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Enter your email id below to make sure you don't miss a beat on all whats happening on GoToChef. Click here to Login. Can Eat 1. Origin: Mixture of sodium salts of guanylic and inosinic acid. Guanylates and inosinates do not have the specific umami taste but strongly enhance many other flavours, thereby reducing the amounts of salt or other flavour enhancers needed in a product. Products: Used in many products. Acceptable daily intake ADI : None determined.
Guanylates and inosinates may not be used in products intended for children under 12 weeks. Are you aware of an allergy clinic in Sydney that screens for allergy to ? If so I would very much appreciate the details as I am more than willing to be a part of the 'clinical evidence' required to nail this damn additive. I am 58 years old and came across your website by accident.
I was dumbfounded when I saw the pictures of the effects of food additives This was what I had for nearly 3 years! I could not believe it. My symptoms too started in the early hours of the morning with dreadful itching.
By the time I got up my thighs were black and bruised from scratching. Over time this went and welts came all over my body. I looked like I had been beaten. I also had rashes which were itchy and painful. The only part that was not affected was my face and head. So many doctors and tests, so many creams and tablets - and nothing would stop it.
I had tests that showed I was allergic to things I had never had, like horsehair and oysters. To top it off I started to get fungal infections in my fingernails. I had bouts of crying and wanted to die. Eventually I was told it could be emotional or change of life. Then in June I started have rigors uncontrollable shaking.
I ended up in hospital, where I had every test under the sun including biopsies. My body was swelling up and I had blood tests every couple of hours. My temperature would not come down. I was seen by the elite of dermatologists and a professor of infectious diseases who told me that 'sometimes the body will not reveal its secrets'. They called what I had 'hypersensitive vasculitis' or a toxic shock from an unknown source. Then my temperature went down and I was discharged.
It never occurred to me that it could be the food I was eating, as I hadn't changed anything. I would have meat pies or sausage rolls at least once a week and sometimes pizza. Eventually I cut out processed foods and now make my own sausages rolls. At the very least, these food additives should be listed in bold lettering or a different colour.
I am a 33 year old mother of two. I woke up one Sunday morning with an angry red blotchy rash all over my body and my legs were burning. I asked my husband to call an ambulance as I nearly fainted and felt like vomiting at the same time. A doctor put me on Prednisolone tablets for a week. I also took antihistamines and smothered myself in Calamine lotion but nothing seemed to ease the rash which turned to severe hives all over my body. I couldn't sleep and would be awake in the night clawing at my skin for some relief.
I ended up bathing in Pinetarsol Solution which eased the itching. I was told that looking for the cause of the reaction was like "looking for a needle in a haystack" and I could not think of anything I had done differently. So to see your story on A Current Affair was fantastic. I am sure my reaction was from eating Continental Oriental Fried Rice packet mix on Friday night and also Saturday night for tea. I had a slight rash on my stomach on Saturday afternoon but it wasn't until Sunday morning that the severe reaction occurred.
I checked my cupboards and was also in Continental Macaroni Cheese as well. Thank you, and let's hope it can be removed from foods before someone has a fatal reaction.
I began to suffer strange, itchy swellings about seven years ago and spent a lot of time and money going back and forth to my doctor to try to ascertain the cause and a treatment. As you guessed, he couldn't find a cause. I gave up asking and had to suffer in silence. I have consulted doctors only when the swelling occurred in my tongue and throat to such a degree that I was very afraid for my safety.
These swellings have probably occurred on a two-monthly basis for several years, with some incidences being more extreme than others. Since the article appeared in the Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun about , I have tried to be very careful about what I eat, and check, where I am able, that any foods I consume do not contain I have noticed a reduction in occurrences, although one morning I woke up looking like Eddie Murphy in the Nutty Professor.
It was interesting to read that rotisseried chicken can be a culprit, as this is one thing I have eaten recently, before suffering an occurrence which I could not explain otherwise. Thanks for getting the information out there. You may just save some precious lives. I have never suffered any kind of food allergy in my life 43 years and then about ten weeks ago I found myself suffering from an extremely intense and constant itch of my hands and arms.
After two days of this I found I had come out in hives, starting on my upper chest, abdomen and back. It then spread to my arms and my legs and from then on each day might be different combinations of location of the hives, but always somewhere. They were worse at night causing intense itch and lack of sleep, I can't begin to tell you how unbearable the itch was and how it affected my everyday living and my ability to work.
On several occasions my lips have been swollen and I find on occasion that although my upper lip doesn't look particularly swollen, it feels 'thick' and like I have been to the dentist. Once my eyelids puffed up too. For almost two weeks I avoided all foods containing this additive and was finally able to come off the antihistamines I had been forced to live on.
I then ate a seasoned lamb steak bought from my local butcher and the next night the hives were back. Guess what? On contacting the butcher concerned, he was able to tell me that the seasoning used on those steaks contained I wish this product had never been put on the market. I'm sure it is what, to put it frankly, has caused me absolute hell almost continuously for over two months. A couple of days after initially eating a meal my partner and I made using a recipe mix containing flavour enhancer , I broke out in a rash over my neck and upper torso.
This quickly spread to the rest of my body the following day. The itch is unbearable, especially around my neck area, arms and breasts. The doctor didn't seem to believe that it could have been this enhancer, even after I showed her an article published in the Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun on 9 March entitled "Allergy hell in food additive". It looks to me that there are many people who are intolerant to this additive and I believe it should be banned.
This is the first time I have ever had a rash of this magnitude develop and I am not impressed. Further reading. Atrial fibrillation and other heart rhythm disorders. Eczema and other itchy skin rashes.
Introduction to food intolerance. The information given is not intended as medical advice. Always consult with your doctor for underlying illness. Before beginning dietary investigation, consult a dietician with an interest in food intolerance.
This has been the most life changing thing we have ever done. Disclaimer: the information given is not intended as medical advice. Always consult with your doctor for possible underlying illness. Information is drawn from the scientific literature, web research, group members and personal enquiry; while all care is taken, information is not warranted as accurate and the Food Intolerance Network and Sue Dengate cannot be held liable for any errors or omissions.
Introduction Introduction to food intolerance Allergy or intolerance? Brochures on food intolerance. All recipes list Search all recipes. On one page All food additives, problems highlighted Four cards to page for schools Handy magnifying cards Other food additive lists and cartoons. I have a 3 year old son, who I can only describe as an almost perfect child. He is well behaved, intelligent beyond his age, has exceptional manners, and the sweetest nature.
Screaming, hitting, scratching, breaking things, defiant, rude, irritable and unable to concentrate or listen to reason or discipline… Even his appearance would change, and he got this spaced out, zombified look to his face, with glassy, vacant eyes, that would suddenly spark up impulsively prior to him attacking someone or looking around frantically for something to destroy.
But I now suspect it may actually be , as I had banned all from his diet, and Nona, who resisted initially and scoffed at me, saw the DRAMATIC changes in his behaviour when she would sneak him a few chips as a reward or bribe, only to have created herself an uncontrollable hard time for hours!!
I am going to be sure to keep an eye out for it now, and will be writing to government to ask them to reconsider it as a banned additive. I was told this chemical tells your brain that it tastes good, not the taste of your taste buds, and it also makes the colour of the veggies brighter. Keep off MSG! Could you tell me whether the preservatives in this is part of the banned list for kids?
Cheers, Anna. Definitely not a product that you want to be giving to young growing bodies! I was about to put my meal out for dinner when I decided to check the ingredients. MAYBE soup is on my menu tonight.
That only a minority of the population is effected. I encourage you each time you have an issue to notify the manufacturer. Feel free to let us know too. The more examples we have, the better chance we have of achieving change. My husband is realy allergic to MSG. His throught swells and he takes cortesons tables which i beleave is not good. MSG is required to be declared. However, natural flavours can contain ingredients that have the same effect as MSG. Thank you for your comment.
What does this actually mean? Do the crackers contain MSG? Thanks Cheers Leah. Technically their labelling is correct. MSG is However and are flavour enhancers which can have the same effect as MSG. I have a bad reaction to MSG : stomach cramps within 10 minutes and diarrhea within the hour. Anything with a number is not food. It tasted me like eating something mixed with onion and garlic which I never take in my food due to religious reasons.
So I came online to check the origin of these flavour enhancers and landed on this article. It has just opened my eyes and I decided not to take any food item having numbers in bracket. But I know, I will be overwhelmed when I go searching food items without numbers in bracket. Yet I decide to give it a try. That is wonderful that you are giving it a try! Unfortunately these additives are appearing in ALL the food we eat.
Feel free to join our Additive Free Kids community group, a great support for those starting the transition. Thank you. I will be trying to avoid all the 6 enhancers from now on… Cheers Jacki. So glad that this blog post has helped you! So many people are in the same boat as you. No one talks about how our food can impact us in this way. Hope you have some relief now! These flavour enhancers are indeed toxic. We got to know about this when one of my brothers whose suffering from schizophrenia became so violent that he turned the dining table turtle.
Such violent behavior was observed most of the times when he ate foods containing MSG. Needless to say why mental disorders are growing at an alarming rate in the 21st century. The impacts of these additives are far reaching. Very sad to watch.
I am glad you were able to identify MSG as a trigger. A great article.. What about the Fetal tissues and the different parts of the unborn, that produce different flavors.. I came across this site when I was looking up E I suffer from Diverticulitis and certain foods can trigger it. I have tried to avoid Monsodium Glutamate and it helps a lot. From a recent visit to Scotland we brought back some square steak sausage.
This time I read the label and it had E in it and I am shocked to realise Monsodium Glutamate was in it. To cut a long story short it was because of additives but they could not tell us which ones it was trial and error and lots of food had it added.
It is easier now but I obviously need to be more observant with the E numbers. I am so glad I came across your site. Thank You. Thank you for taking the time to write a comment.
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