Wada, H. Fact sheet for Butylhydroxyanisol. What can we help you find? Sorry, but your search returned no results. Try searching with different keywords. Email Submit. But you are right that the fact that it has antiviral properties has nothing to do with whether it should be used as a food additive.
Actually kevin is on to something. There are no strong studies linking this as a carcinogen. There is plenty of bad stuff out there and additives are silly. But this does have evidence that it can fight cancer and lots of viruses.
HIV and Aids is a virus. Whether it cured it would depend on the severity and the persons immune system. Sounds crazy but Kevin is on track. This is the last food additive i would be concerned about… lets start with EDTA and Artificial food coloring…. Sugar in general. In short BHT has too many benefits to be really worried about it. And im a health NUT! I eat mostly raw veggies, and do eat a little grassfed meat or fish at night. One more thing. People do buy this and take this as a supplement for a multitude of reasons.
Thanks for posting the above links, Dab!! Pretty much the same conclusion that I have found while researching BHT. But, it seems that no one else on this site has bothered to look it up for themselves. Very sad. Not surprised…. Bad mouthing BHT is not disinfo. I have avoided preservatives for years because my lips or eyes will swell up but today I inadvertently got some BHT ensure enough my lip swelled up. That is why I am here researching, I was watching a video that claimed it is an antiviral.
The only way to be sure you are not consuming chemicals and supplements is not to eat anything at all. Good luck! Just make your own food from whole foods raised properly: organic or homegrown produce, pasture-raised meats and poultry, wild seafood, pasture-raised dairy and eggs.
Then learn how to cook it right — not difficult and delicious. Saying chemicals in our food is bad just makes educated people ignore you. What you really mean is synthetic or extracted additives which may be harmful. Also probably not as simple or straightforward as you think.
Nor do the manufacturers of such products for that matter. Google Dr. Sebi and learn the truth. This black man has cured cancers, aids, blindness, paralysis, high blood pressure,etc… With seeded fruits, vegetables and alkaline water! And this He did in ! There are many innocuous products used as ingredients in dangerous products. Great post! I just decided to do a look up because I know BHT is in a lot of preserved meats and other products.
Most natural sunscreens make your skin look white. Back to the drawing board…. No one said anything about your skin colour, relax. Zinc makes your skin white. So many are so quick to pull the race card! Nona, please display your intelligence, or lack there of, elsewhwere. If you do not understand after reading this far, then any further attempt to enlighten is meaningless as it will surely be overly difficult for you to understand.
Please put your card back in your pocket. Amazon has it. Makes 8oz jar. Melt the coconut and beeswax over low heat. Remove from heat and cool just a bit, then add the D to the olive oil and pour in and stir.
Pour some into a mixing bowl and whip; add some ZnO and whip. Continue until all oil mixture and ZnO is in the bowl. Whip until it cools, add EOs, whip; scrape, rest, whip. Continue until all is cooled, whipped, and incorporated. Scoop into an 8oz jar. Rub it in when you use it, it is very waterproof and the white totally disappears if you rub it in a bit. Check yourself of course for pinking, but this works better than expensive store bought.
I reccomend cereals from health stores like Whole Foods, or Sunset. You know, we should be glad that the companies are made to list these additives so we can avoid them. Like, between the time you buy the cereal, and later they might use it I dunno. Also, if the company uses shortening, oil, or any other ingredient containing these preservatives these do not have to be listed separately since it part of that specific ingredient.
Please keep in mind these preservatives can be used on the inside of the packaging and not be listed as an ingredient; however, every time you shake your cereal out of its box, take a cookie out of a package, etc… you could be exposed yourself to these ingredients as well.
I love frosted mini wheats with the fruit filling. I ate a bowl of it last night, then decided to check out the ingredients. Freaking BHT is in it. I mean, is BHT really that necessary? And contrary to popular belief, and the commercials, Kashi is all GMO.
Take citric acid that is non fruit derived. Look up that…. Derived from mold and produced in enormous quantities by a drug company who sells it to food manufacturers. Be cautious fellow humans! Nothing to do with fooling anyone, just a different product.
I am now disposing of it! And this poison is in most chewing gum products in major stores here in the US. Even though that may be true it may not please remember Kashi is still a GMO food, they use genetically modified ingredients in every product, with the exception of there elusive organic products they say they sell, but I never see them in stores where I am.
A small example of this; my local health food store sells these gluten free muffins and rolls sold as healthful with corn syrup as the first ingredient, not to mention a bunch of other GMO laden products you can find in every aisle. If more people shopped like that then organic food and locally grown food would be more affordable. Start small if you have to, but at least start. On another note, I think that people need to understand the reason foods like corn are GMO is so they will live through the round-up pesticide and weed control sprayed all over them… Normal corn cannot.
Many of my medications have changed in appearence or size over the past ten years and never have I known it to be a dangerous thing! I only found out because, I ran accross this article and remembered the pamphlet that comes with my prescriptions every month identifying the change in ingredients in my pills. The active ingredient the reason I take it.
D Chewables has BHT in it and taking it forever and thinking it was good for me, great!! I have trouble taking big pills, so this is why I opted for chewables. Anyone have any advice for healthy alternatives, I have osteoporosis. Mika taking ANY pills is not normal to begin with! Please take a moment to google Dr. Alkaline diet is the only way, peace and love.
It is so aggravating trying to find a safe product for ourselves and our pets. Got home and saw it has BHT in it also. Educate yourself. There goes my favorite snack. Whether in it or in the packaging material, it cant be good either way. I did not realize that corn is the main ingredient in our foods the meat we eat is now corn-fed, the majority of preservatives we ingest have a corn derivitive and our government is subsidizing these farmers to mass-produce corn.
AND conveniently enough, the key figures at the FDA also happen to be have been key figures in the few major food companies that dominate the marketplace.. I nearly lost my son at 18 mos to E-Coli and subsequent H.
AND, to combat this problem.. Wish I had known all this when my son just turned 20 was born… I feel like I have been unknowingly poisoning him all this time….
All the negative side effects listed in this post are just as true for an alcoholic beverage. Also, just because a chemical has versatile used, does not make it dangerous or unhealthy. Every application listed to make BHT seem harmful also uses water in the same processes. LA and Jackie. Toluene is a much different compound than butylated hydroxytoluene. Think of chlorine and sodium chloride. One is incredibly toxic and dangerous, while the other is table salt. Scientific names are means of identifying the structure of a compound, not its uses, benefits or harms.
I agree we should eat healthier and less processed foods. I just thinks its ridiculous to think that everything out there is going to kill us. BHT is present in these mixtures of chemicals for the same reasons it is in foods- as an antioxidant. Additionally, it should be kept in mind that data from the MSDS is mostly relevant to workers handling large quantities of product.
For example, a worker who must measure amounts of this from a barrel cold accidentally inhale a large amount of dust. I stopped drinking water because I found out the Nazis also drank it… does this mean I can drink water again? Apparently, most chemical food additives are bad for migrainers but BHT is by far the worst.
My neurologist has me on a migraine diet [which is actually mostly healthy foods! OrganicPusher: For those who happen to be on a migraine diet, vegan or vegetarian diets are pretty much impossible. That can lessen effectiveness of argunents, if not backfire. Consider water — also used in weed killers, paint, radiator fluids, toilet cleaner, artificial maple syrup, window cleaner….
Awful stuff! Another great source for a sunscreen is Cocanut Oil, that you cook with. It takes a little bit, but it is a natural barier and will allow vitamin D to be created on your skin naturally. U can find it in any health food store. Completely natural And it allows you to brown, without burning. BHT is proving to be very helpful in curing hepatitis-C.
Google it. I agree, all chemicals [and many plants] have the ability to sicken or kill depending on dosage. However, there are certain things than are almost universal in the American diet which are almost impossible to avoid. Have you ever noticed how many items have soy in them, for instance?
Soy protein, soy lecithin, soybean flour, vegetable [ie, soybean] oil? This is also true [to a lesser extent] for BHT. For those of us who are barred from ingesting those items due to allergies or illness, it makes a diet miserable. I could give you an example of my daily menu [only dinner varies… ever], but it would depress me. Life is sweet as it is. I dont need to have all this crap added to make it taste good.
God has given us so much and we have ruined it. Great Post!! I just started eating some snack, and was looking up the ingriedients at the side of the box, and read that BHT is added last to the snacks packaging.
I was curious what it was, and.. Well… here I am!! I have one more in the list of hundreds of chemicals and materials to avoid. Thanks to your website! Great stuff!! Thank you!!! A chemical is a chemical. No way around it folks. Critically think about it. I have been using BHT for 31 years and have had nothing but excellent results. I will continue to use it until I die. I use it as a life extention material and to control herpes. I have not had a outbreak of herpes for more than 30 years and only then because I let my supply run out.
It is effective against all lip coded viruses and is use as a super antioxidant. I am glad I saw your comment in all these posts. But then I found this article and was reconsidering. Now I am not sure if to go for it or not. For cold sores I have used Campho Phenique for 64 years. As soon as I notice the tingling, or have have a sore or blister develope I apply it several times a day.
It takes away any pain, too. The virus that causes cold sores lives dormant in your body. Every time you have an outbreak, IF you have a healthy immune system, the virus gets weaker. I know from experience that this is true. I too was trying to buy products that listed only one or two simple ingredients.
It looks so innocent. Interesting comments from those who use it to control hepati. BHT has been shown to kill lipid enclosed viruses eg warts,hepatitis c and herpes. I copied and pasted the following from the naturalnews.
In studies BHT has caused various disorders in animals, such as reduced body weight, increased blood cholesterol levels, and birth defects. America is consuming mass amounts of chemicals put in foods and drinks. Both BHA and BHT are carcinogens that are prominent in potato-chips, cookies, cakes, carbonated drinks, chewing gum, shortening, lard, vegetable oils, margarine, cheese spreads, ice cream, dry cereals, cosmetics, and medical drugs.
I no longer purchase products from giant companies like Kelloggs, Nabisco, ConAgra, etc. In order for them to mass produce their crap and protect their profits they use mass produced ingredients like GMO corn, wheat, and soy and additives BHT! I would advise everyone to start shopping elsewhere to find better food choices.
These products are not on the shelf at your local chain grocery store and certainly are not carried at Walmart. Eating safer, healthier food involves more time, money and effort not only cooking but shopping too. Protecting the agricultural and pharmaceutical giants that own them by the suppression of the truth.
That is their one and only purpose. To those that it helps then more power to ya — but for those of us that have been having issues with one thing or another, glad it has been an eye opener for what is most likely causing that issue to start with — I am so sick of our corrupt government and what it is doing to our health as well as our country — MAY GOD HELP US ALL! I agree we should all do our research! We presently so not have GMO wheat. There has been some Research but nothing commercially available.
If someone has a disease and studies show a certain chemical helps, and you trust the studies, go for it. That does not mean I want it in my food. Studies show that chemotherapy helps kill cancer, so we should put those chemicals in our food and water and maybe we can eradicate cancer!
Its also in Chewing Gum. I just googled this because I saw it on the ingredient list on Trident White gum. Guess where I just found it? Like our infants need this garbage? Add in the artificial flavor and color and we have wonderful chemical cocktail to feed our babies!
Crap…gonna have to check my advil. Gonna have to make some serious changes…consider everything I touch or put on my body. For exact numbers, the FDA allows 0. Quantities that small like Gabe pointed out can actually be beneficial to humans. Numbers were obtained from A. One reason could be that BHT is banned in Europe as a food additive like many other food colorings and artificial additives.
For instance Nuttela in Greece has no modified ingredient but in canada it has and the product list is big. Generally in Greek food market you will have to try hard to find modified food. The only widely used modified ingredient I see is modified startch and all these products come from USA directly with no Greek letters on the package just a fake sticker We all avoid it of course.
This is the weird part. So, why Canada has to follow the same toxic experiment in foods like they do in USA. Canada is the pet of USA? I remember Monstanto tried to bring modified foods in Europe throughout England So Monsanto uses english-spoken countries to achieve the results.
Anyway, just assumptions. I just cant believe what I see in some juices in Canada whereas in greece they would never sell such waste-products to kids. Gosh, Greece sounds lovely! With such fresh unmodified food. Here in the US Monsanto has started commercials, promoting themselves as a wholesome family company.
If they start to loose America, they loose a lot! So you can imagine how much money they make here. Just like I hope the adult immunization programs will backfire, making people more aware of the dangers and ineffectiveness of vaccines.
Both have yet to happen. I am very concerned about any additives and preservatives. What about oat meal and whole grains for cooking? Is it possible these companies are using preservatives without listing it? From what Ive recently researched, it is dangerous whether it is put in the packaging or used as a direct food additive.
The flour still gets all over the chicken as a coating. The bht still gets all over the cereal. At least, thats the way its been explained to me by someone who used to work for general mills. This got me worried a lot because it is what my family mostly eat for cereal.
I am going to switch to an safer alternative for now on. I agree. Had to throw the whole box away. Yes I am and I still have the receipt. Thanks everyone for all your comments. Because after all, who eats cereal in the first 3 months after they purchase it? God forbid a shelf-stable grocery product have an expiration date four to five months from the time the grocery store receives it. The manufacturer might have to use partially hyrdrogenated oil as an alternative.
Yesterday, I discovered this blurb on a few cereal boxes I had purchased—to my horror. Oh, names? But maybe it actually would sit on the shelf that long if everyone refused BHT in any form. Just so you know.. Your store does not have to label information on the things that come in bulk.
The BHT and other preservatives that come coated on your food are labeled on the box not the food itself. My husband and I have went back to preserving many summer foods that we grow for market. And now we are growing this into part of our farm business. Good Luck. I looked up BHT because its in my store brand cheerios! When I got home and realized it, I decided to look it up.
Now I have to return this crap. When will stores start caring more about people than profit? Just came across a box of Wheat Thins in my desk, ate one,and found it to taste fresh.
It was crispy. The only preservative listed is BHT added to packaging material to preserve freshness. What is this doing to our bodies? I have a box of hole wheat cereal at home with bht. But thanks for the info.
If BHT is in our food even the smallest bit, it is not good for us. Lately my daughter pointed out to me that the outside bag not the box of cereals had been sprayed with BHT for freshness. Check the date, and if expired, show it to the store manager and walk away. My younger sister recently died of cancer that could have been caused by these kinds ofadditives as she believed in the short cuts that made her food preparation easier and faster.
She will never have the chance to correct that. I compared my old deoderant label with my new one and the only difference in ingredients was BHT. I did some research and stopped using it two days ago, washed clothes and bras that might be contaminated and have noticed the pain and fullness in both breasts has subsided.
Breast tissue extends to the armpit…and estrogen can cause breast swelling and tenderness…and BHT does get asorbed into the skin. Oh yeah the deoderant was Lady Speedstick but only found BHT in the stainguard one, and not the regular one… and not in any of my husbands deoderants. Take this how you will but I know my body well, and I knew something different was causing the severe tenderness and fullness.
BHT does penetrate the skin, but the relatively low amount absorbed remains primarily in the skin. Oral studies demonstrate that BHT is metabolized. The major metabolites appear as the carboxylic acid of BHT and its glucuronide in urine. At acute doses of 0. Short-term repeated exposure to comparable doses produced hepatic toxic effects in male and female rats. Subchronic feeding and intraperitoneal studies in rats with BHT at lower doses produced increased liver weight, and decreased activity of several hepatic enzymes.
In addition to liver and kidney effects, BHT applied to the skin was associated with toxic effects in lung tissue.
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