In today’s world, chemical additives play an important role in food industry and also they are used to ensure that food can be kept for longer time. This essay will shed a light to both sides of the view and provide some evidences. In my point of view, the potential dangers from these chemical additives are greater than their benefits.
To begin with, preserving food and an increase in the sale rate are considered as the positive points of using additives. Firstly, artificial falavours are being used in food in order to make them more delicious and more eye-catching. As a result, people temp to buy the food that they did not like it before. Consequently, the sale rate faces a noticeable growth. Secondly, conserving food for longer period of time is crucial indeed recently. Additionally, all kinds of organic food are not available to all the people, then it not only gives us the opportunity to eat food from far places, but also by increasing the expiration we can keep them longer.
In terms of down side, these kinds of additives have the worst effect on our health. Toxic elements that have been used in food are destroying the valuable nutrition such calcium, vitamins, proteins. As these nutrition are important to our body, lack of them leads in some diseases. For Example, studies have shown that number of cancer cases has increased up to 20% recently. The more chemical additives we consume in each meal, the more we are in danger of health problems.
To sum up, despite of the fact that these additives are beneficial, I strongly believe that the health problems derived from these hazardous elements are irrecoverable. It is unlikely to stop using them, however; I hope people take an action and try to use more organic food in their daily meals.