This month more research has been published by British scientists to confirm what many of us already know: food additives do serious physical and mental harm to children.

The researchers from the University of Southampton believe that if artificial colourings was removed from children’s foods, cakes, drinks and sweets it would bring significant health benefits, cutting hyperactivity by a third, reducing antisocial behaviour and boosting IQ. According to their research the harm caused by additives to the IQ of youngsters is similar to the damaging impact of lead on developing brains and they are calling on the Food Standard’s Agency (FSA) to take measures to ban food chemicals that can cause psychological harm to normal, healthy children. The colouring additives that caused the Southampton team the most concern are tartrazine (E102); quinoline yellow (E104); sunset yellow E1110); carmoisine (E122); ponceau 4R (E124) and allura red (E129) but, in my opinion, any food that contains E numbers should be treated with suspicion.

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