On a tangent, I've been cooking at home a lot more under the COVID lockdown & have been reading up more on the weird ingredients in my food. I bought some nuts that had "natural honey flavor" & wondered what that meant & found this website:
EWG's Food Scores rates more than 80,000 foods in a simple, searchable online format to empower people to shop smarter and eat healthier. Each item in the database is scored based on three factors: nutrition, ingredient concerns and degree of processing. <a...
www.ewg.org
Here's the page entry for "Natural Honey Flavor":
EWG's Food Scores rates more than 80,000 foods in a simple, searchable online format to empower people to shop smarter and eat healthier. Each item in the database is scored based on three factors: nutrition, ingredient concerns and degree of processing. <a...
www.ewg.org
This is fun:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not require specific flavor ingredient labeling.
A review reports that artificial and natural flavorings are unspecified mixtures of as many as 100 flavoring substances and solvents, emulsifiers, and preservatives.
In light of this, I've decided to tilt my diet more towards whole foods. I don't feel like you need to go nuts with it, because everyone dies someday, but the amount of crap they're putting into packaged & fast foods these days is ridiculous. The problem is that even whole, real foods have been doctored along the way, starting with glyphosate:
The latest study to look at the long-term effects of Roundup raises new questions
time.com
Edible wax:
For centuries, artificial protective coatings have preserved and protected foods—and made them look more appealing.
www.theatlantic.com
Which is also in cheap chocolate:
Lawsuit – Hershey vs Cadburys A local supplier who shall remain nameless informed me recently that Hershey raised a lawsuit against Cadbury’s to prevent the import of some of their prod…
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Year-old apples:
The leaves are changing, the temperature is dropping, and as we slide fully into fall, the shift in season means one very important thing for foodies: It's apple season.But did you know that the apples on the shelves of your supermarket might be nearly a year old? Here's why — and why it doesn’t...
www.today.com
Store-bought orange juice is flavored with flavor packs:
Do you buy orange juice at the store? If you do, I'm sure you're careful to buy the kind that's 100% juice and not made from concentrate. After all, that's the healthier kind, right? The more natural kind? The kind without any additives? The kind that's sold in the refrigerator section so it...
www.foodrenegade.com
The list goes on & on. I think the hype over additives & preservatives is a
little over-done, but at the same time, I'm not a huge fan of putting crap into my body where they can't even honestly tell me the ingredients & hide it behind artificial flavors, natural flavors, switch up names from MSG to "yeast extract", and have hidden manufacturing additives that they don't have to list on the ingredient label:
Did you know that your food may contain rodent hair, insect parts, arsenic and other unwanted ingredients? Learn more in this infographic.
www.foodpackaginglabels.net
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Advocates for public health education.
mphprogramslist.com
Added sugars are another fun one. They squirrel away the names under 60+ ingredients:
Sugar is found in 74% of packaged foods sold in supermarkets, including many savory foods or items marketed as
sugarscience.ucsf.edu