Of which foods that you purchase do you read the ingredients list?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Not many, not all.
I'm more likely to read the ingredients in a pre-cooked ready-meal; but so far have seen nothing really to worry about.
Though the exercise has shown how the "own-brand" cereals and sauces sold in the likes odf Aldi and Lidl, contain a lot less sugar and salt than their "big name" equivalents on the same shelves.
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The use of "E-numbers" seems to have stopped, but I don't know if that's because the UK repealed the need after leaving the Europen Union that created the E system; or if the food manufacturers dropped them in responding to customers' fears and wants.
The E-number scheme is valid to a point, but unfortunately leaves finding the numbered ingredient's identity to the customer. Easy if you have ready access to reputable on-line information, from which you might print a ready-reference list to keep in the kitchen or carry with you (or as a simple text-document on your 'phone?). Unfortunately though, I suspect many people prefer ignorance and fear to taking a little bit of trouble.
A few E-numbers are for artificial flavours and colours of little need and questionable safety, especially when over-used to make some beverages and sweets particularly attractive to children; but most are intrinsically harmless unless perhaps added to excess.
These "normal" E-numbered ones include:
sodium bicarbonate (raising agent),
calcium carbonate (natural rock mineral used as flour anti-caking agent),
monosodium glutamate (natural thickener from some plants and meat. Might upset vegans), vegetable-derived colours, citric acid (e.g. from lemon juice) and acetic acid (vinegar),
sodium chloride (normal table salt),
sucrose (table sugar from sugar-beet or sugar-cane. Also, fructose is fruit sugar, glucose the sugar our bodies normally make as fuel internally, anyway).
I don't have their E-numbers because I have not needed find an E-number table since the packets started listing the ingredients by name instead.
I'm more likely to read the ingredients in a pre-cooked ready-meal; but so far have seen nothing really to worry about.
Though the exercise has shown how the "own-brand" cereals and sauces sold in the likes odf Aldi and Lidl, contain a lot less sugar and salt than their "big name" equivalents on the same shelves.
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The use of "E-numbers" seems to have stopped, but I don't know if that's because the UK repealed the need after leaving the Europen Union that created the E system; or if the food manufacturers dropped them in responding to customers' fears and wants.
The E-number scheme is valid to a point, but unfortunately leaves finding the numbered ingredient's identity to the customer. Easy if you have ready access to reputable on-line information, from which you might print a ready-reference list to keep in the kitchen or carry with you (or as a simple text-document on your 'phone?). Unfortunately though, I suspect many people prefer ignorance and fear to taking a little bit of trouble.
A few E-numbers are for artificial flavours and colours of little need and questionable safety, especially when over-used to make some beverages and sweets particularly attractive to children; but most are intrinsically harmless unless perhaps added to excess.
These "normal" E-numbered ones include:
sodium bicarbonate (raising agent),
calcium carbonate (natural rock mineral used as flour anti-caking agent),
monosodium glutamate (natural thickener from some plants and meat. Might upset vegans), vegetable-derived colours, citric acid (e.g. from lemon juice) and acetic acid (vinegar),
sodium chloride (normal table salt),
sucrose (table sugar from sugar-beet or sugar-cane. Also, fructose is fruit sugar, glucose the sugar our bodies normally make as fuel internally, anyway).
I don't have their E-numbers because I have not needed find an E-number table since the packets started listing the ingredients by name instead.