A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives

by Ruth Winter

The essential guide for choosing safe and healthful food

A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives is back, in an up-dated fifth edition. This valuable reference gives you all the facts about the relative safety and side effects of more than 8,000 ingredients that end up indirectly in your food as a result of processing and curing, such as preservatives, food-tainting pesticides, and animal drugs. For example, drugs used to tranquilize pigs have actually been known to sedate diners!
        
More than 800 entries are new to this edition and cover recently developed food production technologies (genetically engineered vegetables, bovine growth hormone, and other outcomes of the processing of food today), as well as information on the new label regulations and on guidelines for safe food storage.
        
A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives is a precise tool that will tell you exactly what to leave on supermarket shelves as a reminder to manufacturers that you know what the labels mean and which products are safe to bring home to your family.

Genres: Health, Reference, Food, Nonfiction, Nutrition

352 pages, Paperback

First published August 18, 1982

Reviews

[Jeannie Locke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although this isn't a book one would read cover to cover it is a great reference book that I continue to refer to almost daily. If the sheer size of the book alone doesn't shock you (almost 600 pgs.) the content will because it contains descriptions of over 12,000 FOOD additives (many harmful) that appear on our (American) nutrition labels! Maybe this will be your incentive to buy organic and avoid processed foods. Do you know what you've been consuming and feeding your family? Find out now.

[Stela Idrizi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book and learned so much about the things that I have always wondered about concerning food labeling and additives. A great book if you are looking to educate yourself on the matter.

[(Kelly) Wistful Texan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book on the many toxins that are in our food. Fantastic resource.

[Kristin]

Very interesting! I didn't read the entire book, only the chapter at the beginning because it is a dictionary. There is so much b.s. surrounding the food industry...so many government agencies and subagencies, different regulations. I plan to keep the book with my cookbooks so I can look up ingredients that are on labels.

[Annie · Rating 4 out of 5]

You'd be surprised what's in your food. It's not quite so effective if you make everything from scratch, but if you buy the occasional (or often) packaged food, this resource will help you figure out which of your foods have coloring that comes from coal... mmm.

[Jenava · Rating 5 out of 5]

Call me crazy, but I like to know what goes into my body.

[Sally · Rating 5 out of 5]

library is ordering!!!

[Brittany Rouse · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's actually pretty cool! I didn't fully read this because it's more like a dictionary but it's a wonderful reference!

[Saleris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another book bought for food ingredient information. It works.