Product Description

FOOD ADDITIVES: A Shopper's Guide To What's Safe & What's Not reveals what food manufacturers don't want you to know about their products. It shows you how to find the truth behind deceptive food packaging. You will learn how to confidently read labels so that you will know how healthy a food really is and if it contains dangerous ingredients.

This book classifies over 1000 commonly used food additives according to safety, whether they may cause allergic reactions, and if they are Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) by the FDA. In just seconds, the average person can determine if the food they're buying contains dangerous substances. The book is clear, concise and easy to use.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48601 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-28
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
This book is fabulous and every one should not only read it but carry it with them when they shop. --Chelsea Thompson

This is a nice compact reference for all the times you are shopping and wonder what those mysterious ingredients are in your foods. The reference tells you which ones are safe and which ones will be harmful... An easy way to get educated while you shop or looking through your food pantry to make sure you consume what is safe. --Lisa Jeanne, Walpole, Ma

This little book should be in every food buyer's possession. I highly recommend it. Anyone who takes the responsibility of buying food ... should have this book as a guide. It gives the bottom line of what many of the common chemicals that are used in the processing of our foods do to our bodies. You don't have to be a PhD to understand what's spelled out so well in this pocket size book, you only have to have the courage to follow its inherent message and be well on your way to being healthy again. --Razel

Lendon H. Smith, M.D., Author of Feed Your Kids Right
"I recommend everyone carry this with them in their purse or glove, compartment for handy reference."

Brenda L. Johnson
I'm a graduate student in Nutrition and have found your booklet most helpful compared to others that aI've used."

Customer Reviews

Decent resource especially for price
This is a convenient resource to use while shopping, and generally has listed most ingredients that I have referenced. So far, I came across one ingredient (listed in Shop Rite fresh bread) that was not listed (mononitrate, and I just used the listing for "nitrates".

Excellent handbook resource
This is a practical handbook for the layperson and as well, the health professional to use while shopping and teaching others factual data of what is in the food items they are purchasing. This book has a simple approach and easy to carry size making it a good choice. The alert to the label designation of genetically modified '8' on fresh produce is a valuable community service. Thank you Christine for the tip on 'salted fish' being a carcinogen. This is entirely true! The fish lie is exposed in my ebook 'There's Fishy Business Going On' for the public review. Thank you Christine for your public service, I do recommend this useful book for others.

Very helpful
I find this very handy for checking out food labels and the small size makes it easy to carry.