What's really in the food? The A to Z of the food industry's most evil ingredients

Most of these are old news for me, but still worth noting. What's sad is when a food additive is scientifically determined to be dangerous to ingest and yet its still allowed anyhow.

What's really in the food? The A to Z of the food industry's most evil ingredients

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Diet soda in 'fat' shocker - Expands girth, hikes blood sugar

Diet soda makes you fat and boosts your blood sugar, the New York Post reports.  And when I drink it, it dries out my throat and gives me a headache, hence why I don't drink it.

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Natural Brew Draft Root Beer

This blog has veered a little too much into vaccines and vasectomies and things like that, that I've gotten too far off the core idea initially behind this blog, and that's musing about food and nutrition.  Well, one thing worth mentioning is my love of root beer - not always healthy and probably not very wise with all the sugar, but if I'm going to have any vices, its not going to be cancerous foods or neurotoxic drinks, but rather a tasty root beer here and there.

Natural Brew Draft Root Beer is fantastic in that the ingredients are very genuine.  No HFCS, caffiene, aspartame and garbage, but rather things like sweet birch, licorice root, sarsaparilla, and real vanilla.  Whats so nice about this is the rich aftertaste - very flavorful and very delicious.  It is a tad on the pricey side, unfortunately, but it's a very tasty treat.

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9 Ingredients to avoid in processed foods

An excellent, and surprisingly thorough, article on Shine listing out food additives to avoid in foods, including potential health side effects. Of course the list could have gone further: I would have included homogenized dairy products and any wheat products with processed, bleached flour, but all things considered, this was a good, comprehensive list.

Bravo to the author for including all of the variations of artificial sweetners as well. I would have liked to see all of the derrivatives of MSG listed, though, such as autolyzed yeast, yeast extract, etc.

I thought it ironic that the advertisement on the page featured an image of a cupcake that likely contained ingredients violating most of the ingredients listed in the article...

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Batgirl Re-Written

Just some silliness I reworded with PhotoShop...

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Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) and What is this stuff?

Another good article on NaturalNews about hydrolized protein in food. I've long puzzled over the similarity between MSG, autolyzed & hydrolized protein and yeast extract, and this article helps offer a little more insight into this.

I can usually tell if a food has MSG or similar family of strange chemical, as there's a distinct unnatural aftertaste in the mouth that follows eating the food. Aspartame and artificial sweetners have a similar effect as well. I would never experience this sort of mysterious after-effect flavor after eating something like an organic apple.

The article goes on to point out how the FDA has no problems with approving these food additives, and only really had issues when there was the possibility of a salmonella outbreak. Otherwise, it's perfectly "safe"?

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Aspartame renamed as ‘AminoSweet’?

I just read this article about the manufacturer of aspartame remarketing aspartame as "AminoSweet". It doesn't matter what they call it: if I eat/drink anything with it, it dries out my mouth and gives me a headache. It never ceases to amaze me how well this stuff sells, though. Every time I'm at the store, there are carts loaded with cases of diet sodas. Clearly this stuff sells, even though its safety is debatable.

Here's another amusing article about a lawsuit involving an ASDA grocery store labeling aspartame as "nasty". I'm in complete agreement.

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Soft Drinks Aren't Good For You (Obviously)

Yahoo! had another half-decent article on the negative side of soda, including citing the negatives of aspartame. The article could have gone a little bit further, but I think the article covered a number of important negative aspects of regular soda consumption. I do enjoy non-HFCS soda's from time to time, and these are likely my biggest nutritional vice, and the article points out some good alternatives to soda (such as water, which I really should be drinking more of.)

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