Many processed foods and ready-made meals contain preservatives and chemicals.
What are the advantages to this?
Do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
A lot of prepackaged even ready to cook food items are rich with different types of food additives. Adding such chemicals in foods enhances the appearance, taste also they can be stored for a longer period. But these chemicals may cause harmful effects on human health if their amount exceeds the threshold value. I believe when preservatives and chemicals are used within the limit or these are added by strict supervision have certain advantages as well as they outweigh disadvantages.
Additives in food are common to increase the food value in terms of look, nutrition, and preservation time and their usage can be traced to the Egyptian or Roman empire. Coloring additives are used to increase the appeal of food to the eye. Ascorbic acid used in fruit juices, mainly, has Vitamin C, alpha-tocopherol is another name of vitamin E, beta-carotene is another source of Vitamin A and they are common in pasteurized milk, bread etc. In addition that food additives such as preservatives (butylated hydroxyanisole, formaline etc.) can help in reducing food spoilage as well as food decay. Also, a variety of food items would be available around the year, if preservatives are used.
On the other hand, most of these additives if applied too much will not only increase the taste or appearance or storage time but also will cause harm to human health. Such as, if butylated hydroxyanisole has overdosed it may cause cancer, carbide another chemical used to mature unripened fruits is poisonous to the human body. Moreover, often manufacturers are found to be using food color to beautify decayed food items and sell them to the consumers, this tactic is also used to reduce organic food content too. Recent studies revealed that monosodium glutamate sodium (applied to increase flavor) is responsible for increased number of obsessed people and asthma patient. Researchers also related butylated hydroxytoluene to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder(ADHD) in young children.
Overall, using food additives are necessary for the food industry to increase food value and to prolong storage time at a low cost. But alternative natural chemicals are needed to be invented for replacing harmful chemicals such as butylated hydroxyanisole, carbide, butylated hydroxytoluene etc.. In addition to that, we need more strict quality control when it comes to food additives for minimizing health risk related to overdose.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 296, Rule ID: DOUBLE_PUNCTUATION
Message: Two consecutive dots
Suggestion: .
...e, carbide, butylated hydroxytoluene etc.. In addition to that, we need more stric...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, moreover, so, well, in addition, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2034.0 1615.20841683 126% => OK
No of words: 385.0 315.596192385 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28311688312 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97240924694 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542857142857 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 674.1 506.74238477 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.7296491636 49.4020404114 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.0 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3888888889 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.38888888889 7.06120827912 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.119919718288 0.244688304435 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0443215209257 0.084324248473 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0412972553373 0.0667982634062 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0795255281174 0.151304729494 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0327371593398 0.056905535591 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.27 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 78.4519038076 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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