Food Labels Revealed will shed some light onto the sometimes mysterious and inscrutable food ingredients label , which is found on all processed food containers. What are all those chemicals in our packaged foods? Why are they there? Can they be harmful to our health? Think of this podcast as a little mini-course in food science. If you listen to all the episodes of the podcast, and who knows how many of them there will be, you will learn a great deal about the compositional and the nutritional properties of processed foods.
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Food Labels Revealed will shed some light onto the sometimes mysterious and inscrutable food ingredients label , which is found on all processed food containers. What are all those chemicals in our packaged foods? Why are they there? Can they be harmful to our health? Think of this podcast as a little mini-course in food science. If you listen to all the episodes of the podcast, and who knows how many of them there will be, you will learn a great deal about the compositional and the nutritional properties of processed foods.
INGREDIENTS OF THE DAY: None
Throughout both modern and ancient human history harmful ingredients, intentionally or unintentionally, have wound up in commercial foods. On the intentional side, that practice is called swindling or introducing improvements to make products better. Either way, the object is to make more money. On the unintentional side, the addition of poisons to foods is accidental. In this episode, a few examples of the former are examined taken from the early 20th century.
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Fast Food Ingredients Revealed: What Are You Eating? by Mel Weinstein
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References:
Scientific American: How a Chemist and His ‘Poison Squad’ Inspired the First Food Safety Regulations
https://tinyurl.com/27va3ke3
McGill University, Canada: A Carcinogen in Bread
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/carcinogen-bread
Consumer Reports: 5 Dangerous Ingredients That Are in Our Food but Shouldn't Be
https://tinyurl.com/222r9w37
National Institutes of Health: The Demise of Artificial Trans Fat: A History of a Public Health Achievement
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8452362/
Wikipedia: Pure Food and Drug Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Food_and_Drug_Act
Music:
Intro music is a clip from the "Peter Gunn Theme” by Henri Mancini.
Outro music is “Tears of a Clown” by AudioBinger.
Food Labels Revealed
Food Labels Revealed will shed some light onto the sometimes mysterious and inscrutable food ingredients label , which is found on all processed food containers. What are all those chemicals in our packaged foods? Why are they there? Can they be harmful to our health? Think of this podcast as a little mini-course in food science. If you listen to all the episodes of the podcast, and who knows how many of them there will be, you will learn a great deal about the compositional and the nutritional properties of processed foods.
