Food additives that increase the risk of colon cancer

If your diet is full of processed foods such as mayonnaise, cakes and cookies, ice cream, chocolate and peanut butter, your digestive system may be at risk!

One of the additives that are added to processed foods is emulsifiers that act as a mediator. That is, they combine liquids that do not mix normally, such as oil and water; they stick to water on the one side and oil on the other side, and this way, they keep these two together. For example, if there was no emulsifier in mayonnaise sauce, you would see a layer of oil on top and a thick white layer at the bottom of the sauce jar, or if it was not in chocolate, the fat could be seen as white spots on it! Now, how do we know that the food we buy has an emulsifier? Pay a careful attention to the ingredients imprinted on the package. Emulsifiers may both be extracted from natural plantary and animal sources, such as lecithin or E322, and synthetic-based sources, such as polysorbate 80 or E433, or a combination of both, like mono and diglyceride or E471.

Although the use of approved emulsifiers in food is allowed, research has shown that excessive use of some of them can cause digestive problems such as damage to the intestine and increase the risk of colon cancer.