Sulphites in foods. Nutritional benefit: zero Known adverse effects: skin effects, migraines, gut reactions, asthma. Can be life threatening for some ppl. Differs from other known provoking agents (eg allergens) as it is ADDED to foods.
For example, were we to "delete" sulphites from our food shelves, we'd get rid of all dried fruit and a whole bunch of offshoot foods for an allergy that is quite rare
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If the “positive” they proport to bring to the food supply, outweighs the negative, then sure....it has a case to stay. Every tweet/statement ever written is “debateable”. Here we are offering “ideas” on “how to improve food supply to halt and reverse the dominance of P&P”
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P&P= processed and packaged.
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I have to agree with L here Gid. We don’t/can’t maybe never will know everything about food, ingredients, micronutrients, additives. History tells us we’ve been wrong before (IBS & FODMAPS a go to example) - we need to listen more - listening is science too.
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We may never know everything about every food etc, but we can make pretty definitive statements about some of the products we're talking about here. Banning products because of anecdotally-reported symptoms is a pretty dark road to walk
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Those affected by sulphites know to avoid, just like other components, and there are alternative products now. Having a reaction to sulphites is very unpleasant. What we need to do is revisit the the GRAS decisions & how the value of the b/g evidence.
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I am time-poor & away from desk/refs & will come back to this in few wks. A few comments for now. 1) additives not extensively tested B4 intro, only for cancer & mutagenic effects. 2) ppl w sulphite sensitivity do not always know & sulphites not easy to avoid. 1/-
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