Despite being FDA-approved, PGMS has been linked to kidney and liver toxicity, endocrine disruption, metabolic issues and potential contamination with heavy metals and industrial solvents.
It is found in many processed foods like baked goods, desserts, snack foods, dairy alternatives and fast food items, especially in commercial breads, pastries and ice creams.
PGMS offers zero nutritional benefits. It exists solely to serve food manufacturers by improving product stability and shelf life, not consumer health.
Choose homemade or organic foods, clean-label brands using natural emulsifiers (like sunflower lecithin) and detox your diet by eliminating highly processed foods.
In today's processed food landscape, emulsifiers, stabilizers and synthetic additives lurk in nearly every packaged product. One such ingredient, propylene glycol monostearate (PGMS), is a widely used emulsifier that helps blend oils and water in baked goods, desserts and processed foods. Despite its ubiquity, this chemical raises serious health concerns, such as kidney and liver toxicity, endocrine disruption and long-term metabolic harm....<<<Read More>>>...
