Nutritional Ingredients: Preservatives and Their Link to Allergies and Sensitivities

Because many diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia also deal with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) also known as Environmental Illness (EI) — which can include allergies and/or sensitivities to preservatives, food additives, or food itself, and because many diagnosed with Fibromyalgia must also contend with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), knowing which food additives are good, safe additives isn’t always easy to determine. (For example, in my case it doesn’t matter what’s added to bread in any efforts to make it more healthful; if the bread contains preservatives, it’s going to cause me to get a yeast rash. That sometimes doesn’t happen when I eat bread without preservatives; for me, I’ve found that yeast products are safest when I make my own using flour that I’ve ground myself and I now usually limit myself to sour dough bread that I make myself. –Pamela Rice Hahn) Learning what’s safe for you to eat is an ongoing process of education, diligence, and trial-and-error.

To help in your efforts to educate yourself about additives that can adversely affect your health, consult:

Wikipedia Food Additives Information

MedLine Plus Food Additives Information
U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health

Alphabetical Listing of Food Additives, Their Codes, and Links to National Library of Medicine Citations

Food Additives (uses other than as flavouring agents) Database
Administered jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO)

Food Intolerance Network
This Australian Web site is “http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/” and shouldn’t be confused with the .com site by the same name that was created to counter the food additives information mentioned on this site.

Birds Eye in the UK bans artificial food additives from their products

U. S. Food and Drug Administration Explanation of (Justification for?) Food Additives

Food Navigator
Breaking News on Food & Beverage Development in Europe

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