Editorial Review:Product Description:The essential guide for making sure your food is safe
A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives is back again, in an updated sixth edition. This valuable reference gives you all the facts about the relative safety and side effects of more than 12,000 ingredients that end up 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 may sedate diners!
There are hundreds of new entries to this edition, and topics covered include information about recently discovered resistant strains of bacteria credited to the antibiotics added to animal feed, as well as startling statistics on the amount of money spent on certain additives each year—$1.4 billion—on just flavorings and flavor enhancers.
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.
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A useful book
Didn't have everything I was looking for, like soda - I see that a lot in ingredients, but could never get a clear understanding of what it actually is. However the book is good. I only wished they made a pocket-size version to take with me when I go shopping for food.
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I Never Go To The Grocery Store Without This Book
This book has been a lifesaver (literally) for me. After years and years of suffering I was diagnosed with "painless" migraines. They are most often caused by food allergies.
This book helped me track what additives triggered the migraines.
It has also helped me know that many additives also cause serious food cravings. It is definitely helping me with my weight, too.
I would recommend it to anyone who cares about what they put in their body.
I also talk about this book on my blog about weight loss.
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A must for every nutritionist!
When I received this book I thought it would just be a reference book for clients but as I began to thumb through it I couldn't believe my eyes! I started going through my pantry checking all of my canned goods and the few products I have that are pre-made. It certainly is changing my shopping habits and I'm making time to make more of my foods from scratch for my kids. I'm also going through my HB&A products and finding that even these products that are 'natural' have un-natural compounds. It's addictive and a must have for anyone concerned about additives in their everyday products!
Don't think, just buy it, you will have no regrets!
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Know what you're eating.
This is a very nice resource to learn of the ingredients in the foods we consume today. Every house should have a copy of this book.
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a good starting point
if you need a quick overview and have no real knowledge about ingredients, this is helpful. but if you are looking for thorough definitions and origins of certain ingerdients, like i was, it's not the book to get. i thought the book would read more like a dictionary, with definitions and sources of ingredients found in many products; specifically i was looking to see from where ingredients were obtained, whether or not ingredients were animal based or animal by-products. unfortunately, this is not the case. the descriptions do not follow a pattern as far as including the same types of information for each entry. some will simply list other products which include the entry ingredient, other times you will find a random sentence fragment that goes no where. some definitions seem like the information was gathered from a number of reference materials and then thrown together in a gibberish mish-mash of words. there are apparently a lot of assumptions that the author made with regard to how much her readers already know about some of the entries. i think a better editting job would improve the book a bit, but this is the sixth edition, so it's not like they haven't had a chance to review the material. i really think referring to this book as a dictionary is inappropriate, it's more of a reference book.
