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My Jewel has a very nice clearance section, and I often find things at half price or below. We went camping a couple weeks ago, I had my eyes open for snacks and things I could bring along. I had been eyeing some salmon jerky in another store, but it was too expensive for what would just be a hiking snack, and we don't eat beef. So when I was at Jewel and saw the pile of sweet potato jerky on the clearance rack, I went right over to check it out. The Earth Mother look of the package seemed a little pretentious, but there weren't a lot of ingredients and I was curious. It took me a minute before I saw "Dog Treats" in small letters on the back. Oopsies.
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Originally Posted by L0ve
Yes, we do
Unfortunately they add addictive chemical ingredients and HFCS to almost everything in America. The food industry's goal is to turn food into an addictive drug. There is a science behind it and people paid to make foods more addictive.
That's why I like shopping at Costco. A lot of their products have been pre-screened by their corporate buyers. A lot less label reading is required there because they know what their customer base wants, and cater to it. Same for places like Trader Joes.
For some reason, I've always thought the opposite of Costco. I assumed the food there would be subpar. But lots of people have good things to say about it.
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Originally Posted by rugrats2001
The world is full of people who think that it has to have the word 'nut' in the name (walnut, peanut, Brazil nut) to be an actual nut. All it takes is one dopey relative to kill a kid with a pecan NOT marked "contains nuts" to cost millions of dollars in judgements and lawyers bills to the manufacturer.
True story:
Our local Chinese restaurant has a dish on the menu called 'Vegetarian Delight'. It comes with a pork egg roll.
We had a rude awakening with our heavy cream a little while back. The cream in the carton turned into a gelatinous mass of white goo. It wasn't spoiled though! We read the label and find it has carrageenan in it. Who the heck would think that a carton labelled "Heavy Cream" and nothing else would have extra stuff. Ugh.
It's not just food. I bought a tablet at BestBuy to take overseas, so I also asked for a 240 charger converter. I was sold a converter bar that says in the directions "not to be used for more than ten minutes", and printed right on the bar are the words "for hair dryers and similar products only, not for use on electronically controlled devices". BestBuy doesn't sell hair dryers, but they sell computer-buyers accessories meant for hair dryers..
By the way, my all-time favorite whimsical ingredient was on a tetra-box of Hi-C,, which is consumed unseen by poking a straw through a hole in the top of the opaque container. It contained three different food colorings -- in a product whose color is never seen by the consumer.
And the food colouring in children's painkillers. You give it to them in a syringe down the back of the throat FFS!
I was once told by an American in all seriousness that it was impossible to make bread wihout added sugar.
The worst stuff is what doesn't show up, at least in the US: GMO
Not at all. There are far more toxicity problems out there than food items having simple changes in DNA sequences. Don't worry about that. You don't turn green and leafy after eating a lettuce leaf full of billions of genes encoding chlorophyll and leaf shapes do you?
And no rice, bananas, potatoes or many other modern versions of vegetables and fruits eaten today were genetically identical to the ones around 100,000 years ago. All have been genetically modified (the old less efficient way - by selective breeding by hand, crossing big fruit banana A with sweet small banana B etc, or taking and cultivating the mango that had a spontaneous DNA mutation causing it to be extra tasty).
to OP: Worry about real problem chemicals that don't have any correlate chemicals whatsoever in nature. Be leery of those unless proven safe. And basically if you buy pre-made foods, rather than the raw ingredients, you are going to hit a plethora of additives you might fund unsavory (so to speak)
GMO and vaccine hysteria is the democrat's version of Republican's with their evolution denial and pollution-effects denial.
And just last year someone actually did lab analysis on many brands of US beer and found HFCS is being added to a lot of it. So US beer drinkers are unknowingly drinking gallons of HFCS a year because makers are hiding behind the no-labeling law in the US.
The hard truth about labeling laws is that many IMPORTANT ingredients do not have to be disclosed.
While more and more consumers started to read food labels, many don't recognize/understand half of the ingredients listed. This is because packaged food is loaded with additives, many of which have chemical or scientific names. (there are more than 6,000 food additives approved for use in the food industry)!!
The long list of "additives" means nothing to consumers, because many don't know about the potential harm to their health:
Spoiler
Reading labels reveal only part of the stuff is inside. The labels are misleading, inaccurate, some important ingredients (like sugar, or salt) are split and renamed, some listed might be present in a trace amount, they have unsubstantiated health claims, "natural" isn't natural, and "whole" isn't whole, GMO's are not listed, Made in ... is a joke, etc... etc...
(In addition, the FDA does not consistently enforce all violations of its own regulations.)
However, price, taste and brand often overrule ingredient/nutrition labeling when it comes to what makes consumers buy one food or drink product over another. Many are influenced by advertising.
Food companies are concerned with taste and shelf life than with our overall health.
Thousands of chemicals are used to make our food taste better, look better, and last longer, but most of these food additives, preservatives, and colorings are synthetic.
Some experts say you should choose foods with five or fewer ingredients, and I try go by this rule. When a product I want to buy has a long list of ingredients, that's a "red flag", and I am not buying it.
The portions/servings are unrealistic small (who eats a half cup of soup, 1/3 of can of something, or drink 6 oz of fluid????)
When you look at the FDA guideline posted here: Nutritional Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) Requirements (8/94 - 2/95) Statement
you will notice that the guide is 20+ years old. There are many new (chemical) ingredients added to our food in the last 20 years. Or new ways how the food is processed.
I swear these companies would roll a ball of dirt in some sugar and fat, color it, inject it with artificial flavor, and call it everything from chocolate to cheese if they could get away with it. OP they added color most likely because the original color of this mixture is off-putting and does not resemble real tea.
I do read the labels - if the ingredients include high fructose corn syrup or hydrogenated fat, it's probably going back on the shelf.
same here. I do try and get items lower in sodium too.
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