1. Harmful FOOD Additives

2. WHAT ARE ADDITIVES?
Food additives are substances added to food to preserve flavour, enhance its taste and appearance.

3. HOW ARE THEY HARMFUL?
Additives and artificial ingredients add little or no nutritional value to foods and can pose a threat to your health
Processed foods are bad for children
HOW DO THEY OCCUR?
They may be ‘direct’ additives that are introduced intentionally into foods to enhance flavour, improve texture or prevent spoilage which may cause cancer.
Others are ‘indirect’ additives; these include pollutants that come into contact with food from the environment, during growing, processing or packaging.

4. HOW TO PREVENT THEM
It’s simply not enough to buy healthy, high-quality food; it is also important that your food is free of harmful additives.
Use organic foods
Check for the label

5. WHAT IS MSG?
Monosodium glutamate, or MSG, is a flavor-enhancing food additive used in Asian cooking and also commonly found in fast foods as well as commercially packaged food products such as chips, crackers, soups and soup mixes, lunch meats, salad dressings and many others.

6. MSG-intolerant people can develop MSG symptom complex, which is characterized by one of more of the
following:
A burning sensation in the back of the neck, forearms and chest.
Numbness in the back of the neck, radiating to the arms and back.
A tingling, warmth and weakness in the face, temples, upper back, neck and arms.
Facial pressure or tightness, swelling of lips/face
Chest pain, rapid heartbeat
Headache, nausea, drowsiness
Bronchospasm (difficulty breathing) in MSG-intolerant people with asthma. 

7. TYPES OF ADDITIVES
1. Acids 2. Anticaking agents 3. Bulking agents 4. Food colouring 5. Emulsifiers 6. Stabilizers /geling agents 7. Thickeners 8. Flavours 9. Humectants 10. Preservatives 11. Sweeteners

8. Extended List

9. Reward- good health