How many food additives are there for lunch today?

How many food additives are there for lunch today?

By the way, I often see people coming out of the office building and entering the convenience store all at once at 12 o'clock in the office district at noon.
We are lining up at the cash register with lunch boxes and salads, soft drinks and diet drinks, and Tokuhomark tea.
If you're in this line every day and want to live a healthy and long life, you should review your diet right now.
Let's take a look at the world of food we eat every day, using the example of lunch we bought at a convenience store one day.

First of all, lunch box. Please read the ingredient display aloud once.
The more you bite your tongue as you read, the more you should see the names of the slurries and food additives.
It is said that we eat more than 80 kinds of food additives a day, most of which are refined petroleum substances.
Many of the additives used in Japan are regulated in type and concentration in Europe and the United States.

There are also "food additive bites" such as those that are suspected to be carcinogenic and those that appear to be carcinogenic due to chemical changes depending on the combination, and the harmful effects on the human body are really endless when written down, but they are often used. I would like to introduce the standard food additives that are available.
・ Sodium benzoate (preservative) ・ BHA / BHT (antioxidant) ・ Sodium glutamate (umami seasoning) ・ Sorbic acid / potassium sorbate (preservative) ・ Sodium nitrite (color former) ・ Red No. 2 / red No. 3 / Green No. 3 / Cochineal pigment / Blue No. 1 / Yellow No. 4 (colorant) ・ Caraginan (thickening stabilizer)

The standard item in lunch boxes and side dishes is "monosodium glutamate."
It is an umami seasoning. It is often used for fried chicken, hamburger steak, and dried daikon radish as a side dish, but "sodium glutamate" is a factor in mental illness, epilepsy, and increased visceral fat, and causes heart disease and diabetes. , Increases the risk of metabolic syndrome.

"Sodium nitrite" is a color former that is often used in processed products such as hams and sausages.
It is also known that when two of these, the preservative "sorbic acid" used for longevity, undergo a chemical change, they produce substances that are suspected to be carcinogenic.
In addition, animal experiments have demonstrated that the colorants used in brightly colored takuwan and shibazuke are all highly carcinogenic and easily induce allergies.

We want to get closer to the level of Japan, the world's worst additive nation, at least to the level of Europe.