This is an interesting database I happened to find. It contains a list of all ingredients added directly to food that FDA has either approved as food additives or listed or affirmed as GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe). As of this writing there are 3969 items on the list, including many manmade chemicals.
The database maintained by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) under an ongoing program known as the Priority-based Assessment of Food Additives (PAFA). PAFA contains administrative, chemical and toxicological information on over 2000 substances directly added to food, including substances regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as direct, “secondary” direct, and color additives, and Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) and prior-sanctioned substances. I
You may be alarmed at some of the substances that are allowed to be added to our food supply. Another reason to get your food as close to the grower as possible, in it’s fresh, whole, unprocessed form.
