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Artificial Flavor

Potentially Harmful

https://www.ewg.org/foodscores/content/natural-vs-artificial-flavors/

Synthetic ingredients in Natural Flavors and Natural Flavors in Artificial flavors

Toxicity of synthetic flavorings, nature identical and artificial, to hematopoietic tissue cells of rodents

Assessment of Grape, Plum and Orange Synthetic Food Flavourings Using in vivo Acute Toxicity Tests

The GRAS provision - The FEMA GRAS program and the safety and regulation of flavors in the United States

We are what we eat: Regulatory gaps in the United States that put our health at risk

Food-Induced Anaphylaxis: Role of Hidden Allergens and Cofactors

SITM - Harvard University - Vanillin

The Flavor Rundown: Natural vs. Artificial Flavors

Nitrite

Nitrosamine and related food intake and gastric and oesophageal cancer risk: a systematic review of the epidemiological evidence

Red and Processed Meat and Colorectal Cancer Incidence: Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies

Beef, Pork, Stuffed Olives (olives, Water, Minced Pimento, Salt, Less Than 2% Of Lactic Acid, Sodium Alginate, Guar Um, Calcium Chloride), Water, Sweet Red Peppers (fresh Sweet Red Peppers, Water, Citric Acid), Salt, Sugar, Dextrose, Sodium Phosphate, Flavorings, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite.

Sodium Phosphate

Questionable

https://www.healthline.com/health/sodium-phosphate#uses-in-food

https://www.ewg.org/foodscores/ingredients/7347-SodiumPhosphates/

Overall Sodium Phosphates is of moderate concern in food

Understanding sources of dietary phosphorus in the treatment of patients with chronic kidney disease

Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Fluoride.

High dietary phosphorus intake is associated with all-cause mortality: results from NHANES III1,2,3

Increasing dietary phosphorus intake from food additives: potential for negative impact on bone health

Relations of serum phosphorus and calcium levels to the incidence of cardiovascular disease in the community

Citric Acid

Pub Med - Potential role of the common food additive manufactured citric acid in eliciting significant inflammatory reactions contributing to serious disease states: A series of four case reports

Potential role of the common food additive manufactured citric acid in eliciting significant inflammatory reactions contributing to serious disease states: A series of four case reports

Dextrose

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322243#uses-in-food

Everything you need to know about dextrose

Added Sugar in the Diet

Pub Med - Sugar

Impact of sugar on the body, brain, and behavior

11 Reasons Too Much Sugar is Bad for You

Sugar

Merriam Webster - Sugar

Guar Gum

Esophageal and small bowel obstruction from guar gum-containing "diet pills": analysis of 26 cases reported to the Food and Drug Administration

Guar gum. A review of its pharmacological properties, and use as a dietary adjunct in hypercholesterolaemia

Olive Loaf

Boar's Head

Olive Loaf

Pepperoni, Salami & Cold Cuts

Ingredients