Food Additives: Pros‚ Cons‚ and Some Ideas For The Future America and indeed much of the world lives off of foodstuffs to which substances have been added to achieve some desired effect. In many ways it is the by-product of industrialization‚ rapidly expanding populations‚ technological advances‚ and changing consumer demand and expectations. It is now an undisputed fact that the foods which we eat on a daily basis are largely processed. By processed‚ in our contemporary day and age we refer
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INTRODUCTION The use of food additives is an emotional topic which continues to provoke consumer concern. Despite modern-day associations food additives have been used for centuries. Food preservation began when man first learned to safeguard food from one harvest to the next and by the salting and smoking of meat and fish. The Egyptians used colors and flavorings‚ and the Romans used saltpeter (potassium nitrate)‚ spices and colors for preservation and to improve the appearance of foods. Cooks regularly
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Food additives are substances that are added to the food. They serve as different functions such as preservation‚ flavorings and colorings‚ antioxidants‚ and stabilisers. They are added in the manufacture process intentionally or unintentionally. There are many different food additives‚ and they can be classified as natural or artificial. Most food additives are naturally occurring‚ and some may even be beneficial. The common natural food additives such as citrus acid and ascorbic acid‚ for example
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Food additives are in most of the things we eat. Most People consume food additives every day in all the foods they eat. There are many additives used that people know about and many that the average person has no knowledge about. This paper will give you a greater understanding which food additives are common and what effect it has on your health. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)‚ a food additive is any substance added to food. Legally the term means‚ "any substance the
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Why There Should be a Limit on Food Additives For many centuries people have been adding things to preserve foods. An example of this is using salt to preserve meats or adding herbs to enhance the flavor of any other type of food. In recent years‚ however‚ the amount of additives in food has dramatically increased‚ and some of the items that are being added have been questioned by scientists as well as some consumers. Some additives have been known to cause sickness and contribute to the formation
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Food additives: - A substance added to food during processing to improve colour‚ texture‚ flavour or keeping qualities. The E stands for European which means it is approved by Europe. Digestion and Absorption: - Digestion is the breakdown of food into smaller particles or individual nutrients. It is accomplished through six basic processes‚ with the help of several body fluids—particularly digestive juices that are made up of compounds such as saliva‚ mucus‚ enzymes ‚ hydrochloric acid‚ bicarbonate
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Food Additives Food Additives What are food additives? Food additives are chemicals added to food to maintain flavour or improve its taste and appearance. Some additives have been used for centuries‚ for example‚ maintaining food by pickling (with vinegar)‚ salting‚ as with bacon‚ preserving sweets or using sulphur dioxide as in some wines. With the arrival of processed foods in the second half of the 20th century‚ many more additives have been imported‚ of both natural and artificial agents
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Secret Behind Food That People Eat The number of consumers has now risen to 200‚ 000‚ 000‚ subjected everyday to a bombardment of poisons in their food and drugs while lying at the mercy of “respectable corporations” (Fuller). While the chefs and sou chefs cooked their customers’ orders‚ they thought nothing of it. They served it to their customer and while that customer ate‚ one had an allergic reaction. The customer whose name was Jorma Takala suffers from hyperactivity. Therefore‚ additives can be dangerous
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142 Nov.8th‚2014 The Abuse Of The Food Additives In recent years‚ food additives have been widely used in the food industry‚ such as preservative‚ antioxidant‚ welling agent and so on. But the abuse of these additives has many negative impacts on our health. Some kinds of additives can cause acute or chronic poisoning. In 1998‚because of the abuse of flavoring essence‚ there was a large-scale lard poisoning accident in Jiangxi Province. Even worse‚ some additives‚ such as artificial sweetener may
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avoid consuming food with artificial additives? Communication 103-816 December 9‚ 2013 I. INTRODUCTION: Have you ever looked at the back of food packages and wondered what those long named ingredients listed are or what they even mean? Personally‚ most of the time I do not even know what half of those big words are or sometimes I do not even bother to look at the ingredients list. Well‚ all these big‚ complicated words are fancy names for the additives that the manufactures
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