5 Chemicals That Are In Most Everything You Eat – SciShow
Discover 5 key chemicals that we use to make our food taste the way it’s supposed to taste, look the way we expect it to look, and generally survive the journey to our tables intact.
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Sources:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/19…
http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPa…
http://www.webmd.com/diet/the-truth-a…
http://cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisin…
http://cspinet.org/new/201405071.html
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/indepth.foo…
http://web.archive.org/web/2006081813…
http://www.livestrong.com/article/288…
http://www.britannica.com/science/emu…
http://www.webmd.com/diet/the-truth-a…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic…
red dye #5
http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compo…
http://www.tfl.com/web/files/eubanazo…
http://www.livescience.com/35905-red-…
http://www.ddwcolor.com/colorant/caro…
xanthan gum
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts…
http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-…
http://www.ift.org/knowledge-center/r…
http://www.foodadditivesworld.com/sta…
carrageenan
http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y4765e/…
citric acid
http://kitchenscience.sci-toys.com/ox…
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/10-i…
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/8045/…
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajour…
http://www.drugs.com/inactive/citric-…
http://foodreference.about.com/od/Foo…
http://www.fgsc.net/asilomar/citric.html
sodium benzoate
http://www.fao.org/docrep/V5030e/V503…
http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIlln…
