E for Additives. Maurice Hanssen
Plus another antioxidant preservative not used in the UK
| TBHQ | (Monotertiary butylhydroxylquinone) |
Additives which are either dangerous to asthmatics or aspirin-sensitive people, and could reasonably be added to the HACSG listing, or should not be used in food intended for babies or young children are:
| E212 | Potassium benzoate |
| E213 | Calcium benzoate |
| E214 | Ethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate |
| E215 | Ethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate, sodium salt |
| E216 | Propyl 4-hydroxybenzoate |
| E217 | Propyl 4-hydroxybenzoate, sodium salt |
| E218 | Methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate |
| E219 | Methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate, sodium salt |
| E310 | Propyl gallate |
| E311 | Octyl gallate |
| E312 | Dodecyl gallate |
| 621 | Sodium hydrogen L-glutamate (monoSodium glutamate) |
| 622 | Potassium hydrogen L-glutamate (monoPotassium glutamate) |
| 623 | Calcium dihydrogen di-L-glutamate (calcium glutamate) |
| 627 | Guanosine 5’-(diSodium phosphate) |
| 631 | Inosine 5’-(diSodium phosphate) |
| 635 | Sodium 5’-ribonucleotide |
The medical profession still believes that more work is needed with larger trials, but in the meantime such diets are very valuable if you, having adopted them, then reduce the number of forbidden substances and foods so that the child concerned is left with as large a variety as possible, is not kept out of the main stream of childhood fun, and does not suffer from unnecessarily restrictive rules.
10. The Avoidable 57 Additives
Additives can hide the true nature of food. You can use polyphosphates (E450) to emulsify fat and to incorporate water, some 128 (Red 2G) to colour the fat so that it looks like meat, enhance the flavour with 621 (monosodium glutamate), so that the food has an addictive and chicken-like flavour. Add some BHA and BHT, E320 and E321, to make sure that the excessive quantities of fat do not go rancid, mix in some lean meat and salt, and surround the mixture with a pastry of white flour and lard, then you have a meat pie which contains very little lean fleshed meat and lots of the sort of saturated fat that our government advises us to eat only in moderation. The additives make sure that our senses do not detect the fat.
What are the most unnecessary or potentially worrying additives? That list only contains some 1 in 5 of those with numbers. These 57 different substances, with rather more chemical names, are:
| E102 | Tartrazine |
| E104 | Quinoline yellow |
| 107 | Yellow 2G |
| E110 | Sunset yellow FCF |
| E120 | Carmine of CochinealCarminic acidCochineal |
| E122 | AzorubineCarmoisine |
| E123 | Amaranth |
| E124 | Ponceau 4R |
| E127 | Erythrosine |
| 128 | Red 2G |
| E131 | Patent blue V |
| E132 | Indigo carmine |
| 133 | Brilliant blue FCF |
| E142 | Acid Brilliant GreenGreen SLissamine Green |
| E150 | Caramel |
| E151 | Black PN |
| E153 | Carbon blackVegetable carbon |
| 154 | Brown FKFood BrownKipper brown |
| 155 | Brown HTChocolate brown HT |
| E173 | Aluminium |
| E180 | Lithol Rubine BK |
| E210 | Benzoic acid |
| E211 | Sodium benzoate |
| E212 | Potassium benzoate |
| E213 | Calcium benzoate |
| E214 | Ethyl-4-hydroxybenzoateEthyl para-hydroxybenzoate |
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