Some substances don’t mix naturally, like oil and water. But many recipes call for these incompatible ingredients to be featured together. That’s where emulsifiers come in. These substances allow ...

You check ingredient labels for obvious culprits like high fructose corn syrup or artificial colors, but there’s a common food additive that’s flying under the radar while potentially wreaking havoc ...

In Europe and North America, 30 to 60% of dietary energy intake in adults comes from ultra-processed foods. An increasing number of epidemiological studies suggest a link between higher consumption ...

Fact checked by Jennifer Klump Key Takeaways Emulsifiers in foods may harm your gut and increase health risks. Some studies ...

Emulsifiers are found in a whole range of foods, including yogurts, ice creams, chocolate bars, margarines and even some breads. But could this common food additive increase the risk of developing ...

Widely used by the food industry, emulsifiers – a type of food additive – are found in many daily foods (sliced bread, ice creams, crème fraîche, plant milks, etc.). Given their omnipresence in our ...

To gain more knowledge about how ultra-processed food affects us, we need new research methods, claim researchers. Now they ...

“The complexity of things—the things within things—just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.” –Alice Munro If you want to invent a new food additive, the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Various food additive emulsifiers, including total carrageenans, carrageenan gum, tripotassium phosphate, sodium citrate, and guar gum, can increase the risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D), showed a recent ...

A mixture of additives commonly found in artificially sweetened beverages increased risk of type 2 diabetes by 13% among a group of nearly 110,000 people, researchers reported in the journal PLOS ...