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Food additives are substances added to food to preserve flavor or enhance its taste and appearance. Some additives have been used for centuries. For example, records have it that peoel had ever preserved food by pickling (with vinegar) salting, as with bacon, reserving sweets or using sulfur dioxide as in some wines. With the advent of processed foods in the second half of the 20 the countries, many additives have been introduced of both natural and artificial origin.

In fact, except the natural food every food processed by the man-made is added with additives. Without the food additives, several foods can’t appear. Without the food additives, the food can’t be made and kept. So, the additives are very important in our life. But the food additives bring a lot of problems to our life too. Many of them are actually overused or even misused. Therefore, the food additives must used in proper amount.

There are many kinds of food additives, such as lemon pedantic, antiseptic etc. If you eat the food additives excessively, they may result in many dangers to your body. They may increase the heart disease which has been proved to emerge 30 percent higher than in the past. Meanwhile, they will cause many other diseases, for example, cancers, hypertension, and high cholesterol and so on. So the food producer should use the food additives in the appropriate amount. As to the government, it should strengthen the force about the supervision.

We should keep a lookout of the harm of the food conditions. We can take the following measures to secure a safe living.

First, we should look at the “reverse side’’ when we buy the provisions. Choose the foods with lack additions as far as possible. Usually, those packages of products from formal companied are printed with information about the addictives added to the foods inside. Second, we should choose the commodity with low process limit when purchasing. If possible, we should buy the raw materials and process them ourselves. If we do not have enough time or energy to do so, we should choose the foods with the least processing procedures. Third, we should get an idea of the possible effects that the addictives may have on our health and take the foods with the least harmful addictives.we should look at the “reverse side’’ when we buy the provisions. Choose the foods with lack additions as far as possible. Usually, those packages of products from formal companied are printed with information about the addictives added to the foods inside. Second, we should choose the commodity with low process limit when purchasing. If possible, we should buy the raw materials and process them ourselves. If we do not have enough time or energy to do so, we should choose the foods with the least processing procedures. Third, we should get an idea of the possible effects that the addictives may have on our health and take the foods with the least harmful addictives.