Recent News & Comments About food labels
Heather Bauer, RD, CDN: What Food Labels Really Mean
For most, deciphering nutrition labels can be like reading hieroglyphics. It can be time-consuming and thankless. I'm committed to providing my readers as much accurate nutrition information as possible.
Consumer Demand for Food Justice Labels: The Next Big Thing
While consumer demand for information about where our food comes from and how it?s grown is increasing, thus far there has been relatively little interest in the people that actually harvest it. Commonly used labels such as???natural,? ?free range,? ?genetically engineered,? ?heirloom,? ?organic? and ?local,? indicate nothing about how the farmworkers who pick these foods ...
USDA promotes new food labels
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now providing in-store nutrition information for food safety and inspection on ground meat and poultry and for the forty most popular cuts of meat and poultry.
Allergies update for food labels
ONE in 10 Australian children are diagnosed with severe food allergies, prompting supermarket giant Coles to overhaul food labels.
Food labels silent on meat glue'
Every day, millions of Americans are likely putting something in their mouths that contains a substance called "meat glue" by critics of the food industry.
If You Knew the Danger, Would You Buy it?
Can you pronounce 4-phenylenediamine? What about triethanolamine? Neither can I. Now, can you say high fructose corn syrup? Chances are you read your food labels carefully to avoid that particular sweetener. You probably also buy organic produce and dairy products.
7 easy ways to avoid processed food
For years, if I even looked at food labels, I was reviewing items such as fat grams, calorie count and sugar content. While those things may be important to some people, the list of ingredients is the best indicator of how highly processed a food is. If what you are buying contains more than five ingredients and includes a lot of unfamiliar, unpronounceable items, you should think twice before ...
Indie Lee: If You Knew the Danger, Would You Buy it?
What surprises me is that many consumers pay so much attention to the ingredients that go into their food but so little attention to what goes on their skin, their largest organ.
Labels for modified food fail in Conn. legislature
A key Connecticut lawmaker says efforts to enact state legislation requiring labeling of genetically modified food died in the face of threatened lawsuits by food producers.Rep. Richard Roy, the House ...
Reading Food Labels: Naturallysavvy
Unjunk Your Junk Food . Have you seen it at Barnes & Noble or Amazon ? What a terrific book! I received it at no charge from those wonderful folks at NaturallySavvy because they're . . .
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