check your food content additives on your Mobile
Phone with e-additives (Etata)
In the present age it's really modern for companies to cut costs
and increase a food product durabity and endurance using addition
of specially crafted chemical compontents.
Most of which are starting with
E and followed by a number
for example
E328 .
Though this is generally profitable for companies and is prolonging
the food durability it's making the food less nourishing and more
harmful or even sometimes toxic for us humans.
A good friend of mine
Necroleak or as earlier known
Pro-XeX has created a nice J2ME application for mobiles that
has a database of most groups of
E food chemical additives
and is able to tell you if a certain
E type like
E329
for instance is belonging to which chemical additive group.
This is quite handy especially when you go for grocery to the city
market and you have to buy a can of milk or some type of canned
food.
In the european Union as well as in America, New Zealand, Australia
and Israel the E number of the additives are encountered on every
non-biological food label.
Hence it's really helpful when you launch the
E-additives application while
you're selecting your food and check the food additives
E E
labelling and therefore know what type of chemical you might
swallow while eating the purchased food.
This type of behaviour is really smart and could have a positive
impact on your physical health in a long term and help you select a
food which is less chemical contaminated. More about the
ETATA / E-Additives can be read
on it's official page
Some of the benefits of E-Additives as an application that it is
really multi-platform oriented and is supposed to run on most
mobile phones which include the
J2ME Java Virtual
machine
I decided to try the
e-additives mobile software on my
Nokia 9300i and I have to share the program installed and
runs on the mobile quite nice, though the J2ME included with Nokia
9300i is currently quite outdated.
Here are some pictures of e-additives running my Nokia 9300i
mobile:
The only downside of th
e-additives on my nokia is that some
pictures shown on the e-additives website are not appearing on my
phone.
However since I can search in
E-additives - E database the
application is performing it's original intention through enabling
me to check how actually contaminated with chemical additives
(preservative food additions) are my daily meals.