Food dyes are bad! (Poison)

[Mhurron]

Re: Food dyes are bad! (Poison)

Offensive and complimentary at the same time. Would you care to explain?

Ok, honestly, your last post looked like it was written by a 6th grade english flunky.

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[DakAttack]

Re: Food dyes are bad! (Poison)

Offensive and complimentary at the same time. Would you care to explain?

What Mhurron said plus the use of "unfunctional" and "inception". If you're going to talk science you have to get the easy stuff right.

[DieselBoy09]

Re: Food dyes are bad! (Poison)

Last time I checked, inception worked, although I should have put a "the" in front of it. Also, what is wrong with unfunctional? Granted, dysfunctional or nonfunctional would have been better. Unfunctional is a word: Unfunctional Synonyms, Unfunctional Antonyms | Thesaurus.com & Unfunctional | Define Unfunctional at Dictionary.com, even if Firefox doesn't recognize it. As for grammar... this is a FFXI forum and I was posting in haste, it didn't matter to me to make it perfect given this outlet and audience. If you call into question my knowledge in the subject matter, then find the problems with what I wrote rather than questioning it based on my written mistakes.

[Mhurron]

Re: Food dyes are bad! (Poison)

When your knowledge is being presented in a written form, no matter where it is being written, presentation matters in conveying competency.

Wall'o'text, tl;dr

[DakAttack]

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Unfunctional is not a word. And inception isn't the correct word to use in that context' the word you were looking for was conception.

It's hard to trust what you're saying when you're not saying it properly.

[Etra]

Re: Food dyes are bad! (Poison)

Unfunctional is not a word.

Unfunctional is a word, but generally not recognized as proper vocabulary.

[Icemage]

Re: Food dyes are bad! (Poison)

Unfunctional is a word, but generally not recognized as proper vocabulary.

Unfunctional is indeed a word, and it is in fact correct in usage. However, it's almost never used except by people who don't know that simply sticking "un-" in front of a word - while it is often correct - does not produce a commonly usable word.

In context, I would say that this particular application was due to ignorance more than a calculated attempt at showing off obscure vocabulary (as opposed to that young lady that won the most recent Scripp's Spelling Bee with the word "cymotrichous", for instance).


Icemage

[Balfree]

Re: Food dyes are bad! (Poison)

give kids proper food like

!!!! MEAT !!!!
!!!! VEGETABLES !!!!
!!!! FRUIT !!!!
!!!! GRAINS !!!!

WHO KNEW IT WAS SO EASY D:

[Murphie]

Re: Food dyes are bad! (Poison)

Seriously, people. It's not that hard. Protein, Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, water. Eat them!

[Takelli]

Re: Food dyes are bad! (Poison)

Seriously, people. It's not that hard. Protein, Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, water. Eat them!

Its actually not THAT easy though. Most of the stuff is GMO, which affects our bodies badly. Organic is the way to go if you want to eat healthy though.

[DakAttack]

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Genetically modified crops aren't as bad as people like to think. I, for one, can't wait to bite into an ear of grapes. Or finally taste what snozberries really taste like. Or even grow a fucking money tree. The possibilities are endless!

[Etra]

Re: Food dyes are bad! (Poison)

Its actually not THAT easy though. Most of the stuff is GMO, which affects our bodies badly. Organic is the way to go if you want to eat healthy though.

Organic foods cannot sustain our growing world populous. It's fine if you want to go organic (and pay about 2.5 times the price of "normal food"), but don't suggest it as the only out.

[Icemage]

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Its actually not THAT easy though. Most of the stuff is GMO, which affects our bodies badly. Organic is the way to go if you want to eat healthy though.

Some proof would be nice. Hormone-infused stuff is "probably" not as good for you as other foods. Pesticides are obviously bad, but you can (generally) wash them off even if they're used - and you should always wash your fruits and vegetables anyway, regardless of the source. Genetically modified crops that are resistant to diseases and/or grow faster, though? Give me a break.

This is EXACTLY the sort of nonsense I was talking about earlier. "Organic is the way to go if you want to eat healthy though". Such complete BS. Stop falling for the marketing hype. A bag of potato chips made with organic potatoes will still hurt you as much as one made from more normal potatoes because they're freaking potato chips.


Icemage

[DieselBoy09]

Re: Food dyes are bad! (Poison)

Some proof would be nice. Hormone-infused stuff is "probably" not as good for you as other foods. Pesticides are obviously bad, but you can (generally) wash them off even if they're used - and you should always wash your fruits and vegetables anyway, regardless of the source. Genetically modified crops that are resistant to diseases and/or grow faster, though? Give me a break.

This is EXACTLY the sort of nonsense I was talking about earlier. "Organic is the way to go if you want to eat healthy though". Such complete BS. Stop falling for the marketing hype. A bag of potato chips made with organic potatoes will still hurt you as much as one made from more normal potatoes because they're freaking potato chips.


Icemage

There is nothing wrong with GMO's. So long as there is nothing new produced by the gmo, such as a toxin, then there should be no harmful effect. What might be a problem is the unforeseeable effects that gmo's might impart to viruses interacting with the GMO's.

Hormone altered foods can be a problem though because hormones are hydrophobic and easily absorbed into cells. This wouldn't be a problem if they were not able to bind to receptors in or on the cells, but a lot of hormones are similar enough to human derived hormones that they induce the same effects. A case of this is the effects of eating too much phytoestrogen (plant estrogen).

[Samson]

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The cost of sugar in the US is artificially inflated and the cost of corn artificially deflated making bottling companies choose HFCS instead of 'real' sugar for most things on cost reasons.



Ok, no its not. Glucose is a monosaccharide, like Fructose is. Glucose is as simple a molecule as you get while still being a sugar and is directly metabolized by the body. Sugar, the actual ingredient, the white stuff you buy in a bag, is sucrose, a disaccharide comprised of 2 simple sugars, glucose and fructose and has to be broken down (by sucrase) into its component monosaccharides to be metabolized.

Cane Sugar is by and large a marketing thing because it is not the primary source of sugar (that would be vegetables like sugar beets for industrial uses) but looks very good to say 'we're made with real sugar'. Jones Soda in the US flaunts its use of Real Cane sugar while the Throwback products from Pepsi simply say sugar, probably sourced from much cheaper beet sugar.

I wasn't going to post in this thread, but this post had me going.

I worked for a soft drink company for almost 10 years. Given that time, you can learn quite a bit.

Mhurron is correct on the usage of HFCS. It cuts cost dramatically. The problem is, when you taste a soda with HFCS as compared to sugar, there is definitely a difference.

The company I worked for was Pepsi. I was still employed with them when they first introduced 'Throwback'. Then, they made sure we were knowledgable about the product. When it first came about, it was made with cane sugar. It even said it on the label, but most consumers weren't aware of the difference of Throwback to regular Dew or Pepsi. Nowadays, years later, it appears that it's no longer cane sugar (maybe their way of cutting costs again?). It just states 'Sugar' as opposed to 'cane sugar'.