the transition, and E numbers?

December 7, 2001

Thanks for the great ideas. This is exactly what has worked

in our house, and Mexican food with mashed beans instead of

meat (part or all)

Question though, what are E numbers?

Kris

--- Liz Harding <lizmisc wrote:

<snip>Although the meat substitutes

> can be good, be

> careful with the some of them and check that they're

> still 'healthy' and not

> packed with E numbers and salt!

>

> Happy cooking!!

> Liz

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December 7, 2001

Hi

Don't have a technical explanation, but E numbers are a method of

categorising additives to food. Can be for preservatives, colouring,

flavouring etc. Think it's a European Union thing. Not all E numbers are

for man-made or 'bad' additives, but quite a lot of them are! There was a

big thing about them in the UK a few years back, and certain numbers were

publicised, for example like tartrazine (E102) potentially causing

hyper-activity in kids.

Out of interest, I did a bit of research on the Net, and came up with the

following links that might be of interest:

http://www.vegsoc.org/info/enumbers.html - interesting, as much because I

hadn't thought about the Veg Soc having a website!

and

http://www.mej.org.uk/mej/E-Numbers.htm - a full list of E numbers and

possible affects. Mmmm, don't some of them sound yummy (not)!!