Quotes about Artificial Flavor from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "But when you produce it by mixing vinegar with amyl alcohol, and using sulfuric acid as a catalyst, you get amyl acetate as an artificial flavor.
Not surprisingly, the flavor industry is highly secretive. Legend has it that a German scientist discovered methyl anthranilate, one of the first artificial flavors, by accident while mixing chemicals in the laboratory. The lab suddenly filled with the sweet smell of grapes, and voila! Methyl anthranilate soon became the main ingredient in grape Kool-Aid."- Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
 "The only ingredients listed on the packaging are apples and artificial flavor. Until 2005, "fatty acids" were also included in the labeling. "I wouldn't have known that there was fatty acid in the Grapple except for the fact that I have a very bad reaction to fatty acids—explosive diarrhea," writes "Pete" online. "I was on a road trip with my family one minute in the middle of a snowstorm and the next minute I was in the car in the middle of a shit blizzard."
Snyder dismisses these protestations as mere sour grapes: "If five percent of people complain, I've got no problem with that."- Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) |
 "Granola (Rolled Whole Oats, Crisp Rice [Rice, Sugar, Salt, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Malt Flavoring], High Fructose Corn Syrup, Brown Sugar, Partially^Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Rolled Whole Wheat), Raisins, Corn Syrup, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Soybean, Cottonseed and Palm Kernel Oil), Sugar, Fructose, Corn Syrup Solids, Glycerin, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Honey, Dextrose, Natural and artificial flavor, Salt, Fractionated Coconut Oil, Soy Lecithin, Nonfat Dry Milk . . . [the remaining ingredients are seven vitamins and iron]."- Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "But its list of ingredients says: Liquid soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, whey, water, salt, vegetable mono- and diglycerides and soy lecithin (emulsifiers), sodium benzoate (to preserve freshness), artificial flavor, phosphoric acid (acidu-lant), vitamin A palmitate, colored with beta carotene (source of vitamin A) Translation: soy oil and additives. Soy oil may be a perfectly reasonable cooking and salad oil on its own, but margarine makers expect you to like what they have done to it and believe it is good for you." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) |
 "The corn syrup, flour, sugar, cornstarch, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, salt, and artificial flavor are all still there. Like other candies, it is basically a sugary concoction containing nothing that your body even remotely needs. Without any fiber to fill you up, foods like this can really pack in the calories.
If you find Twizzlers or other sugary candies on your shelf, it helps to remember the third guideline in this program. We choose foods that are not only vegan and low in fat but also low Gl."- Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "I have only whole foods, whole grains, no refined flour, no foods with artificial flavor, color, or preservatives, in fact, as much organically-raised stuff as I can find. Absolutely no sugar, no artificial sweeteners, no hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils, practically no canned stuff—just real food like it's supposed to be! And you know what, I've gotten to like it better. That organic stuff is tastier, and I've been able to taper down this prednisone faster than after the other 2 times I was hospitalized. "- Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.) "I hope you're also getting rid of processed foods, and anything with artificial flavor, color, or preservatives." "LaDonna's been on me about that. That girl ... in college it was coffee and cigarettes, pizzas and sodas . . . now she's lecturing me on health food!" "I'm glad she's changed . . . it's better for her family, too." "That's why she did it, she says. Babies sure do change a woman. Now how was that glucose-insulin tolerance test of mine? Do I go high complex carbohydrate or low carbohydrate, high protein? And what vitamins and minerals do I take?" - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.) |
 "And no wonder, given that Lucky Charms, for instance, is composed of whole-grain oats, sugar, canola oil, and marsh-mallows, which are made up of sugar, corn starch, corn syrup, dextrose, gelatin, two yellow dyes, blue dye, red dye, and artificial flavor. But just in case you, concerned parent, were beginning to suspect that "nutrition" is not actually lurking somewhere in this bewildering morass of ingredients, a "whole grain" banner is draped prominently across the Lucky Charms box for your edification and convenience."- Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) |
 "Current FDA regulations state that any of these chemicals need be listed on packaging only as "artificial flavor" or "imitation flavor." If there is only one chemical used, it might be listed, but to simulate a particular flavor, a chemist must often use a sensitive mixture of a number of chemicals
Most of the artificial flavors are on the GRAS list. Although they are not as dangerous as the food colors, they are much more widely used. Some of them can be toxic to the nervous system, the kidneys, or liver, but in the amounts in which they are commonly used, they are usually fairly safe."- Elson M. Haas, M.D., Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "She went on to explain that MSG (monosodium glutamate) is an artificial flavor enhancer that acts as a neurotoxin and is notorious for causing a host of symptoms and sometimes very severe reactions in addition to contributing to the development of chronic conditions. She further explained that in general, chemical additives can accumulate in your system as they exceed your body's ability to process them, causing a person to react to things they had been able to neutralize in the past; and that a host of chronic d/s-eases such as cancer can be related to their long-term consumption as well."- Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.) |
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