How To Recognize And Eliminate The 5 Worst Artificial Food Additives

It’s not uncommon for companies to use confusing labels, nutrition facts and pictures to try to trick us into thinking the product is healthy, delicious and, well, food. The ugly truth is sometimes, this is far from the truth.

As a general rule of thumb, if the nutrition label includes ingredients you can’t pronounce, the snack probably isn’t the best thing for your bod. These additives come with some not-so-cool side effects that can include (but aren’t limited to) weight gain, slowing of the metabolism, food allergies, decreased absorption of nutrients and even cancer.

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