By David Gortler, Pharm. D With Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays in part celebrating America’s harvest blessings, we celebrate with a diet fêted with all kinds of rich and high-calorie foods. That makes it a good time to write about the FDA’s regulation of permitted food…
Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ZeroHedge) A new study suggests potential health risks associated with carrageenan (derived from red seaweed), a common food additive used as a thickener and found in everything from ice cream to plant-based milk. Researchers found that…
Authored by Charles Cornish-Dale via The Epoch Times, Scientists at the University of Texas, Dallas recently discovered that a common food additive can make flesh translucent – literally. Applying a solution of the yellow food colouring tartrazine to the skin of live mice allowed scientists…
Authored by Matthew Little via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Not long ago, people could only dream of the foods we have today. Tasty, cheap, and ready to eat. They last forever, look great, and come in endless varieties. Ultra-processed foods are a dream come…
Authored by Flora Zhao via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), On her first day after moving from Australia to the United States, Elizabeth Dunford walked into a supermarket to buy bread. As a researcher of food additives, she instinctively glanced at the ingredients label. “Why…
Authored by Amy Denney via The Epoch Times (emphasis ZeroHedge) A naturally derived antibiotic that helps preserve food by killing any threatening pathogens has kept our food safe for decades. The World Health Organization and even watchdog groups have classified this additive, called nisin, as…
By Study Finds Food additives that give bacon and sausages their characteristic color and flavor could be causing eaters to develop Type 2 diabetes, new research warns. A team in France has found that nitrites and nitrates raise the risk of the metabolic disease. Food…
By John Anderer Troubling new research finds the majority of foods purchased by Americans (60%) contain any number of artificial additives such as preservatives, sweeteners, and coloring or flavoring agents. Even worse, these levels represent a 10-percent increase since 2001. The study makes a strong…
A common food additive, recently banned in France but allowed in the U.S. and many other countries, was found to significantly alter gut microbiota in mice, causing inflammation in the colon and changes in protein expression in the liver, according to research led by a…
A food additive found in more than 900 food products such as chewing gum and mayonnaise has an impact on the gut microbiota which could trigger diseases. University of Sydney research provides new evidence that nanoparticles, which are present in many food items, may have…
