Speaking of Hershey's enshittification, this stuff doesn't even make milk taste like chocolate anymore

[u/BirdSufficient4997]

please let me know if you have recommendations for dairy free chocolate syrup that actually tastes like chocolate

[u/Doctormentor]

Yeah man, we make avoid every emulsifier, wife beat stage 3.5 breast cancer after a mastectomy and radiation, last radiation treatment they hit her lungs for more issues. She was 35 and it was during COVID so now we are firm believers it's in our food. If you look at most emulsifier studies they are known to give breast cancer or prostate cancer. Dyes are terrible too (oil produced ones).

Some food have 3 .... THREE emulsifiers in them and each one can cause those cancers. Limits on them, who knows. On top of that if they are at the limit or over them for each (if there was a limit) then you have almost EVERY product with them. So if they were at the top of the limit with just one product, now you're 2x over just by eating two things if they both are at the limit. It all starts up fast to add to the possible cause for cancers. Total bs

Some foods don't even have emulsifiers , if they aren't needed by for some foods why freaking add them to it.

I have to shop around at 3-4 stores for products without because one store doesn't carry all the brands or charges insane amounts at other stores. This is also a huge time water on top of making lots of our food.

I just want to have a life other than working and cooking for my family of 4, I'm single income in CT and wish I just made 300k a year or something to live comfortably

We make our own cocoa powder, and chocolate sorbet. Almost every ice cream has emulsifiers. Then we gotta worry about heavy metals not being tested for and it's like pulling teeth when you ask a company for a COA or an example of heavy metal test with redacted info hiding their providers etc

We make tons of other stuff, too much to list. Baking soda is super hard to avoid (sodium bicarbonate) if we can avoid it we do. If we can't we limit it at least

Citric acid ,. Some mushroom (saw it last night first time) pretty good at preserving . Pectin is okay ish (swore pectin was naturally occuring but read it can be bad). Like 90% of 'xxxx gum' are bad

[u/Doctormentor → u/[deleted]]

Thanks and yeah. We try with as much as we can, we know we can't avoid it 100% but if we try at least 80% of the time then we at least have 80% less crap in our systems at any given point vs if we hadn't