Do you usually read through ingredient lists of the food you buy? They are defin

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Do you usually read through ingredient lists of the food you buy? They are definitely not the same from the good ol’ days! It is common to see propylene glycol in cookies and cakes as humectants to keep them moist, BHT & BHA as preservatives, and lots of FD&C artificial colors in all sorts of foods….Some examples~

Kellogg's Froot Loops contains BHT (look under Nutritional Infomation):  https://www.kelloggs.com/en_US/products/kellogg-s-froot-loops-cereal-product.html

Ingredients: Sugar, corn flour blend (whole grain yellow corn flour, degerminated yellow corn flour), wheat flour, whole grain oat flour, oat fiber, modified food starch, soluble corn fiber, contains 2% or less of hydrogenated vegetable oil (coconut, soybean and/or cottonseed), salt, natural flavor, red 40, turmeric extract color, yellow 6, blue 1, annatto extract color, BHT for freshness. Vitamins and Minerals: Vitamin C (sodium ascorbate and ascorbic acid), niacinamide, reduced iron, zinc oxide, vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B1 (thiamin hydrochloride), vitamin A palmitate, folic acid, vitamin B12, vitamin D3.

Cheerios Protein Cinnamon Almond contains BHT (look under Nutritional Information):  http://www.cheerios.com/products/Cheerios-Protein-Cinnamon-Almond.aspx

Chicken McNuggets is prepared in oil that contains TBHQ & Dimethylpolysiloxane: http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food/product_nutrition.chickenfish.483.chicken-mcnuggets-4-piece.html

CHICKEN MCNUGGETS

Ingredients: White Boneless Chicken, Water, Food Starch-Modified, Salt, Seasoning (Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Salt, Wheat Starch, Natural Flavoring, Safflower Oil, Dextrose, Citric Acid), Sodium Phosphates, Natural Flavor. Battered and Breaded with: Water, Enriched Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Yellow Corn Flour, Bleached Wheat Flour, Food Starch-Modified, Salt, Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Calcium Lactate), Spices, Wheat Starch, Dextrose, Corn Starch. Contains: WHEAT.

Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent.

Read the ingredient list of your favorite cereal, cookie, chips, or any other "processed food." Do you see any ingredient you don’t recognize? List them out and do some research to find out why they are put in the recipes. Write or call the customer center of the company and explain to them why you would like them to take out the ingredient(s). Let’s flex our consumer power to drive changes in the food industry to a more natural & healthy direction.

Share with the class the following info:

1. the name & manufacture of the food in concern

2. the ingredient(s) in concern; and your reasons?

3. the response of the customer service personnel.

General Cheerios 11g protein with milk Cinnamon Almond Sweetened Whole GlainComand0atCereal with Crunchy Almond GranolaClusters and Real Cinnamon NO ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS ARTIFICIAL SOURCES Nutrition Facts Ingredients: Whole Grain Corn, Cluster (whole grain oats, sugar, soy proteinisolale, almonds, soy four com syrup, canoa oil wheat four, graham wheat four, tapioca starch, molasses, salt, soy lecithin, honey, Cheerios baking soda, natural favor. Vitamin E (mixed Cinnamon cup skim tocopherols andol of rosemary added to preserve Per Serving Almond milk freshness.) Sugar, Whole Grain Oats, Canola andor 220 Rice Oil Refiners Syrup, Cinnamon, Salt, 40 40 Calories Calories from Fat Caramel Color, Com Bran, Trisodium Phosphate, Daily Value LLysine, Natural Flavor.Vitamin E mixed Total Fat 4. 3% 3% tocopherols and BHTAdded to Preserve Freshness. Saturated Fat 0 Vitamins and Minerals: Calcium Carbonate,Vitamin Trans Fa C (sodium ascorbate), Zinc and lon mineral Polyunsaturated Fat Monounsaturated Fat 2.5g nutrients, AB Vitamin (nlaonami0e), Vitamin Bs 0% 1% pyridoxine hydrochloride, Vitamin B2 (riboflavin), Cholesterol 9% 12% Vitamin B1 (thiamin mononitrate), Vitamin A Sodium 220mg Potassium 17 5% 11 palmitate, AB Vitamin (olic acid, Vitamin B12, Total Carb 10g 12 16 Vitamin D, Fiber 12 12% CONTAINS SOY ALMONDAND WHEAT Sugars 16g NGREDIENTS. e2 Protein 7g 10 18 D General Mills May be mfg. under US.Pat No. 7,021525 Exchange: 21/2 Starch, 1/2 Fat VitaminA 15% Based AcademyofNutritionand DieteticsandAmerican Vitamin 25% 25% Diabetes Association criteria 20% 35% This package is sold by weight, not by volume. You canbe assured of proper weight even though some setting ofcontents lon 35% 20% normally occurs during shipment and handling 25% 35% 25% Folic Acid 50% 30% 25% 10% Zinc 30%

Explanation / Answer

1) Food name- Maggi, Manufacturer- Nestle

2) monosodium glutamate(MSG) - MSG, which is used as a flavour enhancer can cause headache, nausea.

3) They were looking into the matter testing their own samples to get the result whether the above chemicals cause any problems.

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