Customer Reviews

What's In Your Food?: The Truth about Additives from Aspartame to Xanthan Gum

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I found this book to be a handy, quick reference to the hundreds of additives commonly found today. The one drawback to the book was in the printing of the tables - they were printed in shades of gray - dark for avoid, gray for caution, and white for safe. It was difficult to read the entries for the items to avoid because the background shading for these entries was almost too dark.

The shaded tables in this book are entirely too dark to read. I would not recommend purchasing this book in its present form.

I bought 3 copies of this book. I keep one in my kitchen, car and purse. It's compact size makes it easy to keep close at hand and I refer to it constantly. Ever since I connected the dots between what I eat and how I feel, I care ALOT about what I put into my mouth. I want to know why these chemicals are in my food And I Want To Know Where They Came From!!I hope the author will expand and update this book soon.

Some of the additives that he listed as safe and natural, in my opinion, are not. My doctor has told me to stay away from them. Maybe I'm just "special" in the sense that I can't tolerate or digest them. This doesn't seem to be a "cure-all" for everyone. In my case, it's just better to make it myself! :) I hope "shopping the perimeter" (fresh produce and meat -- no boxes, cans, or jars in the isles) will improve your health like it has mine.

--Edit: I changed my review from a one-star to a three-star because it's a start to get on track about knowing what goes into your body. Happy eating!

graph form with the bad items darkened, making them difficult to read. Would prefer more information regarding the origin of these ingredients to determine if they are vegetarian or not.

We had checked this book out of the library and were using it regularly for a few weeks. It has simple and clear charts and categories and what I believe is a exhaustive list of both cosmetics and food. Though it doesn't go into detail about the products or the reasons for their conclusions in depth (we'll just trust them) they do have a one sentence description of the products benefit of dangers. Read it and be healthier.

This book is great, one of many on food additives and other chemicals we are allowed to use. People have to realize we have been using chemicals like this for less than 80 years. We don't even have a full lifetime of studies to fall back on. These chemicals are not like aspirin which we know what it's effects, good and bad are and it has been around for over 120 years.

In short, choose wisely with this knowledge, eat natural when ever you can, you only live once. You can't buy another body like you can a car. btw: it is not natural to drink another animals breast milk as food.