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If you can't buy organic, try to avoid these chemical baddies when buying food...
Colours
102 tartrazine
104 quinoline yellow
107 yellow 2G
110 sunset yellow
122 azorubine, carmoisine
123 amaranth
124 ponceau, brilliant scarlet
127 erythrosine
128 red 2G
129 allura red
132 indigotine, indigo carmine
133 brilliant blue
142 green S, food green, acid brilliant green
151 brilliant black
155 brown, chocolate brown
160b annatto, bixin, norbixin
Preservatives
200-203 sorbic acid, all sorbates
210-213 benzoic acid, all benzoates
220-228 sulphur dioxide, all sulphites, bisulphites, metabisulphites
249-252 all nitrates & nitrites
280-283 propionic acid, all propionates
Artificial antioxidants
310-312 all gallates
319-321 TBHQ, BHA butylated hydroxyanisole, BHT butylated hydroxytoluene
Flavour enhancers
620-625 glutamic acid and all glutamates, MSG monosodium glutamate
627 disodium guanylate
631 disodium inosinate
635 ribonucleotides Yeast extract, HVP HPP hydrolysed vegetable or plant protein
(Flavourings are trade secrets so we aren't told what's in them.)
Information taken from http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/.
And click here for their handy pocket reference card listing these additives.
© Mark Mann / EcoDirectory
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