Book description
E621, E160a carotene, E160d lycopene, E101 riboflavin, E300 ascorbic
acid, E330 citric acid, and E296 malic acid are all the ingredients of
an everyday, ordinary tomato. Stefan Gates on E Numbers is a mischievous
and myth-busting celebration of 'E's', the additives and preservatives
that make up Britain's most feared ingredients. Most of the food we eat
has them, yet we are hugely suspicious of them and believe that they
cause everything from twitchy eyelids to colon cancer. In this book
Stefan discusses just how bad our food would taste, how wrong it would
look and how potentially lethal it would be if we didn't have E numbers.
He lists and analyses all 319 E's approved for use in food and also
talks about naturally occurring E's, how E's can save your life,
labelling issues (how to understand them), how much you can safely eat
and what, if anything, is wrong with cheap food. He also investigates
the scare stories, allergies and potential downsides of the
multi-billion pound food industry. If you don't like E's you don't have
to eat them but you can make that choice based on facts not fear. It is
true to say that without E numbers we would not have supermarkets.
Without this book you cannot make an informed decision about what you
are buying and eating.
