Study finds plant-based supermarket products contain twice as many additives as animal-based equivalents
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A first-of-its-kind study from the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London, published in the peer-reviewed journal Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A, found that plant-based supermarket products contain twice as many food additives as their animal-based equivalents. The plant-based items also contained more total ingredients and more E-numbers overall.
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· 3 pulledA first-of-its-kind study of supermarket products has found that in total the plant-based items sampled contained twice as many food additives as the animal-based equivalents.
Overall, the plant-based products contained more additives, more ingredients and more E-numbers than their animal-based counterparts.
A team from the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London (a provider of university-accredited courses in nutrition) led the research which is published today in the peer-reviewed journal, Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A.
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