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You might believe what I’m about to share with you from an American food ingredient checker. You might, but I think most Americans won’t believe it.

Here’s some data the ingredient checker discovered.

~ These ingredients are banned in Europe. But legal in the US. Really makes you think twice when it says “FDA approved.” 

POTASSIUM BROMATE

* Can irritate nose, throat and lungs

* Shown to cause thyroid and kidney cancers in animals

TITANIUM DIOXIDE

* Enhances products white color and opacity

* The IARC has listed it as a group 2b Carcinogen

BROMINATED VEGETABLE OIL

‘ * Contains Bromine, which irritates the skin & mucous membranes

* Long term, it can cause neurological symptoms

AZODICARBONAMIDE

* Used as a whitening agent in cereal flour and bread dough

* When broken down, it creates two compounds believed to be carcinogenic

PROPYLPARABEN

* Can affect fertility in mice

* Also can affect or alter the endocrine system 

RED 40, YELLOW 6 & YELLOWS DYES

* European authorities have not banned them. But they require a warning that dyes can affect attention in children.

* May contain with several carcinogens

ANTIBIOTICS IN ANIMALS

* Overuse of antibiotics can contribute to deadly drug resistant bacteria that can be passed onto humans 

RBST

* A hormone injected into cows to increase milk production has tenuous links to breast cancer cells in humans  ~

Ms. El and I are ingredient checkers too.

No, we’re not scientists. And we don’t play researchers on some YouTube channel. But we read ingredients on just about everything we bring into our home. I’m not sure we hit the 100% mark all the time. But we do our best to be sure our food doesn’t contain food enhancers with laboratory sounding names.

‘ Salt, pepper, garlic, and butter.

Those are just about the only enhancers good food ever needs. And food that contains inflammatory ingredients, like the ones listed before, ain’t good for you. Plus, my guess is, most of those ingredients aren’t accidentally bad for you. But what do I know. I’m just a guy who’d rather eat the way my Great-Grandpappy, who lived into his nineties, ate.

You can eat whichever way your little ol’ heart prefers.

After all, we still have a right or two left, here in the land of the fees and home of the slaves.

In the land of the fees,
On the home of the slave,
Where the Savior still sees
And still says to be brave;
‘Cause the time will still come,
And it just might be soon,
When it all ends for some,
The astute and immune,
Who believe in the Truth
That still strengthens and frees,
And will free us, like Ruth,
From this land of the fees.  © 2022

I heard someone say, “Hey Tony, I don’t know you well enough to buy something from you.”

Ok, let’s change that. Get to know more about me and my worldview. Join the growing body of believers who signed up for the Tony’s Daily Devotional . And receive daily dashes of salt and flashes of light from the power of God’s love. Be a careful ingredient checker. You can unsubscribe any time.

And you can always break out your credit card for my stuff later on.

Stay tuned…