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Modern Foods Sold In The Supermarket Are No More Than A Cocktail Of Chemicals? BY HO SIEW CHOO

In my opinion, I disagree with the statement. This is because the word CHEMICAL in the statement gives the publics' impression that which is bad and hazard '. Although I agree with some friend who said that actually chemicals are not necessary something bad that will harm us and a chemical is a substance used in or produced by the process of chemistry, but for public they are not thinking so. It is true that chemical such as food preservative is needed as to prolong the food product shelf-life. But for public, they just think that chemical is something which will harm their health. For example if people heard that such food product sold in the supermarket are no more than a cocktail of chemicals, I think they dare not buy that product. In addition, I think this statement may cause people scare of modern foods today. So, as a food technologist, I disagree that modern foods sold in the supermarket are no more than a cocktail of chemicals. The following are the reasons why I say so. Modern food such as cereal, low fat milk, organic product and so on are better in nutrition and safer to consumer because they are produce under laws and regulation. Nowadays, most of the modern food is sold for the sake of people health such yakult (the new product - yakult light which is modified its ingredient to low sugar content), yogurt (yogurt nowadays is also fortified with vitamin) and so on is modified so that can be consumed by certain people which have health problem like diabetes. Besides, most milk product today are fortified with calcium for those who need calcium supplement in order to maintain health. ** Thus, modern foods sold in the supermarket are a cocktail of healthy formulations rather than chemical. **  Moreover, people today are trend to consume organic products rather than conventional. Organic products are also modern foods. Organic food is free from chemical and eco-friendly. Organic product use high technology such as high pressure food processing in food production to maintain its quality. So, in future the price of organic food may reduced since more and more people consumed organic product due to large productivity reduced the cost. In conclusion, I disagree with the statement that modern foods sold in the supermarket are no more than a cocktail of chemicals.  

