PROCESSED FOODS – ARE THEY SAFE?

Abstract

Processed foods contain high calorie food particles at different forms added with different additives. United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommend safe use of different chemicals as food additives in processed foods. But many researcher raised questions about their safety. Fifty commonly used food additives are identified for having serious toxic effects on human health by a research group. These chemicals are added with adulterated basic items for preparation of processed foods in many cases. The problem is discussed in Indian context and a thorough research on cumulative toxic effects of all the external chemicals enter in the human body continuously is proposed in the article.

Keywords

• Processed foods
• Food additives
• Adulterants
• Cumulative effect
• Toxicity study