Food additive is a substance that added to any specific food for a specific purpose. From the past few years, there has been a huge explosion occurred in the food industry by addition of chemical adulteration or additives. Most of the food additives are considered safe but there are some artificial additives which causes allergy to a person and considered as toxic or carcinogenic.
Some adverse effect of common food additive allergies that is associated with symptoms like hyperactivity in children, asthma, migraines and other allergies.
The common food additive allergies people usually suffer from: Sulphites- these are used in a wide range of preparation specially in burgers, soft drinks, sausages, dried vegetables and fruits. It is often added in the making of beer and wine to prevent it from further fermentation. Anyone suffering from asthma can react to sulphur dioxide.
Benzoates- benzoic acids with other form of benzoates are food additives used to preserve foods. It prevents moulds and yeast to grow further. It causes the worse symptoms of eczema or asthma mainly in children.
Tartrazine- a yellow colored food additive added in sweets, soft drinks and sauces. The food containing tartrazine can cause dermatitis, nettle rash, rhinitis, or asthama in people having food additive allergies.
For more information on food additive allergies and their treatments, log on to their websites. Although the allergies can not be treated completely by taking medicine and all, but the best way to prevent it, is avoiding such allergic food additives.
More than 10,000 of substances are added to the food at the time of their growing phase, and processing and packaging phase. Some of the additives added can prove harmful as compared to preservatives. During the phase of growing of some of the foods, pesticides are being sprayed on the crops or added to the soil.
These traces are left behind on the food that can lead to food additive allergies when being consumed. Mercury, lead or PCBS are some of the environmental pollutants that are found in foods that can prove to be harmful on being ingested in huge quantities. |
