Instant potatoes are a common product being used in our ever changing, fast paced lives. We seem to never have enough time to do anything let alone try and sit down to have a good/real meal. So we get to have potatoes in a box (yay) but we know they don’t taste as good, we know they are more expensive than real potatoes and of course they are less healthy than real potatoes. These boxes of potatoes also have less protein, fiber and vitamins than the real ones.
These boxed potatoes are another...
Benzaldehyde: Almond Oil A...
Benzaldehyde is made by adding chlorine on hot toluence and is used in processing perfumes, flavoring compound and in the preparation in certain aniline dyes. Benzaldehyde is used as an ingredient in cherry and other natural fruit flavors. Unpurified oil of bitter almonds is made of mostly (90-95%) benzaldehyde with a small amount of the poison hydrocyani acid. About 1% of this oil is in almond extract....
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS...
Sodium Laureth/Lauryl Sulfate are surfactants that are used in many household items, soaps, and hair products to produce a foaming effect when it is used or as a detergent in soaps.This happens when sulfite and lauric acid are combined sometimes even formaldehyde is added. Studies shows amounts of SLS at a low .5% would cause irritation and amounts of 10-30% would cause skin corrosion and severe irritation....
Propyl Gallate: Everything...
Propyl Gallate Is an antioxidant preservative used in stabilizing animal fats and vegetable oils in foods and slows deterioration of cosmetics and other personal care products. PG is highly soluble in oils and water and has the same carry-through effects like BHA, BHT and TBHQ. Propyl Gallate also combines with iron ions resulting in the discoloration of some foods which is why citric acid is needed...
Mac & Cheese : I̵...
Mac and cheese is one of the most common food products in almost any household across North America. Mac and cheese very common in low income households and is one of the most donated “meals in a box” there are. This is not the kind of food anyone should be eating, let alone for people who don’t even have the choice and are practically forced to eat it.
Some people enjoy it and some...
Potassium Bromate: Flour P...
Potassium bromate is a flour enhancer,it strengthens the dough allowing it to rise higher. In under the right conditions this oxidizing agent will be completely used up when baking the bread. But if too much is used or the bread is under cooked and not heated properly a residual amount will be left in.
Potassium bromate is the by product of the ozonization of drinking water. Research has been done...
Bisphenol A (BPA): The Bab...
Bisphenol A is a chemical that is found in tin and plastic food containers. BPA mimics the effect of oestrogen a female sex hormone which has been suspected to cause developmental problems and obesity in young children when it is consumed. Bisphenol A has been used in epoxy resins for decades. These resins are used as a coating for metal cans and plastic containers.
In a new scientific hearing, the...
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