Our Food Is Full of These 5 Chemicals

You can try to eat a clean diet, but it would be very hard to avoid these chemicals. These 5 key chemicals are used to make our food taste the way it’s supposed to taste, look the way we expect it to look, and generally survive the journey to our tables intact. Join Michael Aranda for a dive into food production in this new episode of SciShow!
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red dye #5
http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compo...

http://www.tfl.com/web/files/eubanazo...

http://www.livescience.com/35905-red-...

http://www.ddwcolor.com/colorant/caro...


xanthan gum

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts...

http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-...

http://www.ift.org/knowledge-center/r...

http://www.foodadditivesworld.com/sta...

carrageenan

http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y4765e/...

citric acid

http://kitchenscience.sci-toys.com/ox...

http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/10-i...

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/8045/...

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajour...

http://www.drugs.com/inactive/citric-...

http://foodreference.about.com/od/Foo...

http://www.fgsc.net/asilomar/citric.html


sodium benzoate

http://www.fao.org/docrep/V5030e/V503...

http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIlln...