Top 10 Scariest Food Additives

I totally agree that these articles can be misleading and cause panic..... I just wanted to share the article because it was interesting and I know that many rely on these diet foods to help them stay within their calorie goals. Yes, everything in moderation is fine. But, always good to be aware of these things and not overload on them.

Just good info to have when you are selecting food... if I have the option to choose a product that doesn't have these things, then I will. Like, Blue Diamond Almond milk has the Carageenan in it. But, there are many brands that don't; so, I'll choose ones that don't!

With the brands of food that don't have that specific chemical in it, they will most likely have other additives in them that someone won't like. All mass created foods have additives. And even so, do we need to start carrying around lists to the grocery stores of what additives we find the most problem with and inspect every label or every brand to see which one has it and which one doesn't.

And someone even eating their veggies needs to be careful with chemicals, if they are thoroughly concerned with all of this, for pesticides and other chemicals that come into contact with their food.

To each, their own, but after awhile, it all seems pointless.

I was expecting Aspartame to be on the list... I always hear people say bad things about that one.

I find articles like this alarmist and misleading. They quote all of the studies about how these additives cause cancer, but they don't comment on the validity of the study. Many such studies pump lab rats full of more of these additives than most humans would eat in a lifetime - of course it's going to cause negative effects! Just because something is used in a product like fertilizer or window cleaner doesn't mean it's toxic. Water is an ingredient in almost all toxic household products - doesn't mean it's bad for us!

Yes, I'm all for eating cleaner and avoiding processed food where practical, but I'm of the opinion that as long as most of my food is simple/homemade/non-processed/additive free (which isn't hard to do) then the other little bit doesn't matter. I'm not giving up my wine! :drinker:

QFT. Many people like to jump on pubmed and read the abstract, then copy/pasta it as "evidence" without even reading the rest of the paper. Always, always read the FULL paper. Look at the testing variables (dosage administered, controls, etc.) and then consider the model organism being used. Rats only give us an idea on what "could" happen, but it does not directly translate to humans the same way. Alarmism is exactly what this article is and designed to scare people, when it should instead just give them basic info to think about and consider when they make food choices.

There are things to be afraid of... like oranges.

If an orange had a real composition label, it would say this...

Water, glucose, fructose, galactose, phenolic glycosides, 6-deoxyaldohexoses (fuctose and rhamnose), saccharose, galacturonans, (1-4) linked D-galactopiranuronic acid, pectin, pectinic acids, polygalacturonic acids, pectinestarase, Citric Acid, L-Malic Acid, D-Isocitric Acid, Oxalic Acid, Succinic Acid, Malonic Acid, Quinic Acid, Tartaric Acid, Adipic Acid, 2-ketogluratic Acid, praline, asparagines, aspartic acid, serine, glutamic acid and arginine. oxidoreductases, transferases, hydrolases and lyases, isomerases and ligases, glucosilglucerides, Carotenoids, tetraterpenes, limonin, aslimonoic acid A-ring lactone, neohesperidosides, flavones (3-hydroxyflavanones, 3-dydroxyflavones, O-glycosyl, aglycones C-glycosylflavones, Anthocyanins, (hesperidin, naringin, poncirin, neoheriocitrin, neohesperidin, rhoifolin, rutin, diosmin, sinensetin, auranetin, tangeritin, hydroxyethylrutinosideres, nobiletin cyanidin-3-glucoside, cyanidina-3.5-diglucoside, peonidin-5-glucoside, delphinidin-3-glucoside, petunidin-3-glucoside, Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), Pholacine, Vitamin B6, Thiamine, Riboflavin, Biotin, Pantotenic acid, Vitamin A.

EVERYTHING IS COMPOSED OF CHEMICALS.