Top 20 Food Additives to Avoid : Avoiding Non-Nutritional Foods
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Top 20 Food Additives to Avoid : Avioding Non-Nutritional Foods\n\nAllura Red AC - Food coloring in snacks, sauces, preserves, soups, wine, cider, etc.\nAvoid if you suffer from asthma, rhinitis (including hayfever), or urticaria (hives).\n\nAmaranth - Food coloring in wine, spirits, fish roe.\nBanned in the U.S. Avoid if you suffer from asthma, rhinitis, urticaria or other allergies.\n\n\nAspartame - Sweetener in snacks, sweets, alcohol, desserts, ~diet" foods\nMay affect people with PKU (phenylketonuria). Recent reports show possibility of headaches, blindness, and seizures with long-term high doses of aspartame.\n\n\nBenzoic acid - Preservative in many foods, including drinks, low sugar products, cereals, meat products.\nCan temporarily inhibit the function of digestive enzymes. May deplete glycine levels. Avoid ifyou suffer from asthma, rhinitis, urticaria or other allergies.\n\n\nBrilliant Black BN - In drinks, sauces, snacks, wines, cheese, etc.\nAvoid if you suffer from asthma, rhinitis, urticaria, or other allergies.\n\n\nButylated Hydroxy-anisole - Preservative, particularly in fat-containing foods, confectionery, meats.\nThe International Agency for Research on Cancer says BHA is possibly carcinogenic to humans. BHA also interacts with nitrites to form chemicals known to cause changes in the DNA of cells.\n\n\nCalcium benzoate - Preservative in many foods, including drinks, low-sugar products, cereals, meat products.\nCan temporarily inhibit function of digestive enzymes and may deplete levels ofthe amino acid glycine. Should be avoided by those with hay fever, hives, and asthma.\n\n\nCalcium sulphite - Preservative in a vast array of foods-from burgers to biscuits, from frozen mushrooms to horseradish. Used to make old produce look fresh.\nIn the U.S., sulphites are banned from many foods, including meat. They can cause bronchial problems, flushing, low blood pressure, tingling, and anaphylactic shock. The International Labour Organization says avoid them ifyou suffer from bronchial asthma, cardiovascular or respiratory problems and emphysema.\n\n\nMonosodium glutamate (MSG) - Flavor enhancer.\nHas been known to cause pressure on the head, seizures, chest pains, headache, nausea, burning sensations, and tightness of face. Many baby food producers have stopped adding MSG to their products.\n\n\nPonceau 4R, Conchineal Red A - Food coloring.\nPeople who suffer from asthma, rhinitis or urticaria may find their symptoms become worse following consumption of foods containing this coloring.\n\n\nPotassium benozoate - See calcium benzoate.\nSee calcium benzoate.\n\n\nPotassium nitrate - Preservative in cured meats and canned meat products.\nIt can lower the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood; it may combine with other substances to form nitrosamines, which are carcinogenic; and it may have an atrophying effect on the adrenal gland.\n\n\nPropyl p-hydroxybenozoate, propylparaben, and paraben - Preservative in cereals, snacks, pate, meat products, confectionery.\nParabens have been identified as the cause of chronic dermatitis in numerous instances.\n\n\nSaccharin & its Na, K and Ca salts - Sweetener in diet, and no-sugar products.\nThe International Agency for Research on Cancer has concluded that saccharin is possibly carcinogenic to humans.\n\n\nSodium metabisulphite - Preservative and antioxidant.\nMay provoke life-threatening asthma.\n\n\nSodium sulphite - Preservative used in wine-making and other processed foods.\nSulphites have been associated with triggering asthma attacks. Most asthmatics are sensitive to sulphites in food.\n\n\nStannous chloride (tin) - Antioxidant and color-retention agent in canned and bottled foods, fruit juices.\nAcute poisoning has been reported from ingestion of fruit juices containing concentrations of tin greater than 250 mg per liter.\n\n\nSulphur dioxide - Preservative.\nSulphur dioxide reacts with a wide range of substances found in food, including various essential vitamins, minerals, enzymes and essential fatty acids. Adverse reactions: bronchial problems particularly in those prone to asthma, hypotension (low blood pressure), flushing tingling sensations or anaphylactic shock. International Labour Organization says to avoid E220 if you suffer from conjunctivitis, bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma, or cardiovascular disease.\n\n\nSunset Yellow / FCF, Orange / Yellow S - Food coloring.\nSome animal studies have indicated growth retardation and severe weight loss. People with asthma, rhinitis, or urticaria should avoid this product.\n\n\nTartrazine - Yellow food coloring. \nMay cause allergic reactions and asthmatic attacks and has been implicated in bouts of hyperactivity disorder in children. Those who suffer from asthma, rhinitis and urticaria may find symptoms worsen after consumption.\n\nSource:
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