Is it safe to eat PRESERVATIVES that are often found in foods?

Question

I am asking this question b/c I get a minor headache when I eat some foods with preservatives. Also, I usually experience a similar minor headache when I eat foods with MSG (mono-sodium-glutamate).

Answer 1

My understanding is perfectly intact, sound, and complete. Mr. Forkyou is flat wrong, programmed for and by profit minded corporations. It is of no consequence to me that he is delusional, but it is wrong that he has disseminated incorrect information that could affect some innocent person. Therefore I must rectify things.

Real salt does not come out of a test tube. It is a natural substance, and is essential. It has dozens of minerals that feed you. The pathetic addition of iodine to processed salt after it is rendered into a denuded anti-nutrient is at best a joke. That salt is flat dangerous to your health. Read the ingredients on your salt label. Why do food producers have such a psychotic need to alter or destroy what nature creates? It's as if they can't bear to let us find out, that we can not only live without them and their profitable companies, but would be infinitely better off without them.

Get sea salt or any natural unprocessed salt folks, it's actually good for you. The poison in the round cardboard with handy pour spout is an assault on your body.

Laboratories can chemically reconstruct many natural things, but they fail miserably at mimicking nature and cannot reproduce the full health benefits inherent in natural sources of nutrition. Every day more research is being published that bears this out.

Mr. Forkyou seems to believe there is no difference between artificially manufactured chemicals and the chemicals made by nature. How obtuse. One is natural, the other is not. That makes them different. What kind of naivety (or arrogance) does it take to believe that what human beings manufacture is equal to what nature creates? He would have us believe that a few decades of white men in white coats have attained such magnificence that they know better than nature itself about life's complex chemical processes and how to define "healthy". Let's compare track records. Nature produced a thriving healthy planet teeming with life forms that it also nourishes. It wastes nothing, and does not pollute. Nature also recycles everything. Science plus business are so brilliant they've nearly destroyed everything nature created. Right, some white dudes with some big ol' smarty pants college degrees and a few test tubes are more qualified than nature to feed our bodies (and get rich doing it). And we should trust them. Delusional.

People have indeed been finding ways to extend the life of their foods for millennia, but they were perfectly able to do it without artificial chemicals or laboratories or Monsanto. Nature provides many ways to achieve food preservation without shoving carcinogens down your throat.

Yes, beef is aged. And? Forky perhaps missed the gist of the paragraph. It is about fresh being better than not fresh. Poultry is never "aged", nor is fish, nor are eggs. There are more beasts than moo cows. He brought this up because…?

Dozens of additives are put into foods because processing removes every last bit of living nutrition. It is arrogant and naive to see this as a favor being done for you. In fact if industry did not attempt to re-inject a few of the same handful of artificially created "vitamins" back into foods they would have no nutritional value whatsoever, and the evidence of ill health would be immediate and obvious. They do this only for themselves and to try to downplay the fact that they've destroyed your food. Then they have the nerve to suggest it's healthy and extra special now. People cannot deflect mental conditioning, and with repetition and constant exposure, they eventually accept the heinous as if it were normal. If you think 'natural' is weird or in some way dubious, they've won, I rest my case. Hail advertising, how rich it has made them at your expense.

Most chemical additives are by no means healthy, they are a threat to human health.
This is the talk of the proponents of the food additives industries, who earn vast fortunes at the expense of the health of Americans. They don't eat their own foods, but they sure want you to. The plastics and in-edibles you ingest unknowingly every day, every time you eat their frankenfoods, those are good for you! Chemicals are healthy! A little carcinogen won't hurt you, don't be silly. It's wholesome and nutritious! If this stuff wasn't making them filthy rich do you think they'd do it?

The modern 'miracles' of profitable science are no substitute for common sense.

Answer 2

Safe is a relative term. It's safe as in having been tested by the FDA (or equivalent government agency in other countries). They've done extensive testing to determine what level of specific preservatives may be harmful to humans, and food companies must prove that they are within those limits.

Then there's a whole organic movement that claims all additives and preservatives are harmful. There is a great deal of research on both sides of the issue. I tend to think that tiny amounts of lethal poisons in our food is probably "relatively safe" but not completely safe. You should do your own research and reach conclusions that are acceptable to your lifestyle.

Answer 3

It is according to the FDA...but, oh, they are the ones who also keep approving toxic drugs, food additives, red food color (carmine) made from dead beatles, cloned meat, rat hairs allowed in peanut butter, and a whole host of other nonsense. If it preserves the food, its going to preserve your intestines, and not in a good way. Food additives should be outlawed. I healed from a 12 year crippling illness by giving up the nasty stuff in foods. I am perfectly fine as long as I eat wholesome, fresh foods.

Answer 4

Can lead to problems in the long run!

Answer 5

no the preservative sound in beef jerkey in the little packs are a chemical that obsorbs oxygen,if swalowed you will die

Answer 6

I wouldn't eat them on their own.

Answer 7

not in the long run it could cause cancer, high blood pressure and etc

Answer 8

Long term may cause cancer.

Answer 9

not really