Food Additives

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Organic, non-organic.
GMO, non-GMO.

Some packaged foods*, whether you consider them healthy or deadly, contain additives. Here's a look at some of the most common bottom-of-the-list ingredients found in food, with a nice visual layout for Doritos, Orowheat, and Campbell's Tomato Soup before they're combined, blended, heated, a squeezed out the nozzle of a machine.

Makes you want to start a garden.

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/these-are-the-...1732603286

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[shockwave rider]

"All of those foods, whether you consider them healthy or deadly, contain additives."

The food I eat contains ingredients, not additives, but we still cook from scratch. The few processed foods we buy usually have short ingredient lists and nothing I can't pronounce. Did you mean to say "many foods" instead of "all"? A lot of people don't eat highly processed foods full of "additives" and preservatives.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Did you mean to say "many foods" instead of "all"?

I was using hyperbole.
I wanted to make the point that people often focus so much on organic or GMO that they don't notice what else is in their food.

But I will change my OP to "some."

Years ago, I knew a young couple who started an organic grain business. They expanded into chips, and other snack items over the objections of the husband, who wanted to sell real food without ingredients or additives. But the wife realized they made almost all of their money from the organic snacks. They divorced, she took the snack side of the business (produced in a mega-corp factory that shut down just long enough to switch from their mega-corp chip brand production to the organic chip ingredient batch) and he kept the 50# bag of organic grain part. It's one of the largest organic brands on the shelves now, probably bought out by the mega-corp that made the chips in the first place. GMO corn, or non-GMO corn was the least unhealthy aspect of the product.

[shockwave rider]

All food has ingredients, ingredients by definition are what the food is made of, sometimes (often) ingredients are chemical additives, artificial flavoring and colors, and preservatives. The cheaper the food the more additives as a rule, for some reason people end up paying a premium for food that has a simple 3 or 4 ingredient list like potatoes, salt, olive oil instead of a long list of chemicals like the cheap version of the same product.

[kalakoa]

people often focus so much on organic or GMO that they don't notice what else is in their food

I only wish "reading the label" actually helped -- there's no legal requirement to disclose GMO ingredients, and the "bottom half" practically requires a chemistry degree to decipher... it's possible to "pay attention" and still have no idea what's actually in the food.

[shockwave rider]

I use a simple formula: if it has more than a handful of ingredients, if any of the ingredients are industrial chemicals (TSP for example), if the ingredient begins with the word artificial, or if I can't pronounce the names of the ingredients, I don't buy it.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

or if I can't pronounce the names of the ingredients

That's why I never travel to foreign countries. I'd starve. I'd even go hungry in England. "Fish & Chips? The chips could be wood chips, better not. Toad in the Hole? Spotted Dick? No thank you."

[Clayjacks]

Try pronouncing "Snacks From a Convenience Store." I'm sure there's some Latin in there somewhere.
Now make every possible effort to avoid purchasing/consuming that food.
Great step toward understanding modern gastronomic chemistry!

[Rob Tucker]

And just how is this topic Hawaii or Puna related?

Tell me soon or take it to the Food Channel.

Assume the best and ask questions.

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[EightFingers]

Several misspelled words on that site.......
It's not "Orowheat", it's "Oroweat"....