What's wrong with sulfites?

[Leasia79]

I was making a trail mix for my husband. (I know, I know, snacking is not recommended. But he eats breakfast super early & drives a lot for work so I wanted him to have some emergency food). Anyway, I saw that all the dried fruit contained sulfites. Why exactly are they banned? What's wrong with them? Are nitrates in meat in the same category?

Thanks!

[Sleeve]

Actual fruit has no added sulfites to preserve it, that was banned in 1986.  A portion of nuts is a closed fist, assuming nuts are in the mix.  A breakfast needs to pave the road to lunch.  If it doesn't, then the emergency food needs to meet mini-meal balanced nutrition goals.  But there's a tradeoff because if you make a bag of fruit candy he could easily treat that as an optional thing, yet if you prepare a portable mini-meal, he'll feel more obligated to eat it and therefore it becomes meal 2 in a daily pattern rather than a fire extinguisher.  Something with more satiety and less insulin reaction would be better regardless of the sense of obligation to eat something you prepared.

 

Sulfites are a sensitivity exclusion, in sensitive people skin, heart, GI and cardiovascular problems can occur.  Excluding them determines your sensitivity when reintroduced.  If you don't exclude sulfite, you can't detect sensitivity to sulfite as an opportunity to improve how you feel.

[Physibeth]

To answer your other question nitrates are fine on a Whole30.