Posted on 05/31/2019 11:51:36 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Give us this day our daily foam expander. It may sound odd, but in America, your loaf of bread can contain ingredients with industrial applications – additives that also appear in things like yoga mats, pesticides, hair straighteners, explosives and petroleum products.
Some of these chemicals, used as optional whiteners, dough conditioners and rising agents, may be harmful to human health. Potassium bromate, a potent oxidizer that helps bread rise, has been linked to kidney and thyroid cancers in rodents. Azodicarbonamide (ACA), a chemical that forms bubbles in foams and plastics like vinyl, is used to bleach and leaven dough – but when baked, it, too, has been linked to cancer in lab animals.
Other countries, including China, Brazil and members of the European Union, have weighed the potential risks and decided to outlaw potassium bromate in food. India banned it in 2016, and the UK has forbidden it since 1990. Azodicarbonamide has been banned for consumption by the European Union for over a decade.
But despite petitions from several advocacy groups – some dating back decades – the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) still considers these to be Gras or “generally recognized as safe” to eat...
“The system for ensuring that ingredients added to food are safe is broken,” said Lisa Lefferts, senior scientist at the consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I have noticed that I can eat bread I make, from known good stuff, and my blood sugar stays sane. From what I can figure, it’s getting good wheat. using filtered water and olive oil instead of butter seems to go easier on my brain and bowels, too.
Careful with a straight up comparison of life expectancy between Europeans and Americans. There are ethnic differences. For example, heart disease is more common among African Americans as is low birth weight. To get a more accurate comparison you need to compare like with like.....ie Danish Americans with Danes. Things look rather different when you make that comparison.
Another important thing to remember is that in European countries babies under a certain birth weight which have a high mortality rate are not defined as “live births”. In America they are so when inevitably a relatively high percentage of them die it drags down average life expectancy in America.
Then there is the matter of obesity. America is a bit ahead of most European countries on this unfortunate curve though the Europeans are catching up quickly.
Lifespan alone is a poor measure of how healthy the food is or how effective the medical system is.
More food-scare nonsense. I understand that breathing a mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, and a few trace gases results in 100 PERCENT FATALITY ... eventually.
A relative gave me her BF's opened but unused machine last month. With the Hensperger book.
He read the manual's recipes, and making a depression for the yeast was too much trouble.
Seriously.
Used to make sourdough bread all the time. I need to start again.
What about those Body Order Europeans bringing home their loaf of bread just stuck under their arm , barf
Eat whatever you want, but stop trying to ban or dictate what other people choose to eat. Your imposing yourself as a third party into my decisions about what to buy and consume is nothing but pure socialism. I’m not even sure why people like you are attracted to FreeRepublic because you are clearly opposed to me and others like me having the freedom to make our own choices.
My screenname was inspired by Condoleezza Rice.
Ok...so yes, there are environmental/societal/lifestyle factors aplenty.
North Koreans have a lower life expectancy than South Koreans. That’s Just one example.
“why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?”
So people who buy at the day-old break store can use it for another two weeks.
In moderation IronJack...I still enjoy my occasional fast food fix, but even chains like McDonalds have been forced to review and adjust their ingredients thanks to a healthy increase in consumer vigilance.
I make sourdough bread in my machine by using yogurt. Can barely taste the difference.
Europe does lots of stupid stuff. I don’t use those mental midgets as my standard.
Perhaps because I don't give a raging crap about what Europeans think is good or bad, right or wrong?
If I did give a crap, I would live there. But I don't.
It’s why I eat only certified organic products sourced in the US.
Lot of lefty kooks.
More now than ever.
“Azodicarbonamide (ACA), a chemical that forms bubbles in foams and plastics like vinyl, is used to bleach and leaven dough”
No thank you. Anything beyond anti-freeze in my diet worries me. :-)
https://www.eater.com/2016/3/3/11153876/cheese-wood-pulp-cellulose-lawsuits
Mar 3, 2016 - Nora Weiser, executive director of the American Cheese Society,
says cellulose isn’t found in wheels of cheese, but in shredded varieties,
where it’s used as an anti-caking agent. “It is a legal, food-grade additive,”
she says. “It keeps the grated cheese products from clumping.”
Why? Because , generally , euros are nitwits . That’s why.
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