Popular Snacks Are Linked to Cancer
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Popular Snacks Are Linked to Cancer
FROM: http://massreport.com/popular-snacks-ar ... to-cancer/
Josh Paniagua, November 17, 2014, Food, Government, Health, Food, Government, Health, 0
When I found out the ingredients in Pringles potato chips, I was lost for a reason they were called “potato chips” at all. Only about 42% of each chip is actually potato, which has lead to the folks at Pringles to admit that their products aren’t technically potato chips at all.
Ingredients for Pringles chips vary by flavor. So let’s take a look at one of their more popular flavors Sour Cream and Onion.
Ingredients: dried potatoes, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: corn oil cottonseed oil, soybean oil, and/or sunflower oil), corn flour, wheat starch and maltodextrin. Contains 2% or less of: rice flour, salt, whey, dextrose, cocnut oil, monosodium glutamate, onion powder, sugar, nonfat milk, sour cream (cream, nonfat milk, cultures), cultured nonfat milk, natural flavors, buttermilk, sweet cream, citric acid, lactic acid, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, sodium caseinate, invert sugar, malic acid, and yeast extract.
Wow. Those are a lot of things that aren’t potatoes. The list of varying ingredients goes on and on. But the biggest health concern when it comes to potato chips isn’t quite where one would think.
When exposed to high temperatures, potatoes (as well as other foods high in carbohydrates) emit a toxic chemical called acrylamide. Acrylamide is known to promote tumor growth. This isn’t a chemical that has been kept a secret. There are in fact federal regulations setting the safety threshold for acrylamide in drinking water to 0.5 parts per billion. Now despite my personal distrust for the FDA, their regulations speak volumes on the danger of acrylamide levels in many foods. Let’s look at some. Keep in mind. The FDA’s safety limit is 0.5ppb.
Gerber Finger Foods Biter Biscuits (baby food): 130ppb
Gerber Tender Harvest Organic Sweet Potatoes: (baby food) 121ppb
Nabisco Arrowroot Biscuit (baby food): 113ppb
Burger King French fries: 369ppb
McDonald’s French fries: 497ppb
Popeye’s French fries: 1030ppb
Ore Ida Golden Fries: 1098
Lamb Weston Inland Valley Fajita Fries: 1325ppb
Lay’s Classic Potato Chips: 250-550ppb
Kettle Chips Lightly Salted Natural Gourmet Potato Chips: 1265ppb
Baked! Lay’s Original Naturally Baked Potato Crisps: 1096ppb
Route 11 Sweet Potato Chips: 2762ppb
Boca Burgers Grilled Begetable burgers: 116ppb
General Mills Cheerios: 266ppb
General Mills Honey Nut Cheerios: 146ppb
Kellogg’s Raisin Bran: 156ppb
Blue Diamond Roasted Saluted Almonds: 236ppb
Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds: 457ppb
Planters Smoked Almonds: 339ppb
Dare Breton Thin Wheat Crackers: 300ppb
Wasa Original Crispbread Fiber Rye: 504ppb
Hershey’s Cocoa: 909ppb
Pretty disturbing if you ask me. What I find even more unsettling is that these statistics were pulled directly off the FDA’s website! If this chemical is unsafe, used widely in excess, and the FDA is aware of it. Where is the action taken here? The FDA is supposed to make sure harmful substances AREN’T put in our food. Not to tell us they are on obscure stat boards.
With the FDA sitting with their heads in a “dark place”, the state of California took action in 2005 and filed lawsuits against PepsiCo (Lay’s), Proctor & Gamble (Pringles), Lance Inc, and Kettle Foods Inc (Kettle Chips). The case was settled in 2008 after Frito-Lay and several other companies agreed to lower levels of acrylamide in their products to 275ppb. Unfortunately for the people, that’s low enough to avoid a cancer warning label, but not low enough to not cause cancer.
Sources:
mercola.com
fda.gov
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FROM: http://massreport.com/popular-snacks-ar ... to-cancer/
Josh Paniagua, November 17, 2014, Food, Government, Health, Food, Government, Health, 0
When I found out the ingredients in Pringles potato chips, I was lost for a reason they were called “potato chips” at all. Only about 42% of each chip is actually potato, which has lead to the folks at Pringles to admit that their products aren’t technically potato chips at all.
Ingredients for Pringles chips vary by flavor. So let’s take a look at one of their more popular flavors Sour Cream and Onion.
Ingredients: dried potatoes, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: corn oil cottonseed oil, soybean oil, and/or sunflower oil), corn flour, wheat starch and maltodextrin. Contains 2% or less of: rice flour, salt, whey, dextrose, cocnut oil, monosodium glutamate, onion powder, sugar, nonfat milk, sour cream (cream, nonfat milk, cultures), cultured nonfat milk, natural flavors, buttermilk, sweet cream, citric acid, lactic acid, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, sodium caseinate, invert sugar, malic acid, and yeast extract.
Wow. Those are a lot of things that aren’t potatoes. The list of varying ingredients goes on and on. But the biggest health concern when it comes to potato chips isn’t quite where one would think.
When exposed to high temperatures, potatoes (as well as other foods high in carbohydrates) emit a toxic chemical called acrylamide. Acrylamide is known to promote tumor growth. This isn’t a chemical that has been kept a secret. There are in fact federal regulations setting the safety threshold for acrylamide in drinking water to 0.5 parts per billion. Now despite my personal distrust for the FDA, their regulations speak volumes on the danger of acrylamide levels in many foods. Let’s look at some. Keep in mind. The FDA’s safety limit is 0.5ppb.
Gerber Finger Foods Biter Biscuits (baby food): 130ppb
Gerber Tender Harvest Organic Sweet Potatoes: (baby food) 121ppb
Nabisco Arrowroot Biscuit (baby food): 113ppb
Burger King French fries: 369ppb
McDonald’s French fries: 497ppb
Popeye’s French fries: 1030ppb
Ore Ida Golden Fries: 1098
Lamb Weston Inland Valley Fajita Fries: 1325ppb
Lay’s Classic Potato Chips: 250-550ppb
Kettle Chips Lightly Salted Natural Gourmet Potato Chips: 1265ppb
Baked! Lay’s Original Naturally Baked Potato Crisps: 1096ppb
Route 11 Sweet Potato Chips: 2762ppb
Boca Burgers Grilled Begetable burgers: 116ppb
General Mills Cheerios: 266ppb
General Mills Honey Nut Cheerios: 146ppb
Kellogg’s Raisin Bran: 156ppb
Blue Diamond Roasted Saluted Almonds: 236ppb
Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds: 457ppb
Planters Smoked Almonds: 339ppb
Dare Breton Thin Wheat Crackers: 300ppb
Wasa Original Crispbread Fiber Rye: 504ppb
Hershey’s Cocoa: 909ppb
Pretty disturbing if you ask me. What I find even more unsettling is that these statistics were pulled directly off the FDA’s website! If this chemical is unsafe, used widely in excess, and the FDA is aware of it. Where is the action taken here? The FDA is supposed to make sure harmful substances AREN’T put in our food. Not to tell us they are on obscure stat boards.
With the FDA sitting with their heads in a “dark place”, the state of California took action in 2005 and filed lawsuits against PepsiCo (Lay’s), Proctor & Gamble (Pringles), Lance Inc, and Kettle Foods Inc (Kettle Chips). The case was settled in 2008 after Frito-Lay and several other companies agreed to lower levels of acrylamide in their products to 275ppb. Unfortunately for the people, that’s low enough to avoid a cancer warning label, but not low enough to not cause cancer.
Sources:
mercola.com
fda.gov
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