Chemicals in Food

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Usually I do most of my cooking from scratch, but last week I noticed I had a package of cranberry/orange nut bread mix that was probably near the expiration date so I figured I bake it up. When I opened the box I could smell the chemical smell that goes with preseratives, artifical flavorings and colorings, etc. I haven't cooked with pre-packaged food for a very long time and was amazed at the chemical smell and equally amazed I'd never noticed it before. I wonder if there was anything real in there! I tossed it out. I wasn't even going to bake it up and feed it to my chickens, much less my family.

Thanks for reading.

-- Dianne Bone (dianne.bone@usa.net), June 06, 2001

Answers

Agreed; after eating eggs from my henyard, I stopped in at ------ 's and had breakfast, their eggs reeked of antibiotices, their "butter" tasted like mineral oil and crayola meld, ect.

-- mitch hearn (moopups1@aol.com), June 06, 2001.

Know wonder the kids are bounceing off the walls, Have you looked at a package of jello lately, all those dyes, I read every box when I go to store, and more and more I am going to scarch cooking and bakeing. We eat pure butter, home grown eggs, honey in the place of sugar. I make my own bread. and of course tons of vegtables out of the garden. I also think cancer is on the increase because of junk foods. I have Grandkids who have coke for breakfast!!!!!! with love Irene

-- Irene texas (tkorsborn@cs.com), June 06, 2001.

And those are just the chemicals they tell you about. I know the powers that be are putting mind controlling agents in our food, water and air. Think about it. They use the media, our schools and popular culture to do the same things. To shape peoples thoughts, opinions and the standards we follow. Yet not many question chemical usage. The government has lightly admitted to running tests on unknowing citizens in the past. I say they are using many means of people control now, including chemicals. Common sense says, why wouldn't they?

-- nobody (nothing@nowhere.no), June 06, 2001.

I lent someone a book because she knows my son has food allergies and has realized that something has to be done to help her son. Even though she agreed with everything in the book (Is This Your Child? by Dr Doris Rapp) she doesn't know if she wants to change their diets because it'll be such a hassle. When I started naming symptoms of her son that she never mentioned to me, she was amazed. I'll have to work on her but told her to start by not using anything with preservatives, pesticides and food coloring. It'll be a lot of work to get her to change....

-- Dee (gdgtur@goes.com), June 06, 2001.

Hello Diane, Since cranberries are rather expensive you will find that cake mixes do not contain very many. They usually just dye apple chunks the colore of cranberries and put them in the mix with just a couple of REAL cranberries. The chemicals that you smelled were probably the residue from the dyes. Sincerely, Ernest

-- http://communities.msn.com/livingoffthelandintheozarks (espresso42@hotmail.com), June 09, 2001.


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