S10 EP12: Chemicals in YOUR Food that May Be Banned Soon

Hot off the press: Gatorade could be banned in
multiple states if its recipe isn't changed! Hold the phone! But
isn’t gatorade what you give your kid after a game because you
know they’ll drink it? It’s way more fun than water and it has
electrolytes! Right? Ok maybe you kinda knew that something was
up with it and anything that color is kinda SUS. And sometimes
it’s easier to look the other way and just live, without worrying
about every darn thing. In this episode, we talk about Gatorade
and a number of other products on the shelf at your grocery store
that have additives and preservatives that are dangerous to
consume and linked to cancer, hyperactivity, and DNA mutations.
Other countries have banned these substances. Why haven’t we? No
need to panic. Awareness is the key here. In this episode Kelsea
and Rachael list the offenders and how to spot them. 


ADDITIVES, PRESERVATIVES TO LOOK OUT FOR:


Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Titanium Dioxide, Blue 1, Red 40, Red 3,
Propylparaben, Brominated vegetable oil (BVO), Potassium Bromate


WHERE TO LOOK:


Snacks: Doritos, Ruffles, Cheetos, trail mix


Dips: Tostitos queso, Doritos Dip


Drinks: Gatorade, Pedialyte, Colored Drinks, Citrus Drinks


Cereal: Lucky Charms, Trix, Fruit Loops


Baked Goods: Oreos, cupcakes, muffins, Duncan Hines 'Perfectly
Moist' cake mix and icing, Pillsbury 'Funfetti' cake mix, bread,
cookies, tortillas


Candy: Skittles, Sour Patch Kids, M&Ms, Peeps


Links:


Yuka app


OEHHA Report Linking Hyperactivity


FDAs Explanation of GRAS


NYs Legislation


Consumer Report Overview


Toxicology of Food Dyes


(00:00:00) Introduction


(00:02:03) Foods with potentially dangerous ingredients,
including Gatorade


(00:03:16) Gatorade marketing


(00:08:15) Gatorade and nostalgia


(00:10:18) Riding the line between awareness of ingredients and
too much anxiety about them


(00:12:30) The Skittles “ban”


(00:14:00) These bans are about chemicals and food additives, not
the foods that contain them


(00:15:35) Red dye number 3


(00:18:07) Four food additives that have been removed in other
countries


(00:23:19) The effects of Red 40


(00:27:37) Categorizing a food as bad if it contains a known
carcinogen.


(00:30:09) Why individual states are banning harmful food
ingredients instead of the FDA


(00:36:28) The FDA’s honor system for food additives


(00:40:07) Food dyes can be found in foods that aren’t a natural
color


(00:41:13) Not all food dyes are harmful, but some are


(00:41:45) Yuka, the app that lets you scan products and receive
a score 


(00:43:50) How scores are calculated and what they mean


(00:49:23) Using the app to get recommendations for products with
a better score



CVG Links:


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