New candies and chocolates are popping up on store shelves with labels touting low sugar, keto-friendly, gluten free and real fruit flavor. But are they really better? NBC’s Vicky Nguyen brought some treats to a panel of nutritionists and doctors to ask what you need to know about these alternative candies.
The Food and Drug Administration’s “hands-off approach” to food additives, including those found in ultraprocessed foods and energy drinks, may allow unsafe ingredients to enter the nation’s food supply, according to the authors of an editorial published Thursday.
From 1990 to 2010, an estimated 1,000 substances were labeled GRAS by manufacturers and were used without notifying the agency, Pomeranz said, citing earlier research. Since then, she added, there have likely been many more ingredients added to the nation’s food supply without the FDA’s oversight. “We have no idea how many substances are in the food supply based on this self-GRAS mechanism,” Pomeranz said. “The food industry has basically made their own decisions about what is GRAS.
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