I bought a small baked ham joint from Sainsbury's, and have been looking forward to it. Yesterday morning I got it out of the freezer ready to have with salad and chips last night, and I just thought I'd check out the ingredients. One of them was diphosphates; I've no idea what they are or do, but the very word scared the **** out of me, and I consigned it into the rubbish bin. I mean why the **** do they need to add chemicals to, of all things, baked ham?
It's always to improve profits or to comply with regulations to protect you. Disodium phosphate is used to enhance food characteristics like nutritional value and cooking performance. There is "some confidence" of its safety. You can probably avoid it and plenty of other more risky things in food by going total organic as I have. We aren't being told the facts on all the things in our food. Only now, for example, after seemingly endless argument about glyphosate ("Roundup" and other such herbicides) we are now finally getting the word that yes, glyphosate is highly suspected of being carcinogenic, making the avoidance of all foods containing GMOs something to avoid on principle.
Yep. I've always tried to avoid food which has been interfered with (processed), but baked ham? Of all the flavourful foodstuffs, why on earth would anyone want that delicious flavour altered with a chemical? And cooked meat lasts in a freezer for months so why add another chemical designed to preserve it? And there's probably one for colour enhancement too.
