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If we are what we eat, then Nantucket Cottage Hospital nutritionist Suzanne Davis is deeply concerned as to the state of food in America. “I would encourage, as an American citizen, to address the fact with the powers that be, that Europe has [the ban on certain additives]. Those food additives aren’t in their food. … So that is a subject in and of itself,” says Davis, who focuses on patients with diabetes.

The Golden State was added to the list of those taking a stand against the nation’s ultra-processed foods— on April 11, the California State Assembly’s Committee on Health approved a bill to ban brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, red dye No. 3 and titanium dioxide for food use—five substances that may be linked to serious health problems like higher cancer risk, nervous system damage, hyperactivity and more. And they’re used much more commonly than you’d imagine—think many ultraprocessed brand-name breads, donuts, trail mix, candy and more.

The bill, which is the first in the nation, would make California the first