FDA Bans 7 Artificial Flavors Commonly Found In Ice Cream And Candy.
Seven common flavoring ingredients found to cause cancer. 
From the article cited below,
“After extensive research that found carcinogenic effects in lab animals, the FDA has officially banned seven artificial additives, most of which are commonly found as an artificial flavoring ingredient in packaged ice cream, chewing gum, baked goods and candy.
Although one of the artificial ingredients had already been removed from the FDA’s approved list, six of the ingredients — benzophenone, ethyl acrylate, eugenyl methyl ether, myrcene, pulegone and pyridine — are currently commonly used as imitations of natural mint, citrus and cinnamon flavors.
Benzophenone, for instance, has been found in breakfast cereals, baked goods and frozen dairy products, while pulegone is used as a peppermint or spearmint flavoring in mints and chewing gum.”
We often get these types of bans after years of being told the chemicals were ok only to find out that there are serious risks to our health and the health of our kids.
The reality is that the thousands of new chemicals added to our foods every year aren’t studied.
We don’t know how they effect us or our families.
If you think about it, we might be given a chemical medication in tiny mg amounts that have a big impact on us, yet somehow we don’t think about how similar or greater amounts of other chemicals in our foods and bodies effect us.
One of the best things you can do on your own to improve your health and reduce your risks of serious health problems is to try to avoid as many of these chemical additives that you can.
The people that ended up getting cancer from consuming one of these 7 chemicals that are found in so many processed foods often disguised as some kind of flavoring probably will never know why they got cancer.
Undoubtedly some people are more susceptible than others.
The problem is how do you know if you or your child is one of those particularly susceptible?
References
https://www.fda.gov/Food/NewsEvents/ConstituentUpdates/ucm622475.htm
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannafantozzi/2018/10/09/fda-bans-seven-artificial-flavors-commonly-found-in-ice-cream-and-candy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK373188/
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/___-Pulegone#section=Top
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16741556
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