Chemicals in Food

• Chemicals on Food Labels
• What Are Food Preservatives?
• What Are Natural Toxins?

Chemicals on Food Labels

• Acesulfame k
• Annatto (Food Coloring)
• Artificial flavor
• Aspertame - artificial sweetener; replaces sugar to sweeten food and drinks
• Baking soda
• Benzene - present in some flavoured drinks
• Benzoate - preservative
• Bht (to maintain freshness)
• Bisphenol A - low levels in plastic baby bottles are safe
• Canola oil
• Cottonseed Oil (Hydroginated)
• Corn Syrop
• Diglycerides
• Dioxins - by-products from industrial and thermal processes
• Endosulfan - controls insects in crops
• Folate - for healthy growth and development of blood cells and nerve tissue
• Folic acid - for healthy growth and development of blood cells and nerve tissue
• Glycerol
• Hemp seed oil -
• Lead -
• Malic acid
• Melamine -
• Monoglycerides
• (MSG) Mono-sodium glutamate - brings out the flavour in food
• Natural flavor
• Nitrates - preservative
• Palm oil
• Phenylketonurics
• Phenylanine
• Semicarbazide - low levels found in some glass jar seals
• Sorbate - preservative
• Soy lecithin
• Synthetic colours - food coloring
• Sudan 1 - cancer causing, non-food red dye found in some chilli powder
• Sulphite - preservative

Natural Toxins

NATURAL TOXINS

• Acrylamide - by-product of the cooking process
• Arsenic - present in seafood and plants from our soil, water, air, fertilisers and other chemicals; increases risk of cancer
• Mercury - present in most seafood and of greatest concern for pregnant women
• Phytoestrogens -