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Ultra-Processed Foods: A Load of Baloney?
Science Vs
Is There a New Food Adative?
New food adatives are popping up faster than science can study them. There were also plenty of adactives in food we may think of as healthy. We found something called locust bean gum, which i don't even know what that is.
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There were also plenty of adactives in food we may think of as healthy. For example, a lot of vegan foods our ultra processed in vegan yoger. We found something called locust bean gum. I
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don't even know what that is. A locust bean doesn't sound like something id wantto yet.
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Sounds like something that would crawl out of the ground every seven years. Yes, but
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just because maryl and i don't know what something is doesn't necessarily mean it's scary. So when we got back from the store, i looked up some of these adtives. And you know how knowledge is power, most of them seemed pretty innocent when i learned what they were. For example, mixed coferols are vitam an e. It's an anti occident that stops food from turning brown. And yeast extract is a flavoring that tickles our mami receptors. But there are some adatives that have raised eyebrows. And one man with eyebrows raised almost to the ceiling is carlos montero. He's a professor of nutrition and public health at the university of salpalo in brazil. Hi carlos. Hello. Carlos has been studying ultra process food for years. He actually coined the term in a two thousand and nine paper. And he says, new food adatives are popping up faster than science can study them.
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In the fas ime, we had just a few adatives. To
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day, you have thousands. And
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well, here in the us, the fta vets a lot of the adatives that end up in food, but we know some bad stuff has snuck in in the past, so we can't always count on that. And carlo says there's one group he's particularly concerned about that's found i a lot of food, amulsifiers.
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