The 7 Most Harmful Ingredients in Food

None of us wantonly exposes our bodies, or our children’s bodies, to the harmful chemicals in processed foods.

Here are the “Scary Seven” harmful ingredients you should avoid in food!

But with more than 3,000 food additives such as preservatives, flavorings, colors and other ingredients added to US foods, it’s difficult to avoid them unless you eliminate all processed foods.

Obviously the best course of action would be to avoid processed foods completely, but for some of us that may not be practical. The next best thing is to avoid foods containing ingredients that cause the most damage.

Andrea Donsky, founder of NaturallySavvy.com, highlights seven ingredients you should avoid eating, and refers to them as the “Scary Seven.”

“Unjunk Your Junk Food” lists ingredients commonly found in packaged foods across North America that caused the most harm to our health into seven categories.

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Over the course of two years Donsky and her co-author, Lisa Tsakos, wrote “Unjunk Your Junk Food,” in which they thoroughly researched ingredients commonly found in packaged foods across North America and grouped the ones that caused the most harm to our health into seven categories.

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