Wednesday, July 13, 1977 University Daily Kansan Beneficial food additives provide nutritive protection Bv DEENAL KERBOW Staff Writer Editor's note: a senior Carter administration farm official recently told Congress that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would be vigilant in its programs to protect consumers against pesticides and provide the most nutritious food possible. However, the official, Deputy USDA Secretary John C. White, also said, "We are the farmers' advocate, and we don't intend to shirk our responsibilities to them." The following is the third in a series of articles concerning the "chemical contaminants" to which White referred. This article will deal with benefits of food additives; the fourth article will consider organic gardening. PEGYG KOHL, author of "Today's Food and Addition," says, "Imagine, if you will, that all you eat is cheese." Your morning toast might have a patch or two of mold. The mayonnaise for your uncutture tuna salad will have separated in the jar. The table salt would be hard and lumpy. The frozen peaches you might eat with your evening meal would be brown and crisp. Without additives, the vitamin potencies of most of the foods you ate that day may have deteriorated or not have been present in your diet, getting the proportion of many packages. The quantity, safety and nutrition of today's food system depend on food additives, according to Kohl, vice president for consumer affairs, General Foods Corp. Scientists have said that without additives, much of the U.S. food supply would be unhealthy. Five per cent of the U.S. population grows food for the remaining 95 per cent, and according to the U.S. Census Bureau, by the end of 2017, about 68 percent will need food from those few farmers. Kohl said that well-balanced diets should contain all the essential vitamins and minerals. "Food additives help insure that the body's needs for those substances are met," she said. She said that short supply in certain geographical areas, as well as personal and cultural diet patterns, could produce deficiencies of these elements. One of the first experiments with nutritive additives occurred in 1921 when 6,000 Ohio children were given iodine-treated drinking water. Those children did not develop goter; those of those who drank the naturally iodine-dictent water did develop As a result, potassium iodide was added to table salt, becoming the first nutritive food Recently, however, Kohl said, people have tended away from iodized salt, and a survey has shown that corresponding to that trend is an increase in goaters. Vitamin D was added to milk to help prevent rickets; nicotinic acid was added to cormel to help prevent pellagra; and thiamine was added to wheat flour. Kohl said, "Some southern legislators were at first skeptical about adding unenlisted individuals to the list." Kohl estimated that today's enriched cereal products, which are not breakfast cereals, provide 13 per cent of the iron, 20 per cent of the zinc and only one per cent of the riboflavin in U.S. diets. But within two years after the legislature passed the fertilization law, pellagia had been detected. She also said, "The incidence of food poisoning and gastrointestinal illness has dropped dramatically over the last 30 years, but the use of additives in our food supply." One potentially fatal poison, botulism, incurred by eating improperly processed meat or milk. Eight-tenths of an ounce of botulinum toxin could kill the entire U.S. population. The nitrates and nitrites destroy the organisms that could cause botulism. additives in the form of nitrates and nitrites. According to Kohl, a bread mold, which caused St. Anthony's fire disease, has been reported. St. Anthony's fire, or ergotism, caused burning sensations as if the body were on fire and later caused other symptoms like vomiting. It was caused by a fungus that blighted rice. Kahl said some foods contained natural, chemical, preservatives, sometimes in the form of flavouring agents. the Federal Food and Drug Administration as additives. Kohl said that a jar of lingerberries would keep for a year without fermenting or spoiling or molding because of the natural content of benzoic acid. "But," she said, "if you were to invent the lingoberry, as the perfect crabberry, in your own basement laboratory, you wouldn't be able to sell it because its benzio acid content would be in excess of FDA specifications." She said, "The amounts of preservatives that are added to foods are carefully regulated and usually restricted to only the minimum amounts that will do the job." Camping "I have to trust them to tell me the truth," he said. . . . From page one week, according to Mike McCurdy, manager Sleeping bags are $ a day or $12 Gran Sport also sells canoes and kayaks. The price range is from under $200 to over $650, depending on the model. Gran Sport rans canoes for $9.50 a day, the rental includes two paddles, two life- lines and a safety mat. Latham said he charged his customers for the amount of time they were on the water, as $1,000. Kayaks run about $75, he said. Latham said his store emphasized backpacking. "although we're half sneaking into the family camping business." could order a canoe that could cost as much as $1,000. Kavaks run about $75 he said. HE SAID THEY also had a variety of tents, ranging from under $40 for a simple two-man tent to several hundred dollars for a finely built, lightweight tent. The National Park Service advises beginning campers to plan carefully. It's best to consider a park that's closer to home for the first camping experience. 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