If you eat more healthy food would the small amount of chemicals preservatives not absorb into your system?

[Lyudmilascience]

if you eat alot of healthy food along with a small amount of preservatives like monsoduium glutamate or carboxymethyl cellulose (TVDinner glue) going to make you absorb less preservatives then eating the same amount of preservatives but less food?

I use carboxymethylcellulose in making art, we use it because it ph neutral. I feel like these things are really bad for your health but the people that can afford healthy food dont have to worry about it. if I cant afford healthy food I live in the city so I cant grow my own food how can I eat the food that I have and not absorb as much chemicals?like some people eat butter before drinking beer in order to not get as drunk so they can drive, maybe butter dosen't work but there has to be something that effects absorption.

[Fuzzwood]

You realize that everything is made up of chemicals right?

[Lyudmilascience]

Did I say that some things were not made of of chemicals? I do know that, preservatives and chemicals are not the same thing, I am asking about preservatives.

[Fuzzwood]

All preservatives are chemicals, not all chemicals are preservatives. Preservatives are made from atoms, ergo they are chemicals. In the cases you mention, these preservatives stem from natural sources (but are still chemicals) and the first one is actually an amino acid playing an intergral and irreplacible part in our biological functions.

 

To reduce your intake of chemicals, the answer is simple: eat less. If you worry about those things however, look at the label of the products you are buying.

Edited September 17, 2015 by Fuzzwood

[Acme]

...if I cant afford healthy food I live in the city so I cant grow my own food ...

Living in a city does not of necessity preclude growing one's own food.

Urban agriculture @ Wiki

 

Search the phrase 'urban farming' for a bountiful harvest of returns.

[CharonY]

Also note that a) preservatives are very diverse in nature (sugar and sodium chloride are also preservatives, for example) and b) monosodium glutamate (which, btw. has not been found to be detrimental in any studies) is not a preservative. All of the mentioned are also present in unprocessed food, obviously.

[Lagoon Island Pearls]

Uptake is one thing, retention is another.

 

Everyone's different. As to preservatives, the same applies for things like sugar, where some folks eat lots and never gain weight while some eat a little and gain a lot, so without an extensive physical examination it would difficult to say how this may apply to you, or anyone for that matter.

 

It's fair to say a lower exposure to preservatives might provide for a lower uptake, but that's not to say how much may be retained in any event.

 

Heavy metals, not chemicals tend to be retained longer in lipid cells, nails, hair etc., where most preservatives are flushed away via the kidneys in the short term.

 

My reply may be a little ambiguous, but I don't think there's a clear "yes or no" answer to the question, albeit a good one!

[Lyudmilascience]

thank you for the answers. yea it would make sense that everyone is different how one person processes foods isn't the same way another does, like allergies, some peoples immune response is one way and some others is a different way.

[John Cuthber]

Monosodium glutamate is not only not a preservative, but it's also naturally present in many foods.

 

Perhaps it would be better if Lyudmilascience explained what problem they think they are trying to solve- because that problem might not exist.