DID YOU KNOW?

Preservatives and Packaged Foods
By Pierre Mouchette | Bits-n-Pieces

Yes.  There are preservatives in almost all packaged foods, along with artificial colors, flavors, and other chemical ingredients designed to preserve the food, stop it from sticking together, falling apart, or going moldy, and make it more visually attractive.  Many of these additives can have unfavorable health effects. 

To have a healthy diet generally means avoiding additives.  These additives also have a disagreeable taste, which is apparent to those who only eat natural foods. But if you frequently eat packaged foods, you tend not to notice the flavor because you are so used to it. 

​The next time you are in the supermarket, read the labels of the foods you pick up.  You may be shocked.  If ingredients have numbers rather than words, you can be sure these are chemicals.  What could be so bad that a manufacturer would use a number to describe it rather than a word?