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Brominated Vegetable Oil

Potentially Harmful

https://www.ewg.org/research/food-additive-science

Food Additives State of the Science

  Brominated vegetable oil: Why is BVO in my drink?

US Food Additives Banned in Europe

Acesulfame Potassium

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-09/wios-gba091514.php

Gut bacteria, artificial sweeteners and glucose intolerance

The benefits and risks of acesulfame potassium

Potassium Benzoate

https://www.fda.gov/food/chemicals/questions-and-answers-occurrence-benzene-soft-drinks-and-other-beverages

Questions and Answers on the Occurrence of Benzene in Soft Drinks and Other Beverages

Benzoic acid and its derivatives as naturally occurring compounds in foods and as additives: Uses, exposure, and controversy

Benzene as a Chemical Hazard in Processed Foods

Sensitivity to food additives, vaso-active amines and salicylates: a review of the evidence

European Food Safety Authority

Aspartame

Chemical Cuisine - Safety of food additives

Aspartame administered in feed, beginning prenatally through life span, induces cancers of the liver and lung in male Swiss mice

Identification of aspartame-induced haematopoietic and lymphoid tumours in rats after lifetime treatment

Consumption of artificial sweetener– and sugar-containing soda and risk of lymphoma and leukemia in men and women

Yellow 5

Artificial Food Colors and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Symptoms: Conclusions to Dye for

Mechanisms of behavioral, atopic, and other reactions to artificial food colors in children

Food Dyes: A Rainbow of Risk

Color Additive Status List

Color Additives Questions and Answers for Consumers

Color Additives History

CARBONATED WATER, ORANGE JUICE FROM CONCENTRATE WITH OTHER NATURAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID, POTASSIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), POTASSIUM CITRATE, ASPARTAME, GUM ACACIA, CITRUS PECTIN, CAFFEINE, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (TO PROTECT FLAVOR), YELLOW 5, BROMINATED VEGETABLE OIL.

Natural Flavor

Questionable

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

Synthetic ingredients in Natural Flavors and Natural Flavors in Artificial flavors

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

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

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

DIET SODA

Food Town Stores Inc.

DIET SODA

Soda

Ingredients

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