Wednesday, August 13, 2014

DIET DETECTIVE: What's Really Inside Your Egg McMuffin? | LIVESTRONG.COM

DIET DETECTIVE: What's Really Inside Your Egg McMuffin? | LIVESTRONG.COM

Azodicarbonamide. This hard-to-pronounce ingredient (first sign it's bad news!) has been banned in Australia, the UK, and in most European countries. In Singapore you can get up to 15 years in prison and penalized nearly half a million dollars in fines for using this chemical as an ingredient. But in the U.S., this asthma-causing allergen is totally legal and often used in foamed plastics, like yoga mats and sneaker soles, as well as in bleach flour as a whitening agent. Apparently impatient American markets can't wait one week for wheat to whiten naturally.

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