Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Sick Kids, Stressed Parents—Let’s Fix the Root Cause Together 🌿

27 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Mona Sharma compares food safety across continents: the U.S. allows over 10,000 chemicals in food versus roughly 400 in Europe. Many additives like non-nutritive dyes are known to be harmful but stay in American products because companies prioritize profit and repeat purchases over children's health.

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We have so many chemicals in America that are not allowed anywhere else because of the grass rule, to generally regard it as safe. So, like Europe, they have around 400 chemicals approved, but we have over 10,000. And you have to spend a lot of time to get something out of food. We can't even get food dyes out of our food here that have no nutritional value whatsoever. With a ton of research that shows that they're harmful. And yet the companies who make the food in this country, who sell it all over the world, don't use these ingredients in other places, but use it here.
It's a for profit aisle. They have no interest in the health of my kids or how they're going to grow. They're more interested in getting my child addicted to those foods so that we go back as parents and we buy more of them.