Use and Overuse of Food Additives in Edible Products: Health Consequences for Consumers

Laganà, Pasqualina; Avventuroso, Emanuela; Romano, Giovanni; Gioffrè, M; Patanè, Paolo; Parisi, Salvatore; Moscato, Umberto; Delia, S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57042-6_4

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“…Due to the cost reasons, a mixture of DL-malic acid (Fig. 7a) instead of L-malic acid, is more frequently applied as synthetic food additive 65,66 . Another pair of similar α-hydroxy acid enantiomers used as food additive is DL-tartaric acid 67 .…”

Section: Rapid Analysis Of Commercial Fruit Juice Productsmentioning

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Nanopore analysis of cis-diols in fruits

Fan,

Cao,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Nat Commun

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Natural fruits contain a large variety of cis-diols. However, due to the lack of a high-resolution sensor that can simultaneously identify all cis-diols without a need of complex sample pretreatment, direct and rapid analysis of fruits in a hand-held device has never been previously reported. Nanopore, a versatile single molecule sensor, can be specially engineered to perform this task. A hetero-octameric Mycobacterium smegmatis porin A (MspA) nanopore modified with a sole phenylboronic acid (PBA) adapter is prepared. This engineered MspA accurately recognizes 1,2-diphenols, alditols, α-hydroxy acids and saccharides in prune, grape, lemon, different varieties of kiwifruits and commercial juice products. Assisted with a custom machine learning program, an accuracy of 99.3% is reported and the sample pretreatment is significantly simplified. Enantiomers such as DL-malic acids can also be directly identified, enabling sensing of synthetic food additives. Though demonstrated with fruits, these results suggest wide applications of nanopore in food and drug administration uses.

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Section: Rapid Analysis Of Commercial Fruit Juice Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nanopore analysis of cis-diols in fruits

Fan,

Cao,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Nat Commun

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“…Due to the importance of awareness of food additives and their impact on the human body, modern technology has paid attention to this by creating a mobile application that examines the side effects of food additives via the Semantic Web (Duygu Çelik Ertuğrul (2016) by presenting a research project on a safe mobile food consumption system (FoodWiki) as shown in Figure (2), where this developed system checks the ingredients written on the contents label on food boxes in the market, then explains each ingredient and warns consumers about the presence of items that are not suitable for them, such as those suffering from heart diseases, allergies, or An increase in blood levels, etc. [37].…”

Section: The Effect Of Msg On Kidney Liver and Heartmentioning

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“…Food additives have a special place in the food production process; on the other hand, consumers began to search for ready-to-eat food options, but with safety and health standards, so that many people became willing to spend more money to buy (biological) foods free of dangerous industrial additives [1,2]. Chemicals called (food additives) are defined as substances that added to food for a specific purpose, and they are either natural or industrial [3].…”

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The Effect of Food Additives (Monosodium Glutamate - MSG) On Human Health - A Critical Review

Al-Agili

2020

JAUC

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According to the famous saying of the medieval physician Paracelsus, "There is no substance without poison. Only the dose determines the extent of the toxic effect." Here, the effect of monosodium glutamate (MSG) on human health and the risks to the health of its frequent use in the short term was addressed and the long term was evaluated according to the studies of several researchers specializing in this regard. Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is known as one of the most popular food additives that classified as a flavor enhancer. Parts of the evidence were reviewed from the literature explaining its effect on immune system cells in addition to metabolic disorders by exposing individuals to obesity and what is known as metabolic syndrome, as well as reviewing a lot of evidence indicating the effect of MSG intake on the health of the kidney, liver and other parts of the body through Practical application to laboratory rats and clinical studies in humans.

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