The 7 Nastiest Things Lurking in Your Supermarket

[Big A]

Great article the puts together a lot of info in one place. I posted most of the article below, but if you use the link, there are a ton of very good info articles at this site.

http://www.hungryforchange.tv/article/the-7-nastiest-things-lurking-in-your-supermarket

THE 7 NASTIEST THINGS LURKING IN YOUR SUPERMARKET

By Judy Molland, Care 2

If you've watched the Food Matters or Hungry For Change films, you'll understand how important it is to read ingredient labels. So often, dubious food labelling regulations mean that many toxic or harmful ingredients are either not declared or are listed as another name!

If you think pink slime is awful, (which it is, of course), and that arsenic in baby food, cereal bars, rice and even chicken is an outrage, here are seven more nasty items lurking in your local supermarket.

Discover below the 7 nastiest ingredients found in commonly consumed food.

1. Flame-Retardant Sodas

The toxic flame retardant chemical brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, was first used to keep plastics from catching on fire. However, the food industry has been using it in sodas, juices and sports drinks to keep those artificial flavoring chemicals mixed in with the rest of the liquids. You’ll find it in drinks such as Mountain Dew, Fanta Orange, Sunkist Pineapple and Powerade.

BVO has been linked to skins lesions, memory loss, and nerve disorders.

2. Petroleum-Laced Candy

You’ve probably wondered if that candy with those wacky bright colors is good for you. It’s not. Many of the artificial food dyes found in everyday foods, including candy, are made from petroleum-derived materials. Kids love those “fun” colors in their cereal and candy, but food dyes are also used in hundreds of supermarket foods.

They are harmful: orange and purple food dyes have been shown to impair brain function, while other dyes have been linked to ADHD and behavioral problems in kids. Of course, companies don’t care because it’s cheaper for them to use those fake dyes than it is to use real ingredients.

3. Moldy Berries

Here’s a sobering fact: the FDA legally allows up to 60 percent of canned or frozen blackberries and raspberries to contain mold; 15 percent mold is the limit for canned fruit and vegetable juices.

It’s true that it’s perfectly fine to eat some food when it starts to grow mold, but you should toss soft fruits and vegetables, since they may have mold growing below the surface. Also, because mold spreads quickly in fruits and vegetables, check nearby foods in your produce drawer.

4. Salade Verte With Paint Chemicals

Perhaps you didn’t know that your salad dressing may well contain titanium dioxide, which is a component of titanium, a mined substance that is sometimes contaminated with toxic lead.

This chemical is widely used in paints and sunscreens, but Big Food also adds it to lots of things we eat, including processed salad dressing. They do this to to make dingy, overly processed items, like your salad dressing, appear brighter and whiter.

5. Hormone-Heavy Milk

Ah, the wonders of modern technology: today’s cows produce double the amount of milk they did just 40 years ago, and that’s mostly because of a genetically engineered, synthetic hormone called recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST, that helps them along.

This synthetic hormone is banned in many other countries because it has been linked to prostate, breast and colon cancers. However, it is still legal here, although many dairies are being pressured to abandon it.

6. Meat Laced With Flesh-Eating Bacteria

MRSA kills about 19,000 people a year in America.

7. Toxic shrimp

Imported shrimp is on the Monterey Bay’s Seafood Watch List as “Avoid” at all costs. Less than two percent of all imported seafood is inspected, which is a huge problem.

As a result, imported shrimp often contains antibiotics, cleaning chemicals used in farmed shrimp pens, residues of toxic pesticides banned in the U.S., and pieces of insects.

[Panthro]

canned mushrooms might be the worst

 

 

 

 

[Big A]

canned mushrooms might be the worst

Just read something recently about that too

Gross Food #1: Mushrooms

Why it’s gross: The FDA legally allows 19 maggots—tiny, rice-shaped fly larvae that feast on rotting foods—and 74 mites in every 3.5-ounce can of mushrooms. Bon appetit!

Why it’s bad: While maggots do have their place in the medical world—they can help heal ulcers and other wounds—most of us would agree that they don’t have a place in our mouths. Opt for fresh mushrooms instead, and if you need another reason to ditch canned goods, consider this: Most are lined with bisphenol A (or BPA), a plastic chemical that causes unnatural hormonal changes linked to heart attacks, obesity, and certain cancers.

And for the full list of dangerous and disgusting ingredients lurking on your grocery store’s shelves, check out The 15 Grossest Things You’re Eating.

[Jangler]

8. taint fans

[Big A]

It's kinda amazing how much bad stuff is in most of the common food products, but even more surprising is how all the info is out there and most of the general public just doesn't really seem to care that much. Most of the foods are actually food products and have a goal of making you buy more, not providing you an actual nutritional meal. I don't eat anything processed, and a tiny amount of things that already prepared and packaged. At the same time, I spend hours a day between juicing and preparing meals and spend over $2k a month just at whole foods, but the average person doesn't have that time and money, isn't the Goverment supposed to be looking out for us and keeping poison out our food!?

[Brooklyn Bully]

90% of anything made in the store "deli/bakery".

[Ja Rhule]

I grew up in 3rd world country... U call maggots gross, we call maggots extra protein.

[TNPanther]

I grew up in 3rd world country... U call maggots gross, we call maggots extra protein.

In New Orleans maggots are considered dessert

[OneBadCat]

This sort of reeks of BS.

[Jangler]

This sort of reeks of BS.

 

Then I wouldn't eat whatever you fixed.

[Anybodyhome]

In New Orleans maggots are considered dessert

 

In New Orleans maggots are considered "Saints."

 

Fixed that for ya.........

 

[Guest]

This sort of reeks of BS.

This line makes me wonder a little too:  titanium dioxide, which is a component of titanium

[Herbert The Love Bug]

If alice was in my grocery store I'd list him as the #1 nastiest thing lurking there

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[cardiackat88.]

I eat a lot of mushrooms god damn you all!!