" Phosphate additives play an especially important role in the meat industry. Chicken meat is often injected with phosphates to improve its color, to add water weight (and thus to increase profitability since chicken can be sold by the pound), and to reduce “purge,” the term used to describe the liquid that seeps from meat as it ages.79 The problem with this additive is that it can nearly double the phosphorous levels in meat.80 Phosphate additives have been described as “a real and insidious danger” for kidney patients, since they "

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