Wonder no more about Calcium Disodium Ethylenediaminetetraacetate! | 11:30 am | 6 March 2005
Cooking for Engineers has a great (and kinda scary) chart cataloging a huge number of common food additives. All the more reason to cook your own damned food.
March 7th, 2005 at 12:21 am
Thanks for the link, Mir. Everyone thinks I’m nuts for being grossed out by this stuff. I forget who said it: we rely on corporations to feed our kids and then bitch when they don’t do as good of a job as we would — they’re job is to make money, not to help us be healthy (paraphrased). I really do think that our eating and pharamcological habits are why we are such a sick nation.
This suffers from a confirmation bias, but: I don’t eat this crap, and either it keeps me from getting sick when I “should”, or I have a radioactive immune system.
March 7th, 2005 at 12:10 pm
That was ma man Alton Brown who said that- and he was so right! I’d rather be fatter and less chemical-laden than skinny and full of preservatives and other unknown substances. I prefer to have my substances with fringe benefits.
March 7th, 2005 at 2:15 pm
Nice call! It was even on his blog, wasn’t it. What I find hilarious is that Bill Mahr and Alton Brown have a common philosophy.
March 7th, 2005 at 3:17 pm
It’s scary what some of that crap does, especially the trans-fats. My cholesterol may be higher than it should be, but my good cholesterol is high, too – because I at least come by it honestly. There are a lot of vegetarians out there who would be healthier if they cut out processed food instead of well-raised meat.
The closest thing to processed food we have in the house are Saltines. Oh, and that nasty can of “strawberry” “milk” “powder” that Russ keeps ;-)
March 8th, 2005 at 10:25 pm
now, now. normal food has plenty of preservatives.
oh, wait. they’re called pesticides. never mind.
March 8th, 2005 at 11:23 pm
Yeah, Yeah. We eat fresh food, but we’re not rich enough to justify an all-organic diet. That stuff is mondo expensive. Isn’t it the same in Cali? It’s mostly a matter of diminishing risk to an acceptible level. You don’t see many people getting fat and sloppy on from pesticides from well-washed veggies and fresh meats. Now milk, that’s another story.