Complex ingredient names like ergocalciferol and cyanocobalamin are just vitamins and essential amino acids your body needs. Food additives like preservatives and emulsifiers serve specific purposes and are safe in the small amounts used in processed foods. Judge ingredients by what they do, not how hard they are to say.
Just because you can't pronounce an ingredient doesn't mean it's inherently bad. And here's why. Ever heard of ergocalciferol or cyanocobalamin? Sounds kind of scary, right? Well, ergocalciferol is vitamin D2 and cyanocobalamin is vitamin B12. So plot twist, they're just fancy names for vitamins. Some other nutrients that you might not be able to pronounce but are also essential to get through food. You've got methionine, threonine, phenylalanine. They're all essential amino acids and we have to get them through food because our bodies cannot make them. So it's gonna be common to see those ingredients in ingredient lists too. Just because you can't pronounce 'em doesn't mean they're bad. Thirdly, additives to a food product serve a purpose. There are preservatives, emulsifiers, stabilizers, and fortifiers. Any of those ingredients help to keep your food fresh and stable and sometimes even add extra nutrients. And just because you don't know exactly what an emulsifier does, again, does not make it inherently bad. Like with anything, the dose makes the poison. You're obviously not drinking a whole container of emulsifiers and the amount that they put in food products are generally safe.
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