{"id":3797,"date":"2009-02-24T11:02:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2009-02-24T12:29:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T16:29:21","slug":"tuesday-tip-take-the-time-to-read-ingredients-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/02\/tuesday-tip-take-the-time-to-read-ingredients-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tip: Take the time to read ingredients labels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This post is something I’ve had on the backburner to talk about and Olga<\/a> helped push it to the forefront! :D\u00a0 She just happened to be reading the ingredient list on her box of All Bran when she discovered it had High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS<\/abbr>) in it.\u00a0 Naturally she was shocked because, hello, it’s All Bran.\u00a0 HFCS<\/abbr> shouldn’t be anywhere near that stuff and yet there it was.<\/p>\n

Ingredient lists can be an interesting thing and they haven’t been mandatory in the US for all that long.\u00a0 I actually remember when it started getting more focus and companies were grumbling because they didn’t want to list all the ingredients on the package.\u00a0 Sort of leaves you feeling a bit uneasy, doesn’t it?\u00a0 However, my Google-Fu is failing me and I can’t find out exactly when listing ingredients came into effect.\u00a0 If you know, please share!<\/p>\n

Ingredients are listed by weight and this is true no matter what you’re looking at (I actually discovered this information when I was researching dog foods and was shocked to find that typically corn or some other filler was first in the list.), people food or pet food.\u00a0 This means that the first ingredient on the list makes up the majority of the product you are reading about.\u00a0 A good rule of thumb is that the first 3-5 ingredients listed on the package are generally what the product consists of.\u00a0 If sugar is listed as one of the top ingredients, bad news.\u00a0 And by sugar, I mean refined white sugar, corn syrup, or\u00a0 HFCS<\/abbr>.\u00a0 HFCS<\/abbr> is just bad all around, I don’t care what the corn growers tell you.<\/p>\n

I have now taken to reading ingredient lists all the time because I want to know what I’m eating and I want to avoid sneaky companies who throw HFCS<\/abbr> in things where it has no business being.\u00a0 I want to be able to pronounce everything in the list or at least recognize it as something benign.\u00a0 Some things I’ll look up if I already have the product at home.\u00a0 Other things I’ll put back on the shelf if the ingredient list doesn’t sit right with me.\u00a0 I also want the ingredient list to be short and not something that takes up the entire side of the box.\u00a0 If I get bored while reading the list, the list is too long.\u00a0 I do this for our food and for any treats I buy Rocky.<\/p>\n

You know those people who stand in the grocery aisles looking and reading over everything?\u00a0 Become one of those people.\u00a0 Take the time to read ingredient lists on the stuff you eat.\u00a0 You may learn something you didn’t know before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is something I’ve had on the backburner to talk about and Olga helped push it to the forefront! \u00a0 She just happened to be reading the ingredient list on her box of All Bran when she discovered it had High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS<\/abbr>) in it.\u00a0 Naturally she was shocked because, hello, it’s […]<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-Zf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797"}],"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=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}