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To: riri
Except for sodium nitrate and sodium phosphate in ham (isn't there something in wine?), I don't believe I'm ingesting chemicals, preservatives, additives...on a daily basis.

I eat fresh meat, cheese, eggs, well-washed fresh or frozen vegetables, fresh or frozen fruit, fresh bread and fresh grains. I drink milk, orange juice, tea and wine. Sounds fairly additive free...

Wait, wait, wait! There's BHT in my cereal. (Who wants stale cereal?)


You must think I eat things like Krispy Kreme Donuts!

Ingredients of a Krispy Kreme raspberry-filled glazed donut:
Ingredients: Enriched bleached wheat flour (contains bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), dextrose, vegetable shortening (partially hydrogenated soybean and/or cottonseed oil), water, sugar, soy flour, egg yolks, vital wheat gluten, yeast, nonfat milk, yeast nutrients (calcium sulfate, ammonium sulfate), dough conditioners (calcium dioxide, monocalcium and dicalcium phosphate, diammonium phosphate, sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate, whey, starch, ascorbic acid, sodium bicarbonate, calcium carbonate), salt, mono- and diglycerides, ethoxylated mono-and diglycerides, lecithin, calcium propionate (to retain freshness), cellulose gum, natural and artificial flavors, fungal alpha amylase, amylase, maltogenic amylase, pentosanase, protease, sodium caseinate, corn maltodextrin, corn syrup solids and BHT (to help protect flavor). Raspberry filling also contains: Corn syrup, pectin, citric acid, proplylene glycol alginate, calcium carrageenan, potassium chloride, sodium benzoate (to retain freshness), Red 40, and Blue 1. Glaze may also contain: Calcium carbonate, agar, locust bean gum, disodium phosphate, and sorbitan monostearate.

38 posted on 12/10/2003 3:07:51 PM PST by TaxRelief (They say you are what you eat, so I guess I'm "fresh". Some other folks are "well-preserved".)
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To: TaxRelief
Somehow, instictively, I knew I was asking that question to the wrong person. LOL

Not that I eat horribly or an completely ignorant of nurtrition but I would go out on a limb and say I have eaten a estimated 1,768 (1 a week for 34 years, give or take) McDonalds cheeseburgers in my life. Now, that must have cumulative effect on a living organism. I just can't get myself all worked up over a flu shot, at this point.

40 posted on 12/10/2003 3:23:40 PM PST by riri
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