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High Fructose Corn Syrup

Potentially Harmful

Sucrose-sweetened beverages increase fat storage in the liver, muscle, and visceral fat depot: a 6-mo randomized intervention study

Adverse metabolic effects of dietary fructose: results from the recent epidemiological, clinical, and mechanistic studies

Consuming fructose-sweetened, not glucose-sweetened, beverages increases visceral adiposity and lipids and decreases insulin sensitivity in overweight/obese humans

Fructose, insulin resistance, and metabolic dyslipidemia

Added Sugar in the Diet

Pub Med - Sugar

Impact of sugar on the body, brain, and behavior

Merriam Webster - Corn Syrup

high-fructose corn syrup

Artificial Flavor

https://www.ewg.org/foodscores/content/natural-vs-artificial-flavors/

Synthetic ingredients in Natural Flavors and Natural Flavors in Artificial flavors

Toxicity of synthetic flavorings, nature identical and artificial, to hematopoietic tissue cells of rodents

Assessment of Grape, Plum and Orange Synthetic Food Flavourings Using in vivo Acute Toxicity Tests

The GRAS provision - The FEMA GRAS program and the safety and regulation of flavors in the United States

We are what we eat: Regulatory gaps in the United States that put our health at risk

Food-Induced Anaphylaxis: Role of Hidden Allergens and Cofactors

SITM - Harvard University - Vanillin

The Flavor Rundown: Natural vs. Artificial Flavors

Soybean Oil

https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/161/2/bqz044/5698148

Dysregulation of Hypothalamic Gene Expression and the Oxytocinergic System by Soybean Oil Diets in Male Mice 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200117080827.htm

America's most widely consumed oil causes genetic changes in the brain

Health implications of high dietary omega-6 polyunsaturated Fatty acids

An Increase in the Omega-6/Omega-3 Fatty Acid Ratio Increases the Risk for Obesity

Healthy intakes of n-3 and n-6 fatty acids: estimations considering worldwide diversity

Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73)

FOOD INDUSTRY - SOLVENTS FOR EXTRACTING VEGETABLE OILS

Tert-butylhydroquinone

Chemoprotective and carcinogenic effects of tert-butylhydroquinone and its metabolites

Investigating Molecular Mechanisms of Immunotoxicity and the Utility of ToxCast for Immunotoxicity Screening of Chemicals Added to Food

https://www.cspinet.org/eating-healthy/chemical-cuisine

Chemical Cuisine

ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, SOYBEAN OIL (WITH TBHQ [ANTI-OXIDANT]), WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, SALT, BAKING SODA, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR (CONTAINS MILK), AMMONIUM BICARBONATE.

Enriched Flour

Questionable

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ENRICHMENT OF FLOUR AND BREAD

Intake of whole grains, refined grains, and cereal fiber measured with 7-d diet records and associations with risk factors for chronic disease1–3

The Kroger Co.

ANIMAL CRACKERS

Cookies & Biscuits

Ingredients

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