{"id":13444,"date":"2011-04-29T08:59:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T12:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=13444"},"modified":"2011-04-29T08:59:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T12:59:57","slug":"read-food-labels-carefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2011\/04\/read-food-labels-carefully\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Food Labels Carefully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/OHC-review_fage_nutrition.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13445\" title=\"Fage Container \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/OHC-review_fage_nutrition-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/OHC-review_fage_nutrition-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/OHC-review_fage_nutrition.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve talked before about how you should<a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/02\/tuesday-tip-take-the-time-to-read-ingredients-labels\/\" target=\"_blank\"> take the time to read labels<\/a> of the products you&#8217;re about to buy and consume.\u00a0 Lots of interesting stuff can be found on the back of that container!<\/p>\n<p>Companies are not trying to help you out in any way regarding the information on their packaging.\u00a0 They are trying to FOOL you into buying something by making you think it is better than it really is.\u00a0 Companies care about money, they don&#8217;t really care about your health.<\/p>\n<p>Fooducate had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooducate.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/campbell-soup-has-a-math-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">excellent article about tricky food labels<\/a>.\u00a0 It showed the comparison between two cans of tomato soup. Same company, <em>except one can said it had 25% less sodium.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reading that, naturally one would believe that it contained 25% less sodium than the original version of the soup.<\/p>\n<p>Not true.<\/p>\n<p>What the company meant was that<em> this soup contained 25% less sodium than other similar soups<\/em>.\u00a0 Unless you searched for and then read the super fine print, you wouldn&#8217;t know that otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Lovely, no?<\/p>\n<p>Misleading and tricky labels are abundant now in this time of food stuffs. Make sure to read things thoroughly before purchasing this way you can feel confident that you made an informed decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you read food labels? We are sticklers now for making sure to read labels and checking things out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>P.S. That&#8217;s the back of a 2% Fage container. They aren&#8217;t trying to fool anybody. I&#8217;m using it because it shows the ingredients. <\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve talked before about how you should take the time to read labels of the products you&#8217;re about to buy and consume.\u00a0 Lots of interesting stuff can be found on the back of that container! Companies are not trying to help you out in any way regarding the information on their packaging.\u00a0 They are trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3uQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}