Do the dangers derived from the use of chemicals in food production and
preservation outweigh the advantages?
Most foods that are purchased these days in small stores and supermarkets have chemicals in
them as these are used to improve production and ensure the food lasts for longer. However,
there are concerns that these have harmful effects. In my opinion, the potential dangers
from this are greater than the benefits we receive.
There are several reasons why chemicals are placed in food. Firstly, it is to improve the
product to the eye, and this is achieved via the use of colourings which encourage people to
purchase food that may otherwise not look tempting to eat. Another reason is to preserve the
food. Much of the food we eat would not actually last that long if it were not for chemicals
they contain, so again this is an advantage to the companies that sell food as their products
have a longer shelf life.
From this evidence, it is clear to me that the main benefits are, therefore, to the
companies and not to the customer. Although companies claim these food additives are
safe and they have research to support this, the research is quite possibly biased as it
comes from their own companies or people with connections to these companies. It is
common to read reports these days in the press about possible links to various health
issues such as cancer. Food additives have also been linked to problems such as
hyperactivity in children.
To conclude, despite the fact that there are benefits to placing chemicals in food, I believe
that these principally help the companies but could be a danger to the public. It is
unlikely that this practice can be stopped, so food must be clearly labelled and it is my hope
that organic products will become more readily available at reasonable prices to all.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, however, if, look, may, so, therefore, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 13.1623246493 175% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 24.0651302605 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1451.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 298.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86912751678 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47406483382 2.80592935109 88% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.553691275168 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 445.5 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.3881027274 49.4020404114 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.615384615 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9230769231 20.7667163134 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.53846153846 7.06120827912 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 21.0 4.38176352705 479% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.241522565699 0.244688304435 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0881456107387 0.084324248473 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0565686130363 0.0667982634062 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0674679650308 0.151304729494 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0493193036172 0.056905535591 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.4159519038 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 78.4519038076 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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