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Calcium Propionate

Potentially Harmful

Healthline - Calcium Propionate

What Is Calcium Propionate, and Is It Safe?

Pub Med - Effects of 3300 del A-1061 Ter BRCA1 frameshift mutation and calcium propionate on oxidative stress and breast carcinogenesis

Effects of 3300 del A-1061 Ter BRCA1 frameshift mutation and calcium propionate on oxidative stress and breast carcinogenesis

Pub Med - Controlled trial of cumulative behavioural effects of a common bread preservative

Controlled trial of cumulative behavioural effects of a common bread preservative

Pub Med - The short-chain fatty acid propionate increases glucagon and FABP4 production, impairing insulin action in mice and humans

The short-chain fatty acid propionate increases glucagon and FABP4 production, impairing insulin action in mice and humans

Harvard Health - Food Ingredients Under the Microscope 

Food ingredients under the microscope

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

Vegetable Oil

https://time.com/4291505/when-vegetable-oil-isnt-as-healthy-as-you-think/

When Vegetable Oil Isn't as Healthy as You Think

Tert-butylhydroquinone

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

Chemical Cuisine

https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/potential-tbhq-dangers#fda-limits

The Potential Dangers of TBHQ

Butylated hydroxytoluene

[Toxicology of the synthetic antioxidants BHA and BHT in comparison with the natural antioxidant vitamin E]

Final report on the safety assessment of BHT(1)

Degermed Yellow Corn Meal, Sugar, Peanut Butter (peanuts, Sugar, Monoglycerides, Salt), Dextrose, Palm Kernel Oil, Modified Corn Starch, Cocoa, Vegetable Oil (palm, Rice Bran). Contains 2% Or Less Of: Color Added, Salt, Soy Lecithin, Whole Milk Solids, Baking Soda, Distilled Monoglycerides, Yellow Corn Flour, Natural And Artificial Flavor. Freshness Preserved By Calcium Propionate, Tbhq, Citric Acid And Bht.

Corn Starch

Questionable

Healthline - Is Cornstarch Bad for You

Is Cornstarch Bad for You? Nutrition and Health Effects

Monoglycerides

https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/monoglycerides

What Are Monoglycerides and Are They Safe to Consume?

Soy Lecithin

https://chriskresser.com/harmful-or-harmless-soy-lecithin/

Harmful or Harmless: Soy Lecithin

Is Soy Lecithin Good or Bad for Me?

Citric Acid

Pub Med - Potential role of the common food additive manufactured citric acid in eliciting significant inflammatory reactions contributing to serious disease states: A series of four case reports

Potential role of the common food additive manufactured citric acid in eliciting significant inflammatory reactions contributing to serious disease states: A series of four case reports

General Mills Sales, Inc.

Chex Mix Mdy Bdies Brnd Snack Pnt Btr Choc

Chips/Crisps/Snack Mixes - Natural/Extruded (Shelf Stable)

Ingredients

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