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Article: EN rates 12 common food additives as safe or sorry ingredients.
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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A look at the ingredient lists on some foods and beverages might have you wishing you remembered more of high-school chemistry. It might help you understand just what all those multi-syllabic substances are. But a bigger problem than being tongue-tied is not knowing which ingredients are worrisome and which are not. After all, not all industrial-sounding substances are nefarious. Remember, nature is made up of chemicals; salt is sodium chloride, vitamin C is ascorbic acid.
There are more than 3,000 substances approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in foods for a variety of purposes, such as slowing spoilage, combating food contamination and ...