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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

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

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

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, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CITRIC ACID, POTASSIUM CITRATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, POTASSIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), GUM ACACIA, ESTER GUM, ASPARTAME, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, YELLOW 5.

Citric Acid

Questionable

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

PINEAPPLE SODA, PINEAPPLE

Santa Fe Pro Musica, Inc.

PINEAPPLE SODA, PINEAPPLE

Soda

Ingredients

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