There is always a tiny proportion of the population who will have an extreme reaction to any food product, but by that logic we should ban virtually all foods aside from plain rice and water from our supermarket shelves
Lol fair enough. I do find it frustrating that every time "processed" food is discussed the conversation centres around additives that have very well-known safety profiles (i.e. sulphites and MSG) rather than real issues like high caloric content and low nutritional profile
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I know a whole bunch of people who were convinced by the MSG scare in the 90s that they were allergic, only to find out years later that actually it was something else in their diet after doing a proper exclusion/inclusion test. Ditto with sulphites
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Additives, and acceptance of additives is part of our “processed food acceptance” culture. Agree, small fry cf our growing dependence on ready made, but still a worthwhile contribution. What I’ve found works n.....
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It's not the additives - it's the foods they make possible.
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That’s true too. What I’ve found in advocacy and getting change is you don’t always target the “actual thing” but rather the “thing that makes it possible”. For eg. Being a proponent for “social justice” gets you not very far - however....
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