E Numbers

[plop1389]

Why are E numebrs and artificial flavourings bad 4 us?

[tracymort]

You might find this interesting - http://www.whatreallyworks.co.uk/start/kidszone.asp?article_ ID=401

[Pinotage]

E-Numbers are not bad for you. The e-number system was a brilliant idea that has been ruined by the ignorance of so-called consumer champions.

The idea is that, because there are somany languages throughout the EU there should be a standard short way of identifying food additives, so all were given an e (for Europe number).

That meant that if you were travelling in Greece, for example, and youwanted to avoid food with monosodium glutamate you didn't havethe know the Greek for it but could just look for E621 on the label.

But because some additives are those that people want to avoid, such as tartrazine E102 which we found caused hyperactivity in our child quite soon the very phrase E-number was being used as shorthand to mean something bad. And manuafacturers stoped usingthe e-numbers and went back to a name. Yet they're not all; anyone having a coca-cola has E220 (carbon dioxide). The list is at http://www.foodlaw.rdg.ac.uk/additive.htm