Cake mixes make whipping up delicious cakes at home easy. However, some packaged cake mixes include ingredients that have ...

Breads, including hamburger buns, are often made with preservatives to extend shelf life, but these ingredients sometimes have links to health risks like cancer. Here are several examples of hamburger ...

It may sound strange, but there are still many food manufacturers across the world who choose to enhance the quality and appearance of their baked products by adding the carcinogenic compound known as ...

A chemical linked to cancer has been banned across the European Union, China, Canada, Brazil, and India. But walk into any ...

The national food regulator and the industry have been quick to react to the discovery of possible cancer-causing chemicals in popular bread brands in India. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of ...

THE National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, yesterday, uncovered a warehouse in Lagos containing potassium bromated tablets and an unregistered imported bread improver in ...

Indian bread manufacturers use potassium bromate, which was classified as possibly carcinogenic to humans—but not banned in India or the US—for treating flour, said the study. Photo: Mint ...

Here is a look at a few of the more controversial and widely used American food additives that are banned elsewhere. What is it? A stabilizer and emulsifier used to prevent separation of citric oils ...

Confronted with the reality of the sale of bread with bromate and its health implications, Abdullah, a bread fanatic, with a keener interest in ‘Agege Bread,’ exclaimed: “Cancer? For where? What we ...