Shocking! Fruits and Vegetables Sprayed and Injected with Toxic Chemicals to Look Fresh and Ripe

More and more people nowadays are driven towards having healthy lifestyles or eating healthy foods. Eating healthy would include consuming a lot of vegetables and fruits as part of the daily meal. Yet, has it ever crossed your mind if these food are really healthy or even safe? Surprisingly, even the vegetables and fruits which we all know are healthy could really be dangerous or life threatening.

Erythrosine B is commonly used in sweets such as some candies and
popsicles, and even more widely used in cake-decorating gels.

A shocking video which recently went viral in Facebook showed how sellers inject and spray vegetables and fruits to make them look fresh and ripe.

The chemical shown in the video, Erythrosine B, is commonly used in sweets such as some candies and popsicles, and even more widely used in cake-decorating gels. This is also used to color pistachio shells and as a food additive which has the E number E127.

Erythrosine was partially banned by the U.S. FDA in 1990 citing a research that high doses have been found to cause cancer in rats. In June 2008, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) petitioned the FDA for a complete ban on erythrosine in the United States. A 1990 study also concluded that “chronic erythrosine ingestion may promote thyroid tumor formation in rats via chronic stimulation of the thyroid by TSH.”

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