Big Food Is Making Us Fat & Sick – Tell the FDA to Ban Ultra-Processed Foods
Big Food Is Making Us Fat & Sick – Tell the FDA to Ban Ultra-Processed Foods
Ultraprocessed Food Ingredient of the Week – The Laxative That’s a Key Ingredient in 3D-Printed Fake Meat
When we heard that “Perfecta” 3D-printed fake meat from Steakholder Foods would be sold at grocery stores, we figured we should investigate.
What we found were the typical veggie burger ingredients: lots of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including canola oil, modified corn starch, soy fiber, soy flour, and soy protein. They’re engineered to tolerate massive amounts of Monsanto (now Bayer)’s carcinogenic glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide and other toxic herbicides like glufosinate, 2,4-D, dicamba, quizalofop, and isoxaflutole.
But, one ingredient stood out: methylcellulose. If you’ve never heard of it, start looking for it on food packages. It’s the active ingredient in the laxative Citrucel, and in Perfecta “filet mignon” it’s the third ingredient listed after water and soy flour.
Methylcellulose is one of the ingredients named in former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler’s petition asking the FDA to stop treating the ingredients in ultraprocessed food as “generally recognized as safe” and to make companies prove their use is safe. Kessler proved Big Tobacco was deliberately making cigarettes more addictive and, by consequence, more deadly. Now, he’s making the same case against Big Food.
Currently, methylcellulose is one of the ingredients the Food and Drug Administration considers “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS).
Kessler filed a petition with the FDA asking it to revoke methylcellulose’s GRAS status and require food companies to prove that their use of methylcellulose—in ultraprocessed food—is actually safe.
Finish reading: https://organicconsumers.org/methylcellulose-a-laxative-and-a-key-ingredient-in-3d-printed-fake-meat/