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Why be concerned about additives in our food?

What we eat can affect the way we behave and our ability to learn

Food manufacturers use a whole lot of additives to process the foods on which most shoppers rely on. This is to make food cheaper and more plentiful, convenient, attractive and durable; but we do not always know that it is still safe and nourishing to eat. Not all food additives are harmful, some are natural and some are very important to keep our food safe. However, some are very harmful to us and this is why we established Additive Free Ltd to give you the benefit of children’s favourites without compromising their health.

Because our Government has always been harder pressed by industries than by consumers these chemicals, about whose safety we know far too little, have nevertheless been passed for widespread use in food. There are several thousand kinds, most of them flavourings whose recipes are often carefully kept secret, and which are subject to no regulation or monitoring whatsoever.

We know that the drugs we use deliberately often have unwanted or harmful side effects, which are related to the quantity we consume, the time for which we take them and our own peculiarities. We also know that drugs interact with each other, to alter both their wanted and unwanted effects. We have no reason to suppose that chemicals used in food behave any differently, just because we do not call them drugs.

At the rate at which the use of additives in food has increased, we in Britain probably now each consume an average of around 5 kilogram’s (11 pounds) of these chemicals each year, some people may be eating three times this much. It amounts to 23 soluble aspirin sized tablets daily, “drugs” of unknown safety that we scarcely know we are taking!

How much harm is all this doing us? Truly, nobody knows. But there is plenty of scope. Consider how often our children and we are vaguely miserable or unwell; how allergies, nervous diseases, bowel disorders, cancer, heart disease and arthritis are all widespread, probably increasing, and inadequately explained.

Please contact us for a full list of our totally additive free products.