When Burger King recently announced it was dropping 120 “non-essential artificial ingredients” from its food, two important things were exposed.
First, just how many chemical additives, colors and preservatives are actually used in processed foods, and second, that you shouldn’t believe everything Big Food tells you.
How the company came up with this list is difficult to tell, as not all toxic chemical ingredients used in Burger King foods are revealed. To add to the mystery, Burger King makes no effort to provide ingredients online, but shares only “nutritional facts” information — such as details on sodium, fat, calories and carbs. Calls and emails to its agency, Alison Brod Public Relations, to find out more have been ignored. And finally, BK brags that it has “removed around 8,500 tons of artificial ingredients globally.” But how they computed the tonnage of nasty additives put into their products is also unknown.
Although we don’t know all the details behind BK’s well publicized claims of “realness,” we do know that despite there being a number of excitotoxic (brain damaging) additives in the “banned” inventory, many are missing. Not only that, some are still alive and well on the current BK menu.
Take the “Impossible Whopper” made with the popular fake meat product known as the Impossible Burger. The Impossible Whopper contains five ingredients containing brain damaging amino acids: soy-protein concentrate, potato protein, yeast extract, modified food starch and soy-protein isolate – six if you count natural flavors. And not one of those excitotoxic chemical concoctions is found on the BK “dropped” list.
If you’re looking to avoid brain damaging chemical additives, eliminating excitotoxic glutamate from your diet would be a good place to start — and the ones that BK picked for its “dropped” list are just the tip of the iceberg. You’ll find several dozen more ingredients that contain excitotoxic Manufactured free Glutamate on our list of hidden sources of MfG. https://www.truthinlabeling.org/assets/names_ingredients_linkedin.pdf
Print out that list and take it with you whenever you go shopping. And if you happen to pass by a Burger King, why not stop in and give a copy to the manager.