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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

Brominated Vegetable Oil

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

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

Yellow 6

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

Food Dyes: A Rainbow of Risk

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

Color Additives Questions and Answers for Consumers

Color Additive Status List

Color Additives History

Red 40

CARBONATED WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CITRIC ACID, POTASSIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), GUM ACACIA, NATURAL FLAVOR, ESTER GUM, YELLOW 6, BROMINATED VEGETABLE OIL, RED 40.

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

Ester Gum

https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5370

Re‐evaluation of glycerol esters of wood rosin (E 445) as a food additive

SODA

Food Town Stores Inc.

SODA

Soda

Ingredients

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