AVOID THIS LIST OF INGREDIENTS
Please read the ingredient list BEFORE purchasing an item.
If one of these is listed - put the item down.
BHA / BHT
Used to keep food on shelves longer- vitamin E has the same properties
MSG
CARAMEL COLOR
ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS
Linked to type 2 diabetes, 700 times sweeter than natural sugar, making you crave more and loading you up with chemicals
Acesulfame Potassium is a food additive used for sweetening
Aspartame is a sweeter 200 times sweeter than sugar
TRANS FATS
SUGAR
Changes metabolism, raises blood pressure, alters hormones, damage to liver, etc. One type of sugar is Sucralose- chlorinated sugar!
There is sugar in everything! There are 56 different names for sugar that are listed on ingredient lists. Here are some + anything ending in ‘ose’ signifies it is a sugar:
Fructose, Corn Syrup, Agave, molasses, syrup, cane sugar, fruit juice concentrate
SODIUM NITRATE / NITRITE
Preserve shelf life but mixed with stomach acids potential growth for cancer cells
FOOD COLORINGS
RED #3, RED #40, YELLOW #5 etc- linked with cancer, tumors
ENRICHED WHEAT
Nutrients are stripped and then re-added not nearly enough as was naturally contained in the food
HYDROGENATED OR FRACTIONATED OILS
Fractionating oil is a process most often used on palm and palm kernel oil that involves heating the oil, then cooling it quickly so that it breaks up into fractions (hence the name). The key thing is that the filtration process separates out most of the liquid part of the oil, leaving a high concentration of solid unhealthy fat behind which is terribly toxic for human consumption.
Hydrogenated oils are oils that are often healthy in their natural state, but are quickly turned into poisons through the manufacturing and processing they undergo. They take these naturally healthy oils such as palm, kernel, soybean, corn oil, canola oil or coconut oil and they heat it anywhere from five hundred to one thousand degrees. They then become fantastic preservatives because all the enzymatic activity in the oil has been neutralized during the hydrogenating process. Hydrogenated oils are the closest thing you can get to plastic sludge running through your body. If you see “hydrogenated” anywhere on an ingredient list, run like the wind.
CANOLA OIL
FOUND IN EVERYTHING! This oil is poisonous to living things. It is a genetically modified plant designed through intensive breeding and genetic engineering techniques. The Canadian government paid the FDA 50 million dollars to have canola oil placed on the generally recognized as safe list. It is extremely hard to find products that do not contain this oil- but there are canola free products out there!
GELATIN
A protein derived from the collagen in animal bones, skins, tissues. Used as a thickening agent and can be found in candies. Many red candies contain a dye made from extracts of dried bodies of cacti bugs (listed as carmine, cochineal or carminic acid under ingredients) And if that wasn’t too much this will be: castoreum, a food flavoring, is derived from a beavers’ anal secretions. Yup that’s right- we use a beaver’s shit to flavor our food- found under “natural flavoring” under ingredients. Mostly used as a vanilla substitutes.