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Your Daily Additives – Dye Week – Aluminum Lake

General research: Dyes used for food are chemically classified as azo, xanthene, triphenylmethane, and indigoid dyes. Although certifiable color additives have been called coal-tar colors because of their traditional origins, today they are synthesized mainly from raw materials obtained from… 0 Shares | | Posted in Chemicals, Food, Health, Nutrition

Your Daily Additives – Dye Week – Yellow #5

Considering hyperactivity runs in my family from my grandpa, to my dad, to me down to my son, I never learned the connection that has been presented in modern-day studies that food dyes are classified a main contributor. Ironically enough,… 0 Shares | | Posted in Chemicals, Food, Health, Health, Nutrition

Getting Smarter About Your Food

The discussion about eating organically has been in and out of the spot light, especially recently because of the GMO conversations. We’ll leave the GMO issue for another time and focus specifically on shopping for and eating organically. Whether you… 0 Shares | | Posted in Food, Nutrition

Your Daily Additives – Dye Week – Blue #2

I have to ask: If you need protective gloves, splash goggles, lab coat and a respirator, should whatever your working with stay in a lab and not be put in food? Do you have to consult a specialist before cleaning … 0 Shares | | Posted in Chemicals, Food, Health, Health, Nutrition

Your Daily Additives – Dye Week – Blue #1

I have to ask: If you need personal protective equipment to handle food…Can you assume it’s safe to eat? I don’t think avocados are corrosive, you don’t necessarily need splash goggles to slice into a watermelon, or a dust respirator… 0 Shares | | Posted in Chemicals, Food, Health, Nutrition

America’s food obsession

I just finished reading Mika Brzezinski’s new book Obsessed: America’s Food Addiction – And My Own. It was one of those books that I consumed in just a few sittings, mainly because I saw myself on nearly every page page… 0 Shares | | Posted in Food, Health, Nutrition

Your Daily Additives – Dye Week – Red #40

I have to ask: If you need personal protective equipment to handle food…Can you assume it’s safe to eat? It’s safe to say avocados aren’t corrosive, you don’t necessarily need splash goggles to slice into a watermelon, or a dust… 0 Shares | | Posted in Chemicals, Food, Health, Nutrition

Your Daily Additives – Dye Week

I once saw a picture that read, “Warning. Keep out. Dangerous poison. pesticides and herbicides used” This was next to a crop of the science experiment the FDA and Monsanto call food. A subtitle read, “Amazing how it’s poison and… 0 Shares | | Posted in Chemicals, Food, Health, Nutrition

Your Daily Additives – MSG

It is extremely convenient this additive has been around and patented since 1909 and I believe it has been one of the most used and most denied chemical food agents of all. Yet among all the others toxic G.R.A.S. substances… 0 Shares | | Posted in Food, Health

Your Daily Additives

I thoroughly enjoy researching the toxins “food scientests” produce, put into all processed food and how the FDA claims that they’re G.R.A.S. (Generally Recognized As Safe) With about 95% of the research I’ve done over the last two years the… 0 Shares | | Posted in Health