Posted on 04/11/2013 10:57:01 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Really wanna know?
http://jezebel.com/5928561/when-you-learn-whats-really-in-your-food-you-may-stop-eating-altogether
http://www.naturalnews.com/033162_food_ingredients_chemicals.html
And that’s just for starters.
Buy single ingredient food and make up your own recipes.
Except stevia.
There are those in our food producing industries who would disclose nothing about their products if they were not required to disclose: nothing about additives, nothing about the nutritional profile, nothing about sugar or sugar substitutes, nothing about country of origin, and nothing about whether food crops used were genetically modified. Of course, they’re getting away with not disclosing GM foods, and the country of origin disclosure is a mixed situation at present.
Yet some claim that requiring such disclosures is an anti-conservative position, and withholding basic information from consumers is somehow conservative.
Not surprising, since it’s a neurotoxins. Also linked to brain tumors. The FDA kept it out of the food supply for 16 years, until Rumsfeld involved. But hey, it’s just cancer, right?
Me too, and I don’t care if it is on the label or not. You can instantly tell as soon as you taste a product if it contains aspartame.
Information about aspartame:
Aspartame is rapidly hydrolyzed in the small intestines. Even with ingestion of very high doses of aspartame (over 200 mg/kg), no aspartame is found in the blood due to the rapid breakdown.[7] These metabolites have been studied in a wide range of populations including infants, children, adolescents, and healthy adults. In healthy adults and children, even enormous doses of aspartame do not lead to plasma levels of metabolites that are a concern for safety.
(HOWEVER)
Upon ingestion, aspartame breaks down into residual components, including aspartic acid, phenylalanine, methanol,[46] in ratio of 4:5:1 by mass[47] and further breakdown products including formaldehyde[48] and formic acid, accumulation of the latter being suspected as the major cause of injury in methanol poisoning. Human studies show that formic acid is excreted faster than it is formed after ingestion of aspartame. In some fruit juices, higher concentrations of methanol can be found than the amount produced from aspartame in beverages.[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame
Methanol and formaldehyde are not good for people’s bodies.
Unless you are already dead.
Well that’s not good for me, I’m type 1 diabetic. If they are adding High Fructose Corn Syrup or Aspartame to milk, that sucks for diabetics! The HF goes without saying, but as others mention I avoid Aspartame, it is poison.
Aspartame gives me an instant headache.
hmmm didn’t know that. I have recently been flirting with Almond Milk. It is a taste that takes time to acquire. I have used in smoothie, not bad. Yet when I use it for coffee or cereal it has a different taste. I have to use the unsweetened vanilla flavor due to being diabetic.
I just checked my milk. It just says they don’t use artificial growth hormones.
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I have often wondered if our nationwide obesity problem is tied to the growth hormones give to livestock. Likewise, I suspect that such hormones also account for the fact that children today are reaching puberty at earlier ages and for the fact that there are so many well-endowed teen girls.
I now buy milk and half and half labeled “organic”. Organic butter when I can find it. Have not seen organic cheese for sale around here.
Do you have a sensitivity to regular cow milk? Depending on where you are, there might be options.
Apparently not.
ALL “sugar substitutes” are poison.
NutraSweet, Splenda, sucralose, whatever.
They’re all chemical death.
Ace-K and Stevia are not bad at all. But Yeah, most artifical sweetners are horrible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acesulfame_potassium
I avoid anything with aspartame.
From the wiki:
However, because its breakdown products include phenylalanine, aspartame must be avoided by people with the genetic condition phenylketonuria (PKU).
Isn’t putting it in food without labeling going to open up a slew of lawsuits from people who have PKU who drink the stuff and get really sick...
Is this true? Is sugar already added to milk without identifying it?
That would only be somewhat less horrific than adding aspartame to milk without identifying it.
Can someone please confirm or clarify?
Yes, I think almond milk is quite palatable.
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