Cringe! Even the smell of aromat makes me
Fresh food prepared and cooked well trumps any darn flavour enhancers.
*ponders what KFC's secret spice contains..* Ever notice the orange tint to it?
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Cringe! Even the smell of aromat makes me
Fresh food prepared and cooked well trumps any darn flavour enhancers.
*ponders what KFC's secret spice contains..* Ever notice the orange tint to it?
Chicken Boo
Senior Member
tert-Butylhydroquinone goes well with a packet of crisps 
Seriously... you wonder how anything containing oil was sold a decade ago... I challenge people to see how many products they can find that contain vegetable oil but DON't contain TBHQ.
Seriously... you wonder how anything containing oil was sold a decade ago... I challenge people to see how many products they can find that contain vegetable oil but DON't contain TBHQ.
blunomore
Honorary Master
If you're to believe the paranoia here, you should be clinically dead
Are you saying Aromat is bad for us ?
Never knew ! I love the chili flavoured on cheese sandwiches.
murraybiscuit
Executive Member
remind me what the risks of non-nutritive sweeteners such as aspartame and acesulfame are?
i'm talking about clinical proof here, with decent sample sizes conducted over decent periods of time, using established scientific methods.
why, after 20 odd years are these ingredients still being sold?
surely if they were linked to cancer, there would have been plenty of law suits in the USA and we'd have warning labels all over our soda cans, like cigarettes?
i'm not saying we should all have a spoonful of aspartame to start the day, i'm just wondering why we're still all so worried about it?
i'm talking about clinical proof here, with decent sample sizes conducted over decent periods of time, using established scientific methods.
why, after 20 odd years are these ingredients still being sold?
surely if they were linked to cancer, there would have been plenty of law suits in the USA and we'd have warning labels all over our soda cans, like cigarettes?
i'm not saying we should all have a spoonful of aspartame to start the day, i'm just wondering why we're still all so worried about it?
blunomore
Honorary Master
Just a general remark from me:
I used to get worried at times about all the 'poison' in our foods, but generally speaking, I have GIVEN UP trying to make sense of what is good and what not !
Example: It drives me to the point of distraction when I read that today coffee is not that bad (may even have some ingredient that protects you against disease xyz, only to read tomorrow that it is the work of the devil and must be avoided at all costs !!
This goes for many other foods / ingredients / preservatives/ whatnots.
No sane person can say that they know exactly what to eat and what not.
So I try to do the fruit and veg and white meat and only a little bit of alcohol and very litle bad fats thing and BUGGER the rest !
murraybiscuit
Executive Member
Just a general remark from me:
I used to get worried at times about all the 'poison' in our foods, but generally speaking, I have GIVEN UP trying to make sense of what is good and what not !
Example: It drives me to the point of distraction when I read that today coffee is not that bad (may even have some ingredient that protects you against disease xyz, only to read tomorrow that it is the work of the devil and must be avoided at all costs !!
This goes for many other foods / ingredients / preservatives/ whatnots.
No sane person can say that they know exactly what to eat and what not.
So I try to do the fruit and veg and white meat and only a little bit of alcohol and very litle bad fats thing and BUGGER the rest !
+1.
and the odd minute steak, nudge nudge
blunomore
Honorary Master
+1.
and the odd minute steak, nudge nudge
He he, that too
I still have a few pieces of that steak left in the fridge, but the craving is over now.
soldierboi
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I am becoming more and more conscious of this
I bought a huge bag of Checkers choice muesli and the stuff basically looks frosted with sugar, which I think is the preservative sodium
Lol a vegetarian lycanthropist
A veggie lycanthropist - haha!! That FunnY!
Had friends told me its causes cancer
Well, as someone said earlier, tomatoes have MSG in them. Yet, tomatoes are known for their cancer fighting properties. Logic FAIL. Some people believe everything they read.
Your friends should throw away their cellphones and microwaves, those are said to cause cancer as well...
haha thats why when they tell me things now I demand the URL
Reminds me of the e-mail that went around about KFC's headless, featherless, footless chickens fed with tubes. People that gullible shouldn't be let loose on the Internet.
thats something I must look into, wouldn't put it past the Americans though...
I've met some people who make that seem entirely possible.
blunomore
Honorary Master
Apparently that is only when they are cooked / heated.
I think the problem with the whole aspartame story is, who do you believe. The corporations which are making billions off it, or the
self funded/poorly funded lab rats(Not for sensitive viewers). An interesting documentary for those guys who enjoy
them about aspartame is "Aspartame - Sweet Misery a poisoned world". Goes into how it got pushed through the FDA for approvals etc, then into mass production.
There is also some suggestion that when aspartame metabolizes in your body it breaks down to form formaldehyde and formic acid (That ZING you get after eating a
handful of red ants). There is also a good possibility that formaldehyde is a carcinogen.
As for aspartame not being on warning labels, i think it is not simply cos the corporations would loose a train load of money, just like the cigarette companies did.
And when it comes to a company's profit being threatened, they tend to favor and fund studies that show their product is not harmful etc.
It is the consumers that need to wake up and question these things. Problem I think it has been questioned way too much, and people just dont care anymore,
therefore profits stay the same. The reason I dont feel comfortable with eating all this sweetener junk is that I'd rather have sugar, where I at
least have an eye dear where it came from, apart from a chemical made in a lab.
Also would rather take the safe route on things that studies that say "Linked to cancer/ caused cancer in bushmen/ wiped out ancient aztecs", and stay
the far away.
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