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 ...
That, and the wheat in this country is also different from the wheat produced elsewhere...Which is why some celiac-disposed people in the states are able to eat bread/pastas overseas with no problem...
Same goes for dairy and meat products...
HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) is also banned in most countries, which is why products like Coca-Cola and Heinz ketchup have different ingredients abroad.
Ah yes, the standard Remoaner scare tactics. If it’s so unsafe and all, why don’t Americans have shorter lifespans for similar ethnic populations or worse outcomes for diseases, etc?
We have the medical care/drugs to address symptoms of diseases (like diabetes, etc...) AFTER they happen. But we do a horrible job of preventative care, and it’s one of the reasons why healthcare costs are so high.
American life expectancy has actually gone down in recent years (due to numerous factors, not just poor diets) —but in general, it has actually lagged behind developed Asian and European countries.
DHMO, for example, is known to be present in ALL cancer cells. ALL of them. And yet we allow it to be used in bread, soft drinks, and even children's ice cream! That crap should be BANNED.
Simple solution - don’t eat anything made from grain, except animals.
Any form of bromine is really bad for your health.
It tries to replace iodine in your body but is an unnatural substance for your body.
Remember bromoseltzer?
“DHMO”
Water you talking about?
I’m talking about an extremely powerful industrial solvent and cleanser. Why anybody would ingest it (or compel other people to ingest it) is quite a mystery ...
Easy solution. Pick up a bread maker at Goodwill for 8 bucks or so. The only things they have more of are Forman grills and ink jet printers.
Bake in your oven in a preheated covered enameled cast iron pot (A Dutch Oven bakes as good as any cloche) and you will have the best bread ever or if you are lazy just let the bread maker do its thing.
The same differences occur over a host of products, from food additives, to preservatives to pesticides.
Europeans don’t have any overall greater concern for their citizens than we do, nor are they particularly any wiser. Mostly differences occur in local business interests, and the need to maintain cheap consumer goods - and the politics that flows from that.
There are also things that are banned in US food products and agriculture that are still allowed, and very common in Europe.
“HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) is also banned in most countries,”
FAKE NEWS
Since I can afford it I ONLY by natural and organic stuff.
these days I mostly live on unprocessed food like fresh fish or meats.
I have eggs from my own chickens (you only need 3 or 4 of them) and grind my own wheat. I feel SO MUCH better
CAREFULLY READ your cheese packages. Many grated or crumbled cheeses have CELLULOSE. Wood. I heard they use recycled newsprint. Gross. Make sure your cheese packages do not list CELLULOSE!
And the federal government ALLOWS a certain amount of cellulose in cheese.
I also totally avoid fluoride and CHlorine !
Why does Europe ban guns that are perfectly legal in the U.S.?
Agreed!
Have been using a $50 bread machine for 12 years, only replaced a lost paddle for a few $, and we have fresh bread without preservatives 2x/week.
Just discovered no-knead bread here:
https://www.jennycancook.com/no-dutch-oven-this-no-knead-bread-is-for-you/
Dihydrogen Monoxide for the win!
(I’m sad to see we still have some kooks here).
Cool. I live on salami, beer and processed cheese.
When does the FR vegan cadre start coming out?
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