Food additives: Good or bad? Common food additive E171 found to affect gut microbiota activity repor
Food chemicals such as food additives have exploded into our food supply since the 1950's. They are mainly used to increase shelf life of products (antioxidants, anticaking agents) , make products look better (colours, whitening agents, thickeners? or even taste better (flavouring agents, MSG, thickeners, sweeteners). In our family kitchen, I have been trying to decrease the amount of processed food that we consume, by making our own foods from scratch e.g. bread, mayo, yoghu