E for Additives

E for Additives
Maurice Hanssen

The award-winning million copy seller, now available as an ebook.The book shows you how to tell the difference between the additives you need in food and wine and those you don’t (after all, by no means the majority of additives are bad for you).• when preservatives, colourings and flavourings have a place in our food• GM foods – which issues should cause concern• Additives in unexpected places – even in a glass of wine• facts on pesticides, fertilizers, antibiotics and growth hormones

E FOR ADDITIVES

THE BEST-SELLING, AWARD WINNING DEFINITIVE E NUMBER GUIDE

Maurice Hanssen

with Jill Marsden

B.Sc., Dip.Ecol., Dip.Ed.

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First published October 1984

Twentieth Impression December 1986

Second edition (completely revised and substantially expanded) September 1988

© Maurice Hansen 1987

Maurice Hansen asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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Source ISBN: 9780722515624

Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2016 ISBN 9780007381562

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Dedication (#ulink_b4aa3425-3a23-5190-9848-dc4d43b7bac2)

This new edition is dedicated to:

All those consumers and manufacturers who use the E code wisely to improve the quality of food and of health;

the many scientists, manufacturers and consumers who have provided invaluable technical information;

all those journalists and broadcasters who helped begin a food buying revolution with the first edition;

my patient and dedicated publishers;

my Research Assistant, Jill Marsden, B.Sc, who continues to triumph over the problems of organizing ever increasing quantities of often contradictory scientific information;

the distinguished and still crusading former Minister of Health, David Ennals, for his perceptive and kind foreword;

Leslie Kenton for her foreword to the first edition;

Elizabeth Brown and Angela Beazley for their word-processing skills, often under great pressure;

my family for their support.

Contents

Cover (#ue1fdf853-0ad0-5a06-a7c5-a44e61c62dde)

Title Page (#uf04daa52-8461-5c16-b47c-bf95de0ab169)

Copyright (#uaf70bf8f-cea7-51e8-8f24-8a231b0d7d50)

Dedication (#u24b0ccc1-0058-59f0-8b4b-804086bcc5f0)

Foreword by Lord Enrols (#u1215593c-0c19-5474-8bf3-7d0731cc6d7d)

Foreword to First Edition by Leslie Kenton (#ud936bb59-b843-5943-961a-2953a2b6c87a)

Introduction (#u8187c592-35eb-5a9b-9767-9da2f4acd065)

1. How to Read the Label (#u13d9b6c3-303a-59a2-9600-8a75e97da532)

2. Why Are There Still Secret Ingredients? (#ueed6eac1-95f3-54c4-99c1-0b03795cccd7)

3. Golden Eggs and Pink-Fleshed Fish (#u65abc5a7-22d9-5dc7-b411-20ce69991fd4)

4. The Colour Problem (#ud78d46db-c64f-5cbe-9c88-38e6d1570588)

5. Flavourings (#u8be8ad5a-0b1d-5279-b6dd-69e8203177d7)

6. P for Pesticides (#u65fac0da-82d6-5ca7-a7a3-678bd43b7cf2)

7. Is It Kosher? (#u661d6bba-94c8-5e27-90d0-22580a1eacc6)

8. Do Additives Affect Ability? (#ue8f8bd74-dfdd-5941-9c33-2087d1847c0b)

9. Hyperactivity in Children (#uc27b7a24-fee1-50e7-af47-492ce3292e63)