Food additive

• According to the Food and Agriculture organization: “Food safety is about handling, storing and preparing food to prevent infection and help to make sure that our food keeps enough nutrients for us to have a healthy diet” In other words, food safety is not just about eating balanced and healthy food, but it is about eating safe food and avoiding any kind of food borne diseases, most common: 1- Spongiform encephalopathies • Campylobacter • Escherichia coli infections • Salmonella • Shigella…

I was eating lunch at school one day, and that’s when I realized that the food I was eating was destroying us. Claire, my foggy-headed friend, had asked me if my Uncrustable peanut butter & jelly sandwich was “healthy”, so I tiredly reached over to the wrapper and looked at the nutrition label and then the ingredient list. I’ve never actually paid attention to what I was putting in my body and eating, which probably wasn’t a good thing. I noticed that there was something that I had never seen…

1.1 Why do we need packed food? Packaged foods are driven heavily by the trend towards more convenient preparation and consumption, which is a result of a busy lifestyle and an aging population. Packaged foods must be tasty and high quality, that meeting with consumer expectations in terms of ease of use, variety, safety, packaging, nutritional value and product appeal. And consumers are attracted by their relatively low cost and complexity, easily use, variety, and availability in every…

director of the health program at Environmental Defense agrees, that using antibiotics should not be used as a feed to help chickens grow. He says that “using antibiotics to treat sick farm animals is one thing. But using antibiotics as routine feed additive to promote growth and compensate for poor conditions is quite another.” Antibiotics being used in factory farms would not impact the individual’s public health, we know that “there is not enough evidence to show a clear link between the use…

processed foods is actually causing a non cognitive ethical situation because society has decided to follow its feelings and opinions about eating processed foods instead of using rational thinking about the harmful health effects of eating these foods. Initially, while it may not seem like it processed foods were created for the good of society, but society has turned it around for its selfish needs.Because processed foods are cheap and easy, Many don’t care to know what processed food is, or…

Here are a few other benefits according to the aforementioned agencies: • less need for pesticides • less need for some additives, such as preservatives and antioxidants • lower risk of importing or exporting insect pests hidden inside food products • reduced need for toxic chemical treatments, such as those used to kill bacteria found in some spices • used as an alternative to an ozone-depleting gas to disinfect imported fruits, grains, and vegetables Until recent years, only irradiated dried…

is no stranger and can be found in every metropolis and most developing regions. Since the 1920’s, the cuisines first appearance, Chinese food has not lost popularity and currently holds the title as the most nationally craved menu. Often overlook by the delicious, salty-sweet flavours is authenticity of foreign cuisine. Though when diagnosed, the Chinese food consumed in North America is merely a distant ancestor of the dishes served in China. Americanization has consumed an entire cuisine in…

Superfoods On A Budget Eating the right food is important for your health as well as wellbeing, but doing so can also be expensive. Not only is it often time consuming to find certain healthy foods that are not stocked by regular supermarkets, but their price tags also serve as a big deterrent. In fact, cost is often one of the main reasons why people say that they do not eat healthier. However, this doesn’t mean that you have to sacrifice your health and eat fast food just because it is a…

decisions about what foods we put into our body. In many countries the options are minimal, but here in America, they seem everlasting. With a vast variety of foods readily available at the drop of a hat, it is easy to fall into substandard nutritional habits. There are so many factors we encounter in day to day life that affects what type of food we choice to eat. Situations relating to work, school, and stress are a few of the countless reasons that steer people away from healthy foods and…

give you Alzheimer’s would you eat it? Well, the food industry is getting away with just that! In order to save millions of dollars, they carry an unfortunate secret by cutting corners and causing people to develop health concerns and incurable illnesses worldwide, especially in America. Food today is closer to a science experiment orchestrated in a lab rather than produced by a local farmer. The food industry produces processed foods with additives, preservatives and other chemicals in order…