Why do some FOODS contain so much crap?? Like sodium alginate (artificial flavourings)?

Question

Everytime i eat something like that, it makes me weary

Answer 1

Sodium alginate is a seaweed extract, its not really crap. Its used as a thickener, like carrageenan or cornflour. Are you eating a lot of low fat stuff? Its often used in that to make youghurt seem thick and creamy.
Switch to more wholefoods and stop eating so much processed stuff.

Answer 2

Because people persist in buying them. I'm personally getting really pissed about high-fructose corn syrup. My husband is diabetic and this crap is in EVERYTHING.

But Sodium alginate is not an artificial flavouring - it doesn't really have much of a taste. It's for texture.

Answer 3

Because people are to lazy to cook food fresh nowdays. Sodium makes food taste better, and is a preservative., so food lasts longer on the shelves. Also Chemicle flavourings are cheeper to produce than fresh ingreedients.

Answer 4

Processed foods contain colouring to make them look like real food, flavouring to make them taste like real food and preservatives so they keep for a long time. They usually also contain fat and sugar because these satisfy your taste and are cheaper than selling you food.

Try buying real ingredients and make your own.

Answer 5

To make it taste better or last longer.
I know what you mean, there is so much rubbish in our food, but with people always demanding cheaper/more convenient food then it's always going to go this way

Answer 6

Most ingredients are preservatives.
Natural food ingredients have short shelf life.

Answer 7

All preservatives for a long shelf life. I don't like it either.

Answer 8

to make its shelf life last longer (preserve)