubborn Fat Fix.
Unfortunately corn products and other foods high in omega-6s
are hard to avoid. "Because they're cheap, they're in almost every product
you buy, and therefore you eat more of them," Berkowitz says. However you
can cut back by gradually phasing out foods such as margarine, vegetable oil,
and soy, and, while you're at it, boost your omega-3 intake by adding salmon,
grass-fed beef, halibut, chia seeds, and walnuts to your diet.
3. Soy: Although it's often lauded as a healthy, cholesterol-free,
cheap, low-fat protein alternative to meat, not all soy is healthy for you,
Berkowitz says. "Soy protein, soy isolate, and soy oil are present in
about 60% of the foods on the market and have been shown to impair fertility
and affect estrogen in women, lower sex drive, and trigger puberty early in
children," she says. "Soy can also add to the imbalance between omega-6
and omega-3 fatty acids."
The main problem is that 92% of soy products in the U.S. are
genetically modified, Berkowitz adds. "If you really can't avoid it or are
considering going vegetarian or vegan, try to stick with organic soy and don't
eat more than three servings a week." She recommends beans, nuts, or
sprouted grains such as quinoa or millet as good vegan protein sources, as well
as cage-free eggs for vegetarians.
4. BHA: Any processed food that has a long shelf
life is often filled with butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), says dietitian Julie
Upton. "This is added to foods to prevent fats from spoiling."
Although it has GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status
by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it's been shown to cause cancer in
animals, raising concerns among the healthy living community that the additive
could be carcinogenic to humans as well. Upton recommends minimizing the amount
of oil-containing processed foods you eat because they're bound to include BHA.
5. Fractionated palm kernel oil:
Fractionating oil is a process most often used on palm and palm kernel oil that
involves heating the oil, then cooling it quickly so that it breaks up into
fractions (hence the name). The fractioned oil is then passed through a
filtration process, during which it's separated into liquid palm olein and
solid palm stearin components. Don't worry if you're confused (we are too!).
The key thing is that the filtration process separates out most of the liquid
part of the oil, leaving a high concentration of solid fat behind.
Fractionated oil is great in preventing the chocolate
coating on candy and protein bars from melting, but unfortunately it's not so
kind to your waistline or health: "Palm kernel oil is about 80 % saturated
fat and leads to increased LDL (bad) cholesterol," says Christine
Gerbstadt, M.D., R.D., a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and
Dietetics. So avoid both fractionated and regular palm kernel oil.
Palm fruit oil, however, has less saturated fat and some
vitamin E (a player in maintaining a healthy immune system and metabolism), so
it's better for you, but still not as healthy extra-virgin olive, canola,
avocado, or almond oils, all of which are made up of a majority of mono- or
polyunsaturated fats and have medium or high smoke points, making them safe to
cook with.
6. MSG: Made famous by the "Chinese
restaurant syndrome," MSG is a flavor enhancer commonly added to Chinese
foods and products, as well as canned vegetables and soups and some meats. It's
officially recognized as a food that's safe to eat in small quantities, but
because a proportion of the population experiences an adverse reaction,
including migraines and increased appetite, it remains controversial within the
healthy living community. For this reason, it's required to be on the label
whenever it's added to a food, and it's not allowed to be added to infant
formula or foods for toddlers.
7. Artificial flavorings: offer absolutely no nutritional value and are
the markers of processed food, says registered dietitian and author Dawn
Jackson Blatner. They show up in almost everything today, including bread,
cereals, flavored yogurt, soups mixes, and cocktail mixers, so they can be hard
to avoid.
Your best bet is to go for the real thing whenever possible.
"For example, if you want to have whipped cream, have a little bit of real
whipped cream, not whipped topping, which is also full of hydrogenated oils and
high fructose corn syrup, or instead of spray butter, cook with a little bit of
real butter or olive oil," Jackson Blatner says.
8. Sodium nitrites and nitrates:
"Nitrites are added to meats such as hot dogs, bacon, and deli meats as a
preservative, but they may form nitrosamines when in the body, which may
promote cancer growth," Dr. Gerbstadt says. In fact, a 2009 study found
that kids who ate cured meats or fish more than once a week had a 74 % greater
risk of leukemia than children who rarely ate those foods.
Try to limit your consumption of cured meats to no more than
three per week and avoid hot dogs entirely if you can: A 2011 study found that
even organic and "natural" hot dogs contained anywhere from one-half
to 10 times the amount of nitrites than conventional hot dogs did, and that
natural bacon had between a third and three times the amount of nitrites of
conventional bacon. But don't worry about the nitrates and nitrites found
naturally in vegetables-the antioxidants in veggies inhibit them from
converting into harmful compounds.
9. Enriched wheat: Whole
grains can be part of a healthy diet, providing essential nutrients such as
fiber and minerals, but unless that
package of bread you're holding has "100 percent whole-grain" listed
as the first (and ideally only) ingredient, it probably only includes a few
whole grains mixed in with enriched wheat flour as the main ingredient.
"The key word to watch out for is 'enrichment',"
Dr. Gerbstadt says. "The means niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, folic acid,
and iron are added after these and other key nutrients are stripped out in the
first place during the refining process, whether it's wheat, rye, or other
grains."
While enriched unbleached wheat flour beats out refined
white flour nutritionally speaking, the benefits are minimal since the germ and
bran of them are still stripped out during the refining process. Essentially,
enriched flour is refined flour that has had a few nutrients re-added to it,
but not enough to make it worth the calories. For example, two slices of white
bread has about 150 calories and 1.5 grams of fiber, while the same serving of
whole-wheat bread provides about 14 calories and 4 grams of fiber, plus more of
pretty much every vitamin and mineral found in bread. So go for the grain, the whole
grain.
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Another list that recently came out includes '100 Dangerous Foods'. Scary, but these additives are in many of food that we as Americans consume.
http://preventdisease.com/news/13/051213_100-Dangerous-Food-Additives-Causing-ADHD-Asthma-Cancer.shtml
Another list that recently came out includes '100 Dangerous Foods'. Scary, but these additives are in many of food that we as Americans consume.
| TABLE OF DANGEROUS FOOD ADDITIVES | |||||
Additive Number | Name of Food Additive | ADHD | Asthma | Cancer | |
| FD&C Yellow No. 5 102 & E102 | Tartrazine (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 104 & E104 | Quinoline Yellow (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 107 & E107 | Yellow 2G (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| FD&C Yellow No. 6 110 & E110 | Sunset Yellow (Yellow food color #6) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 120 & E120 | Carmines, Cochineal (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | - | |
| 122 & E122 | Azorubine, Carmoisine (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 123 & E123 | Amaranth (Red food color #2) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 124 & E124 | Ponceau, Brilliant Scarlet (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| FD&C Red No. 3 127 & E127 | Erythrosine (Red food color #2) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| E128 | Red 2G (Red food color) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| FD&C Red No. 40 129 & E129 | Allura Red AC (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| E131 | Patent Blue (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| FD&C Blue No. 2 132 & E132 | Indigotine, Indigo Carmine (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| FD&C Blue No. 1 133 & E133 | Brilliant Blue (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 142 & E142 | Acid Brilliant Green, Green S, Food Green (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | - | |
| 143 | Fast Green (food color) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 150 & E150 | Caramel (food color) | ✓ | - | - | |
| 151 & E151 | Activated Vegetable Carbons, Brilliant Black (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 154 | Food Brown, Kipper Brown, Brown FK (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 155 & E155 | Chocolate Brown HT, Brown HT (food color) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 160b & E160b | Bixin, Norbixin, Annatto Extracts (yellow, red to brown natural colors) | ✓ | ✓ | - | |
| E171 | Titanium Dioxide, TiO2 (to give foods an opaque color) more on Titanium Dioxide in comments below ↴ | ? | ? | ? | |
| E173 | Aluminium (preservatives) | - | - | ✓ | |
| E180 | Latol Rubine, Pigment Rubine (preservatives) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 200 & E200-203 | Potassium & Calcium Sorbates ,Sorbic Acid (preservatives) | ✓ | ✓ | - | |
| 210 & E210 | Benzoic Acid (preservatives) | ✓ | ✓ | - | |
| 211 & E211 | Sodium Benzoate (preservatives) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 212 & E212 | Potassium Benzoate (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 213 & E213 | Calcium Benzoate (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| E214 | Ethyl Para Hydroxybenzonate (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| E215 | Sodium Ethyl Para Hydroxybenzonate (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 216 & E216 | Propyl P Hydroxybenzonate, Propylparaben (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| E217 | Sodium Propyl P Hydroxybenzonate (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 220 & E220 | Sulphur Dioxide also Sulfur dioxide (preservatives) | ✓ | ✓ | - | |
| 221 & E221 | Sodium Sulfite or Sodium Sulphite (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 222 | Sodium Bisulfite or Sodium Bisulphite (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 223 & E223 | Sodium Metabisulfite or Sodium Metabisulphite (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 224 & E224 | Potassium Metabisulphite or Potassium Metabisulfite (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 225 & E225 | Potassium Sulfite or Potassium Sulphite (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| E226 | Calcium Sulfite or Calcium Sulphite (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| E227 | Calcium Hydrogen Sulphite or Calcium Hydrogen Sulfite (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| E228 | Potassium Bisulfite, Potassium Hydrogen Sulfite or Potassium Bisulphite, Potassium Hydrogen Sulphite (preservatives) | ✓ | ✓ | - | |
| E230 | Diphenyl, Biphenyl (preservatives) | - | - | ✓ | |
| E231 | Orthophenyl Phenol (preservatives) | - | - | ✓ | |
| E236 | Formic Acid (preservative) | - | - | ✓ | |
| E239 | Hexamine, Hexamethylene Tetramine (preservatives) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 249 & E249 | Potassium Nitrate (preservative) | - | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 250 & E250 | Sodium Nitrite (preservative) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 251 & E251 | Sodium Nitrate (preservative) | ✓ | - | ✓ | |
| 252 & E252 | Potassium Nitrate (preservative) | ✓ | - | ✓ | |
| 260 & E260 | Acetic Acid, Glacial (preservatives) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 280 to 283 | Calcium or Potassium or Sodium Propionates, Propionic Acid (preservatives) | ✓ | ✓ | - | |
| 310 & E310 | Propyl Gallate (Synthetic Antioxidant) | - | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 311 & E311 | Octyl Gallate (Synthetic Antioxidant) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 312 & E312 | Dodecyl Gallate (Synthetic Antioxidant) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 319 & E319 | TBHQ, Tert Butylhydroquinone (Synthetic Antioxidants) | ✓ | ✓ | - | |
| 320 & E320 | Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA) (Synthetic Antioxidants) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 321 & E321 | Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT) or Butylhydroxytoluene (Synthetic Antioxidants) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 330 & E330 | Citric Acid (NOT DANGEROUS if naturally occurring e330 & 330 citric acid additive – but other can contain sulfites and mold.) | - | - | - | |
| 407 & E407 | Carrageenan (Thickening & Stabilizing Agent) | - | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 413 & E413 | Tragacanth (thickener & Emulsifier) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 414 & E414 | Acacia Gum (Food Stabilizer) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 416 | Karaya Gum (Laxative, Food Thickener & Emulsifier) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 421 & E421 | Mannitol (Artificial Sweetener) | ✓ | - | - | |
| 430 | Polyxyethylene Stearate (Emulsifier) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 431 | Polyxyl Stearate (Emulsifier) | - | - | ✓ | |
| E432 – E435 | Polyoxyethylene Sorbitan Monostearate (Emulsifiers Gelling Stabilisers Thickeners Agents) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 433 – 436 | Polysorbate (Emulsifiers) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 441 & E441 | Gelatine (Food Gelling Agent) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 466 | Sodium CarboxyMethyl Cellulose | - | - | ✓ | |
| 507 & E507 | Hydrochloric Acid (Hydrolyzing Enhancer & Gelatin Production) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 518 & E518 | Magnesium Sulphate (Tofu Coagulant) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 536 & E536 | Potassium Ferrocyanide (Anti Caking Agent) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 553 & E553 & E553b | Talc (Anti Caking, Filling, Softener, Agent) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 620 – 625 | MSG Monosodium Glutamate, Glutamic Acid, all Glutamates (Flavour Enhancers) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 627 & E627 | Disodium Guanylate (Flavour Enhancers) | ✓ | ✓ | - | |
| 631 & E631 | Disodium Inosinate 5 (Flavour Enhancers) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 635 & E635 | Disodium Ribonucleotides 5 (Flavour Enhancers) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 903 & E903 | Camauba Wax (used in Chewing Gums, Coating and Glazing Agents) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 905 & 905 a,b,c | Paraffin and Vaseline, White Mineral Oil (Solvents, Coating and Glazing, Anti Foaming Agents, Lubricant in Chewing Gums) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 924 & E924 | Potassium Bromate (Agent used in Bleaching Flour) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 925 & E925 | Chlorine (Agent used in Bleaching Flour, Bread Enhancer and Stabiliser) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 926 | Chlorine Dioxide (Bleaching Flour and Preservative Agent) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 928 & E928 | Benzoyl Peroxide (Bleaching Flour and Bread enhancer Agent) | - | ✓ | - | |
| 950 & E950 | Potassium Acesulphame (Sweetener) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 951 | Aspartame (Sweetener) | ✓ | ✓ | - | |
| 952 & E952 | Cyclamate and Cyclamic Acid (Sweeteners) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 954 & E954 | Saccharine (Sweetener) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 1202 & E1202 | Insoluble Polyvinylpyrrolidone Insoluble (Stabiliser and Clarifying Agent added to Wine, Beer, Pharmaceuticals) | - | - | ✓ | |
| 1403 | Bleached Starch (Thickener and Stabiliser) | - | ✓ | - | |
http://preventdisease.com/news/13/051213_100-Dangerous-Food-Additives-Causing-ADHD-Asthma-Cancer.shtml
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