5. Diphenylamine
The apple that Snow White receives is a red apple with a glossy appearance, and Snow White is attracted to its luster. The luster comes from a chemical called diphenylamine, and while Snow White fell into a coma because of a witch's spell, consuming too much diphenylamine does cause problems in the body.
Diphenylamine is a colorless, odorless liquid that is widely used to give fruits a luster and to keep them fresh for longer by preventing them from being scratched. Diphenylamine's properties also allow it to be used as a lubricant, propellant and high explosive. Although diphenylamine is allowed to be consumed in small amounts, the European Food Safety Authority has explicitly banned the consumption of American apples with diphenylamine added. Because recent studies have shown that large amounts of diphenylamine ingestion into the body can cause cancer.
4. Butyl hydroxyanisole
What if you ate gum instead of removing it from the wrapper, but chewing it directly with the plastic wrapper? Studies have shown that butyl hydroxyanisole can be extracted from both substances at the same time.
Butyl hydroxyanisole and butylhydroxytoluene can generally be used as food preservatives to prevent food spoilage. Butyl hydroxyanisole is commonly found in chewing gum, nuts, and butters. However, although it preserves food and prevents food from rotting, butyl hydroxyanisole has been shown to cause gastrointestinal indigestion problems, blood clots or interfere with hormone regulation, and it is a human carcinogen.
The FDA only allows 0.02% per product, which has been explicitly prohibited in the UK and Japan and is strictly regulated by EU countries.
3. Partially hydrogenated oil
Have you ever wondered a question: how candy, ham sausages and other things are kept for so long? The answer is the addition of partially hydrogenated oils.
It is included in foods such as sugar-coated foods, with the aim of extending the shelf life of foods, which is very beneficial for product manufacturers, but there are also evidences that this increases the content of trans fats in foods. In recent years, hydrogenated oils have been considered by the FDA as "generally considered safe additives," according to the FDA's official account, however, the FDA itself overturned that approval and gave all manufacturers three years to remove the hydrogenated oil from their products' constituents, starting in 2018.
Since 2004, Denmark has explicitly banned the use of hydrogenated oil, and Thailand and other eu countries, as well as now the United States, have also banned the use of hydrogenated oil.
2. Potassium bromate
Waiting for bread to bake to maturity can be a repetitive torture process for people with poor patience, and for these pastry chefs, potassium bromate is a good thing that can speed up the baking process while also bleaching the bread color.
Brominated flour originated from a chemical that makes up brominated vegetable oils, and studies have shown that potassium bromate can be found in a variety of bread products. Brominated flour speeds up the baking process of bread and makes it more efficient to make bread. Although potassium bromate may appear harmless, it has been shown that potassium bromate can have a variety of negative effects after being ingested in large quantities. It leads to a higher cancer prevalence and may also increase kidney and nervous system damage.
Today, countries such as the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada and Brazil have banned the use of potassium bromate and required warning signs on products sold in California.
1. Ractopamine
With the debate over growth hormone in milk, people are also starting to pay attention to the food additives of meat in their lives.
Ractopamine is a food additive chemically called phenylethanolamine, which is added to animal feed so that they can eat less, making them more muscle than fat, making merchants more profitable. While these don't cause any problems, ractopamine has been shown to have side effects on the body, and even after complex processing, the amount of ractopamine in meat is still prominent, so it has attracted close attention, and scientists have questioned whether the long-term effects of ractopamine on the human body, whether it will cause damage to the liver and kidneys or cause problems for the thyroid gland.
Today, ractopamine has been banned in livestock countries, and Russia and China, as well as 26 other countries, are explicitly banned.