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Eating Poison Everyday: Fake Food 1
Are you eating “food”?
Looks like it, smells like it, and tastes like it, but
it is actually “fake food” made from a whole bunch of chemical ingredients.
Tsukasa Abe from Japan was a top salesman for a food additives
company. He helped the food processing factories to use the “cheapest”
ingredients to produce the “popular” food products.
One day, he was horrified to see his daughter eating the
fake meatballs he produced, then he realized: His family are also the consumers
of the fake foods he produced, and he felt remorse deeply.
He quitted his food addictives job, using his
experience over the years, telling the public about the truths behind the processed
foods……
1) Fake Meat Ball
He turned the
slimy, tasteless, cheap “meat scraps” into edible
stuff.
To produce the soft texture, soy protein
is added
To produce
smooth & tender texture, lard & processed
starch are added
To produce good
taste, tons of chemical
flavorings are added
To produce good
colour, colourant is added
To prevent &
treat the colour fading, anti-oxidant is added
To allow mass
production by machine, adhesive & emulsifier are added
To extend the
preservation period, preservatives & pH adjusting
agent are added
--- During the
whole process, 20-30 types of food additives are added, the meat ball can be
called as “food additives
in meat ball shape”.
2) Fake Lemon
Juice
Yellow #4 ( made from
petroleum ) is added to the carbonated
water to produce the beautiful lemon colour.
Synthetic lemon flavouring is added.
Sour agent & High-fructose
corn syrup are added ( real sugar is
not used because it is more expensive ),
to produce the sour & sweet taste.
Synthetic vitamin C is added ( then can claim that it contains
vitamin C from 50 lemons )
Fibre powder ( made from “saw
dust” ) is
added.
Note: The so called “natural”
orange colouring is actually the bugs extract, and the “natural” green
colouring is actually the excrement of silkworms.
* Fo more info, please
read the books written by Tsukasa Abe, or refer to the following website:
Tsukasa Abe --- “Fake Salmon Eggs” demo ( Chinese caption )
Tsukasa Abe --- “Fake Juice” demo ( Malay caption )
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Compiled & Written: Hui-Zhi ( U-turn of Creation ) originally released on 2013.7.2
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Eating
Poison Everyday: Fake Food 2
About 800 types of food additives are hidden in those
processed foods in the market that look good, smell good & taste good……
Food additives: They don’t exist
in the natural foods, they are added for certain purposes; Oftentimes they are
even used as substitution for the real food ingredients.
17 types of food additives ( about
800 additives ):
1.Preservative 2.Bactericide
3.Antioxidant 4.Bleaching agent 5.Color fasting agent 6.Leavening agent 7.Quality improvement, distillery & food stuff
processing agent 8.Nutritional enriching
agent 9.Colouring agent
10.Flavoring agent 11.Seasoning agent
12.Pasting agent 13.Coagulating agent 14.Chemicals for food industry
15.Dissolving agent(Solvent) 16.Emulsifier 17.Others
For the thin rice noodles to be
white & cheap, Corn Starch that is added with Bleaching agent is used, and Binding agent is added to create stickiness…..
For the breads, buns & biscuits to be soft &
yummy, Emulsifier, Quality improvement agent, Leavening agent & Flavouring agent are added……
For soymilk & tofu, in order
to prevent the foam from spilling out during cooking, Antifoaming agent is added; in order to prevent
spoiling, Preservatives
& Bactericides are
added……
In order for the hotdog, ham
& roast duck to stay in the room temperature and look bright red, Colour fasting agent & Nitrites are added……
Food additives
can bring serious harms
Artificial colouring agent ( such as Yellow #4 ,5 & 6;
Red #2, 3, 40 ): Can cause cancer, tumor, urticaria, asthma, allergic,
learning & concentration disorder……
Sulfite: A bleaching agent, can cause urticaria,
asthma, diarrhea, vomiting......
Borax: Make food elastic, can cause vomiting,
diarrhea, weakness, skin erythema, atrophy of the kidney......
Formaldehyde:
A preservative, can cause cancer, headache, dizziness, vomiting,
dyspnea, Inhibition of digestive function, damaged eyes, urticaria, asthma,
diarrhea......
Butylated Hydroxy Anisole (BHA):
An antioxidant, can cause cancer……
InGREEDients
Twinkie vs. Carrot
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Twinkies’
37-40 ingredients ( mostly synthetic ):
Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour [Flour,
Reduced Iron, B Vitamins (Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate (B1), Riboflavin (B2),
Folic Acid)], Corn Syrup, Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Water, Partially
Hydrogenated Vegetable and/or Animal Shortening (Soybean, Cottonseed and/or
Canola Oil, Beef Fat), Whole Eggs, Dextrose. Contains 2% or Less of: Modified
Corn Starch, Glucose, Leavenings (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Baking Soda,
Monocalcium Phosphate), Sweet Dairy Whey, Soy Protein Isolate, Calcium and
Sodium Caseinate, Salt, Mono and Diglycerides, Polysorbate 60, Soy Lecithin,
Soy Flour, Cornstarch, Cellulose Gum, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Natural and
Artificial Flavors, Sorbic Acid (to Retain Freshness), Yellow 5, Red 40.
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Twinkie’s cream gets its smooth feel
from “Cellulose Gum”, which serves the same purpose in “rocket fuel”.
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Compiled & Written: Hui-Zhi ( U-turn of Creation ) originally released on 2013.7.17
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Eating Poison Everyday: Fake Food 3
You deserve to eat safe and healthy “real food”.
Sweet Killer: Aspartame
Aspartame is a common artificial sweetener, used in
Diet Coke/Pepsi & many processed foods, it is related to: cancer, brain tumour, dizziness, headache, loss of memory, blindness, neurotoxin,
epilepsy, weight gain, irregular menses, damage the babies’ metabolism......
Cheap Foods
are not Cheap
Because artificial food can be mass produced by using cheap chemical ingredients, the price could be cheaper at
the first glance, but actually it has caused the increase in health care expenses.
In the 1960’s, the average American spent 18% of their
incomes on foods, and only used 5% of the national incomes on medical care; now
they only spend 9.9% of their incomes on foods, but the medical care expenses
has gone up to 16%!
How to avoid
Food Additives
I can give you a list of food
additives for you to check against the food labels at the supermarkets, but
this will probably ended in two results:
1) You might be having headache to go through the
names.
2) Additives are everywhere, you will find that
there are really not many food products out there that are safe to purchase.
Don’t be so quick to purchase
food with label indicating terms such as “no preservatives”, ”no colourings”,
because this may not necessarily mean that food does not contain 10 over other
food additives.
Food manufacturers may not be
honestly listing out all ingredients, many bad ingredients are anonymous & hidden.
--- Therefore,
the simplest and safest way, is switching your diet to organic foods.
“I'll say it again: organic
food is not a luxury - it's how food is supposed to be.”
--- BFA Nutritionist Shane Heaton
Comparing with the “non-organic”
conventional foods that use 800 over types of chemical ingredients, Organic food standards permit only a limited list of around
40 mostly natural additives, which are allowed in
organic foods only if they don't compromise the authenticity of the product, and the product can't be produced or
preserved without them.
There are many non-profit organic food
organizations that
really care about consumers’ safety overseeing the ingredients used in organic foods.
Try to buy raw food that requires
less processing.
* Compiled & Written: Hui-Zhi ( U-turn of Creation )
originally released on 2013.8.10
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