Check out these common ingredients in store-bought potato salad:
Store-bought Potato Salad Ingredients: Potatoes, Mayonnaise (Soybean Oil, Water, Egg Yolks, Vinegar, Salt), Sugar, Celery, Water, Sweet Pickle Relish (Cucumbers, Sugar, Distilled Vinegar, Salt, Contains Less Than 2% Of: Mustard Seed, Xanthan Gum Celery Seed, Dehydrated Red Bell Pepper, Calcium Chloride, Natural Flavoring, Turmeric, Dehydrated Onion), Mustard (Water, Vinegar, Mustard Seed, Salt, Sugar, Soybean Oil, Turmeric, Paprika, Annatto Color, Garlic, Spices, Xanthan Gum, Calcium Disodium EDTA (Preservative), Natural Flavor, Citric Acid), Onion, Salt, Red Bell Pepper, Vinegar, Modified Cornstarch, Spice, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), Xanthan Gum, Annatto Color.
You may be wondering why a small amount of these ingredients is harmful to your health.
When you eat small amounts of toxic chemicals, additives, and preservatives on a daily basis, they accumulate in the body over time and manifest where you are genetically weak.
One day, you wake up with unpleasant symptoms that keep you from feeling your best.
Here’s a peek at what is harmful about these potato salad ingredients:
Calcium Chloride is a type of salt that absorbs moisture and is used frequently in processed foods. The body cannot digest it so it is stored as a toxin in the body.
Calcium Disodium EDTA is a food additive used to stabilize mixtures of oils and fats, promote color retention, and extend food shelf life.
Citric Acid is a preservative and sour flavor that is naturally found in lemons but is used as an additive in packaged foods typically derived from GMO corn. Frequent use is harmful to your gut and teeth.
Modified Corn Starch refers to corn starch that has been treated to change its properties. How it is modified, and what properties are changed depends on how it is going to be used.
Natural Flavors are made from chemicals derived from anything in nature and are used to make fake food taste real. Every flavor can contain up to 100 ingredients including synthetic chemicals like propylene glycol, BHA, MSG, and GMO ingredients. These ingredients are very toxic to the body.
Sodium Benzoate is a synthetic preservative that produces a known carcinogen, benzene when combined with ascorbic or erythorbic acid. Yikes!
Soybean Oil is a refined cooking oil that increases inflammation, cardiovascular disease, and cancer risk. The most disturbing thing is that it is almost always made from GMO soybeans. GMO soybeans contain high levels of residues from the herbicide glyphosate compared to non-GMO soybeans. Glyphosate is a carcinogen linked to kidney disease, birth defects, and autism. To extract the oil, soybeans are typically subjected to intensive chemical refining with toxic hexane, bleach, and deodorizers.
Sugar commonly comes from GMO sugar beets unless it indicates sugar cane. Sugar is an addictive substance used to create the perfect combination of sugar, salt, and fat to increase cravings for processed foods.
Xanthan gum is an additive used as a thickener or stabilizer. It is created when sugar is fermented by bacteria and creates a goo-like substance that is made solid by adding alcohol. Does that sound like food to you?
In summary, toxic overload leads to all chronic illnesses and diseases.
You can minimize it every day with the food you put on your fork.
Get back in your kitchen to discover the flavor of real food.
Your health is in your hands!
Shawn
