The next metre you ’re peeling a sweet , organic , “ all - natural ” banana just remember : it ’s filled with lots of chemicals ! But do n’t vex , so is everything else .
James Kennedy , a chemistry teacher live in Australia , has produce somefun imagesthat show just what chemical substance are lurking inside your preferent foods — even the “ organic , ” unrefined ones .
As Kennedy excuse , there ’s a lot of affright right now about the chemicals we ’re ingest . And the hype around Word like “ lifelike ” — a Bible whose definition is n’t regulated by the FDA — is mostly just marketing .
Some citizenry care about different ingredient such as “ E - numbers ” . I made this graphic to demo how “ born ” products ( such as a banana ) contain shuddery - look factor as well . All the factor on this list are 100 % natural in a non - GM banana . None of them are pesticides , fertilisers , insecticides or other contamination .
There ’s a inclination for advertisers to use the word “ utter ” and “ simple ” to describe “ natural ” products when they could n’t be more incorrect . With this diagram , I want to present that “ natural ” products are normally more complicated than anything we can make in the lab . For brevity ’s sake , I omitted the thousands of minority ingredients base in a banana , include DNA .
So here ’s a fun biz : take maybe half a dozen give-and-take from Kennedy ’s banana lean and read them to a friend . “ Would you eat a food with ethyl butanoate , phenylalanine , and aspartic acid … . ”
[ James Kennedy ]
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