The FDA doesn’t require small quantities BHA, BHT & TBHQ to be listed as an ingredient on food labels. Also, if the company uses shortening, oil, or any other ingredient containing these preservatives these do not have to be listed separately since it part of that specific ingredient. Plea...
however, takes this simple recipe and introduces a cocktail of chemicals, fats, and acids. Ingredients like beef flavoring, dextrose,TBHQ(tertiary butylhydroquinone), and Polydimethylsiloxane turn this humble dish into an unhealthy concoction.
The additives were sodium ascorbate, SA sodium tripolyphosphate, STPP; butylated hydroxyanisole, BHA; and t-butylhydroquinone, TBHQ. A nitrite-free meat-curing system Shasha, "Reversed Phase HPLC-UV Quantitation of BHA, BHT and TBHQ in Food Items Sold in Bindura Supermarkets, Zimbabwe," Internation...
without preservatives. Their fries aren’t cooked in oil that contains TBHQ (a derivative of butane) or the anti-foaming agentdimethylpolysiloxane(an ingredient in silly putty) like they are here. Isn’t it funny that the oil in the U.K. seems to work just fine without these ingredients?
Not only red color 40 is bad but also TBHQ, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, MSG etc. A simple food like a cereal or chips have long unwanted list of ingredients. Simple rule is if a food has more than 4-5 ingredients don’t buy it. Something you can’t pronounce don’...
Shortening in the USA Generally speaking, here in the USA, "shortening" has come almost exclusively to mean hydrogenatedvegetable oil. Specifically,Crisco'singredientsare soybeanoil, fully hydrogenated palmoil, palmoil, mono and diglycerides, TBHQ, and citric acid. ...