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LowIQTrash » Yesterday, 1:55 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 1:55 pm

This is useful but…why can’t ppl just look at a label or the ingredient list on the back?

O_O

A fairly common food ingredient that makes me wonder is propylene glycol [which is anti-freeze].
Antifreeze will attack your car's paint...yet we are told that PG is perfectly safe for consumption.
[maybe there are other active ingredients in AF that are at fault..?]

I think PG's use in food is to provide a better "mouth feel"    

Fear of food is also called cibophobia . It's a type of specific phobia, which is classified as an anxiety disorder. Having cibophobia means that you have a deep, irrational fear of food. This can be limited to certain foods or beverages, or it may include many foods.Jun 27, 2024

Do we really need more people standing around looking at their phones?

Sumela » Yesterday, 10:47 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 10:47 pm

Eat more ******

       

Cannonpointer » Today, 9:09 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 9:09 am

Yeah? Avoid them?

You think it's that easy?

What about milk? Heavy cream? Half and half?

You think carrageenan is safe? It isn't. But the FDA lets it in - and most major dairies use it to thicken their cream and assist it in thickening up, which allows them to stretch their product with more milk. Most would assume it is a harmless gum. The app educates consumers in the store, on the spot. 

Carrageenan is a natural, sulfated polysaccharide extracted from red seaweeds that's used in many products as a thickener, stabilizer, emulsifier, and gelling agent:

• Food: Found in chocolate milk, processed deli meats, vegan gelatin, desserts, ice cream, cream, milkshakes, yogurts, salad dressings, sweetened condensed milks, beer, and more
• Pharmaceuticals: Used as an inactive excipient in pills and tablets
• Cosmetics: Used as a thickener in shampoo and cosmetic creams
• Other: Used in toothpaste, air freshener gels, shoe polish, fire fighting foam, and more 

Carrageenan is also known as carrageen moss, Irish moss, and carraigin. 
Some concerns about the safety of carrageenan include:

• Inflammation: Carrageenan can activate the innate immune pathways of inflammation. 

• Digestive problems: Carrageenan may cause bloating and irritable bowel disease (IBD). 

• Allergic reactions: Some people may be allergic to carrageenan. 

• Bleeding: Carrageenan might increase the risk for bleeding during surgical procedures. 

• Ulcerative colitis: Carrageenan might increase the risk of relapse in people with ulcerative colitis. 

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved carrageenan for use, but some scientists believe it can be harmful.

seaweed's bad? wut?

*GHETTOBLASTER » Today, 1:12 pm » wrote: ↑

Today, 1:12 pm

A fairly common food ingredient that makes me wonder is propylene glycol [which is anti-freeze].
Antifreeze will attack your car's paint...yet we are told that PG is perfectly safe for consumption.
[maybe there are other active ingredients in AF that are at fault..?]

I think PG's use in food is to provide a better "mouth feel" 

sad part right there is in the advent of asthma inhalers, propylene glycol was used as a propellant...  

Fuelman » Today, 1:17 pm » wrote: ↑

Today, 1:17 pm

Fear of food is also called cibophobia . It's a type of specific phobia, which is classified as an anxiety disorder. Having cibophobia means that you have a deep, irrational fear of food. This can be limited to certain foods or beverages, or it may include many foods.Jun 27, 2024

Do we really need more people standing around looking at their phones?

while these bastards are standing around dying of nothing, at least I'll have died of something...  

ROG62 » 14 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

14 minutes ago

     

Smells like its loaded with Omega 3s  
 

Sumela » 7 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

7 minutes ago

Smells like its loaded with Omega 3s

always a "go to"...    
 

ROG62 » 12 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

12 minutes ago

always a "go to"...  

Heart health.  RFK JRs new mantra....

Live Longer, Eat More ******
 

Sumela » 31 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

31 minutes ago

Heart health.  RFK JRs new mantra....

Live Longer, Eat More ******

That, and promoting muscle tone..."he had the strongest tongue for a man of his age..."
 

ROG62 » Today, 6:38 pm » wrote: ↑

Today, 6:38 pm

That, and promoting muscle tone..."he had the strongest tongue for a man of his age..."

 
He and Gene...
 
 

Cannonpointer » 19 Nov 2024, 5:21 pm » wrote: ↑

19 Nov 2024, 5:21 pm

YUKA.

You just scan the bar code of any product you are thinking of buying, and YUKA will tell you every poison in that product. 

You don't just use the "score" of the product. For example, no corn chip or potato chip will have a great score, since they're loaded with fat and salt. But you knew that before you scanned it. What you are wanting to know is whether the chips have deadly additives - many do. If it says Frito, it does. 

So you get a smidge more granular by pushing a button and looking at the additive count, and then you get more granular still by looking at the individual additives and their risk factors. 

It sounds daunting, but it takes only seconds to confirm a good product, and a few seconds more to find out whether the additives are literally carcinogenic. 

YUKA. For the health and safety advice that your captive government agencies no longer enforce or provide.

Is this endorsed by RFKJr?  

Sumela » Today, 8:31 pm » wrote: ↑

Today, 8:31 pm

 
He and Gene...
 

The only thing better than that is a woman with one...  
 

Majik » Today, 10:56 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 10:56 am

It is a lot of work...but well worth it .....
and we don't do it alone ....and we also sell our goods to many locals in the area ...and also donate to the local food bank ...
as well as many various groups from the city with dietary restrictions...
there is a whole community of support that makes it possible ....

For almost a year, I had a connection to a local gas station that sells prepared food. They throw away an amazing amount of prepared food. They keep the warmer stocked, and just toss what doesn't sell every two hours. I knew the manager, and she would save it all for me, and I would give it to a couple of local farmers that I buy from, to slop their hogs. 

She is still with the company, but moved to another city. The new manager is more disposed to feed the rats at the dump than contribute to local farmers. 
 

Blackvegetable » Today, 12:39 pm » wrote: ↑

Today, 12:39 pm

**** idiot.
https://www.uhhospitals.org/blog/articles/2024/06/8-healthy-foods-that-are-risky-in-excess#:~:text=Broccoli%20%26%20Other%20Cruciferous%20Vegetables&text=However%2C%20they%20also%20contain%20chemical,Wolf.

What has this silly link to do with the conversation, you preposterous littlefoot?
 

ROG62 » Today, 5:43 pm » wrote: ↑

Today, 5:43 pm

seaweed's bad? wut?

No one said that seaweed is bad. There is a product they make in a laboratory using seaweed that is bad. It's called carrageenan. 
 
 

Str8tEdge » Today, 9:47 pm » wrote: ↑

Today, 9:47 pm

Is this endorsed by RFKJr?

I have not a doubt in the world that he would endorse it. 

I'm glad to see you paid your debt to society and are once again a free man.
 

Cannonpointer » 22 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

22 minutes ago

No one said that seaweed is bad. There is a product they make in a laboratory using seaweed that is bad. It's called carrageenan.

what's the seaweed for, filler?

ROG62 » 29 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

29 minutes ago

what's the seaweed for, filler?

I'm sure that the seaweed has the same properties which the product carrageenan also has. I mean, a lot of seaweed tends to be pretty gelatinous. But seaweed cannot be patented. Carrageenan can be patented, and is patented. 

Here's the thing. You have a select group of people called ethno-botanists. These are the mother **** who go to the amazon and indonesia and other tropical gardens to find plants that DO ****. And they bring these plants back, and then western science **** with them, patents the results, and sells a corrupted version of them to the american public. Coca - called yerba madre in the andes (the mother herb), allows human beings to carry an additional oxygen molecule in every red blood cell, when it is steeped as a tea and drunk, or when its leaves are chewed. This is what allows people in that region to live at altitude. Our chemists turned the coca leaf into many other things - cocaine among them. And it used to be in coca cola, until it was outlawed. 

Big pharma gets pretty much EVERYTHING from nature - and then it corrupts it, and then it peddles it. That's their business model. Big ag is just following suit. And it's not about what's good for you. It's about what's good for them. For their bottom line. You can go **** yourself. Better yet, you can pay them to **** ya. They're happy to oblige. 

I use the YUKA app to avoid as much of their **** as I can. I've shared it with you in case you'd like to do the same.