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What Flavors Your Ice Cream?
© By Lena Sanchez
How about a Hot Fudge Banana Nut Sundae? Sounds good, looks good, tastes
good, but after what I've been finding out I will look at it in a more
careful light and make my own!
Do you know what's in your ice cream? You probably think you do because
the container lists most ingredients and you figure if the FDA allows it
that it must be healthy for you. Think again! Sadly ingredients lists on
foods can be very deceiving and unless you are a chemist you probably have
no idea what you are reading anyway.
Use ice cream flavors as an example.
Flavoring is a tricky one and the wording is very tricky! You have to
watch that word "flavor"!
Starting with Strawberry flavoring. A synthetic chemical by the name of
benzyl acetate tastes like strawberry and is used in most strawberry
flavored ice cream. What is benzyl acetate? Merck Index cautions; "This
substance is extremely dangerous and can cause vomiting and diarrhea." It
is a nitrate solvent. A cleaning agent!
Maybe you prefer banana flavored. Does it say banana flavor? Most do! A
chemical called amylbutyrate and used as a paint solvent.
Or could it be vanilla favors you? Does it say vanilla flavor? Or
artificially flavored vanilla? Bet you thought if it said vanilla flavor
it was really vanilla from the vanilla bean. Sorry, that is very rare in
ice cream. but you knew artificial meant artificial. Vanilla flavor comes
in two flavors. Vanilla category I, and Vanilla category II. Category I is
entirely vanilla. What exactly is vanilla? Not even close to the vanilla
bean! It is either peperonal or vanillan. Peperonal is a chemical used to
kill lice while vanillan is made from the waste of wood pulp and neither
has even had a vanilla bean waved over it much less in it. Real natural
vanilla is pureed vanilla beans or extract of vanilla beans and perfectly
healthy but very expensive and not usually used in ice cream or most other
processed food products today!
Let's try for Pineapple flavored ice cream. Sorry again it has never seen
a pineapple, the flavoring used is ethyl acetate used as a cleaner for
leather and textiles, and is known to cause liver, kidney and heart
damage. The vapors cause chronic lung, liver and heart damage, so the
people making your ice cream is in even more danger.
I personally like cherry, but from now on I'm not so sure about that. The
cherry flavor used in most ice cream is Aldehydec 17, an inflammable
liquid used as aniline (indigo base) dyes and in the manufacture of
plastic and rubber.
Sadly even nut flavors lost out to chemicals. I love 31 flavors Black
Walnut, well I did…Nut flavoring is butraldehyde, a chemical used in
rubber cement. You have to watch that word "flavor". If it says "flavor"
you can bet it's probably chemical, occasionally there will be a bit of
natural mixed in but almost never. Legally they have to put the word
"flavor" on something that isn't natural… They say it's not to fool us,
but I don't believe that for a moment.
I remember my mother and grandmother putting eggs in our ice cream before
freezing it in our home crank freezer. They said it was for texture,
smoothness and taste. Today eggs are no longer used. Taking the place of
eggs in commercial ice cream for texture and smoothness you will find the
container says emulsifiers and/or stabilizers. Those neat emulsifier and
stabilizers are listed as one or more of the following; Diethyl glycol
(specialty solvents), - whatever the heck that means - diglycerides (oil),
disodium phosphates - now restricted from detergents because of it's
danger to our health -, dioctylsodium sulfosuccinate (detergent), sodium
carboxyl methylcelluose, monoglycerides , tetrasodium pyrophosphate,
polysorbate 80, glycerin and all used in either antifreeze, surfactant,
oil, cleaning products, or paint remover.
I could go on but I won't. Sadly all those "flavors" are made from coal
tars found in coal or petroleum. Known to cause cancers of the stomach,
liver, kidney, bowels and other organs. When researching these some was so
scary I'm not going to even tell you what I found. Let's say you don't
want them IN OR ON your body!
Read contents carefully before you buy ice cream or any processed foods.
There are only one or two popular brands of ice cream that are not using
these chemicals!
In my research on those chemical listed on different ice cream containers
I also found a lot of popular drinks with some of the same ingredients.
Probably the most popular being Gatorade... Well, don't drink them unless
you think your body can handle cleaning solvents and you like drinking
petroleum!
I know some of you will say, "well in small amounts it won't hurt me or
the government wouldn't let them use it." Ha, are you nuts? Read "Oh
That Small Amount Won't Hurt Me" then say that.
Everything builds up over time as our body is created to absorb and use
natural vegetables and grain based foods. The rest sets up in our fat
cells and/or make free-radicals like crazy and we become a disease or
illness waiting to happen. When it happens is anybody's guess…
I will never look at ice cream the same way again!
How about you?
Lena
Lena Sanchez a happy retired Medical Office
Nurse/Administrator/Consultant who took charge of her life 12 years ago
found pain relief and committed to helping others do the same…
Editor of A Natural Environmental Health Facts & Your Home
Business Coach Ezines.
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Author of Three How-To health building books available at
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