Food: it does not flow naturally. How chemicals in food is harming you.
Food does not flow. Grains clump. Salt absorbs moisture. Flour cakes when left in the air.
Have you ever seen shredded carrots shredded flowing in any manner?
Nature does not design food to be poured like sand through an hourglass.
Yet, modern industry has made many foods free flowing. In fact, we even advertise free flowing noodles, salt or flour.
How does it happen?
Take salt. Left on the table, it absorbs humidity and forms lumps. To prevent this, manufacturers add anti-caking agents like sodium aluminosilicate or magnesium carbonate.
These chemicals keep crystals apart, ensuring you can sprinkle salt. It will flow freely. But they also add compounds that your body would never have encountered in nature.
Sugar behaves the same way. Brown sugar in its raw form hardens because molasses retains moisture. To make it free flowing, it is refined and treated so it does not clump.
Noodles are another example. Traditional handmade noodles are sticky because starch and water bind. In factories, additives like modified starches or gums coat them, so they separate. It makes the noodles look glossy on your plate.
Even powdered milk does not dissolve. To make it instant and free flowing, it is spray-dried with emulsifiers like lecithin. Cocoa powder without processing forms clumps when added to water.
Manufacturers treat it with alkali and flow agents to make it blend smoothly.
The transition is always the same.
Nature creates food with imperfections. Food sticks, clumps and is uneven and rough. Industry intervenes to make it uniform, predictable, and easy to package.
We accept these interventions as normal. We dont realise how much chemistry is required to make this happen.
Of course small amounts will not matter. Chronic exposure will.
Anti-caking agents, emulsifiers, and modified starches have been linked to gut irritation. It create gut imbalance and inflammation.
While each dose has safe limits, cumulatively it adds up.
What flows freely in your kitchen may not flow freely in your body. Stickiness, clumping, and binding are natural. Eat naturally as much as you can.
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