Have You Read Your Ingredient Lists Lately?
RobynMWilson
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We talk about all the horrid little chemicals in McDonald's food, right?
How come we aren't talking about all the horrid little chemicals in food that is labeled "healthy"? The pic below is the ingredients list for a WW cereal bar. Just because the package says it's healthy and good for you, doesn't mean that it is...
READ YOUR INGREDIENT LISTS, PEEPS!
How come we aren't talking about all the horrid little chemicals in food that is labeled "healthy"? The pic below is the ingredients list for a WW cereal bar. Just because the package says it's healthy and good for you, doesn't mean that it is...
READ YOUR INGREDIENT LISTS, PEEPS!
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Not that I ever eat that stuff, but which of those ingredients are "horrid" ?0
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seriously, how can there be THAT MANY CHEMICALS in a granola bar?!0
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Do you know how many are in everything?
Here are a few from coffee:150 Aliphatic compounds
56 Carbonyl compounds
9 Sulfur containing compounds
20 Alicyclic compounds
10 Ketones
60 Aromatic benzenoid compounds
16 Phenols
300 Heterocyclic compounds
74 Furans
10 Hydrofurans
37 Pyrroles
9 Pyridines
2 Quinolines
70 Pyrazines
10 Quinoxalines
3 Indoles
23 Thiophens
3 Thiophenones
28 Thiazoles
28 Oxazole
It's all chemicals. All food is chemicals.0 -
I'd like to see the nutritional information... the filling has sugar as the number one ingredient, and Glucose Syrup as the number 3 ingredient, and I see 2 more mentions of sugar and 1 more glucose syrup in other parts of the bar. And calling it glucose syrup isn't going to change the fact that it is also a sugar...0
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Unless you go the expensive way which is all organic you will always be putting some kind of chemical in your body. I was horrified to ready an article about aspartame which is a chemical in all sugar substitutes. And can be deadly. Not only that but it triggers your brain to respond in different ways. One way it makes your brain respond is by making it crave carbs. Not to mention that it has been causing major illness and there is a reported 90 deaths from the intake of aspartame. And yet its FDA approved!0
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Unless you go the expensive way which is all organic you will always be putting some kind of chemical in your body. I was horrified to ready an article about aspartame which is a chemical in all sugar substitutes. And can be deadly. Not only that but it triggers your brain to respond in different ways. One way it makes your brain respond is by making it crave carbs. Not to mention that it has been causing major illness and there is a reported 90 deaths from the intake of aspartame. And yet its FDA approved!
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I use fooducate just for this reason!! It scores the food you eat from a F-A+ and red flags anything that isn't good for you so you can read over it and learn about it, while deciding if your going to eat it anyways. I am for the most part going vegetarian again just so I can avoid eating HORRIBLE food. And just eat more fresh and GMO free foods.
FYI: its a scanner app for Iphone and Android phones. and can leave comments and add items if not in the system by taking a picture of the front and the ingredients items and email them to the app creator. SUPER AWESOME!!0 -
Did you know there are 15 different words for sugar?0
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Unless you go the expensive way which is all organic you will always be putting some kind of chemical in your body. I was horrified to ready an article about aspartame which is a chemical in all sugar substitutes. And can be deadly. Not only that but it triggers your brain to respond in different ways. One way it makes your brain respond is by making it crave carbs. Not to mention that it has been causing major illness and there is a reported 90 deaths from the intake of aspartame. And yet its FDA approved!
Umm not all organic foods and items are all that great as well. Just because its ORGANIC doesn't mean it doesn't have harmful things in it lol0 -
Did you know there are 15 different words for sugar?
Only 15?0 -
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Do you know how many are in everything?
Here are a few from coffee:
It's all chemicals. All food is chemicals.
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Did you know there are 15 different words for sugar?
Kind of like Eskimos and snow.0 -
No. Food is food and everything is made of chemicals. I'm made of chemicals, you're made of chemicals, the apple I ate earlier? Chemicals.
I don't waste time with ingredient lists. Takes time away from eating.0 -
Unless you go the expensive way which is all organic you will always be putting some kind of chemical in your body. I was horrified to ready an article about aspartame which is a chemical in all sugar substitutes. And can be deadly. Not only that but it triggers your brain to respond in different ways. One way it makes your brain respond is by making it crave carbs. Not to mention that it has been causing major illness and there is a reported 90 deaths from the intake of aspartame. And yet its FDA approved!
In...
...to learn about these 90 deaths from aspartame.0 -
Unless you go the expensive way which is all organic you will always be putting some kind of chemical in your body. I was horrified to ready an article about aspartame which is a chemical in all sugar substitutes. And can be deadly. Not only that but it triggers your brain to respond in different ways. One way it makes your brain respond is by making it crave carbs. Not to mention that it has been causing major illness and there is a reported 90 deaths from the intake of aspartame. And yet its FDA approved!
you realize that most "organic" fruit and vegetables are treated with some form of chemical right? I believe some of the "organic" farmers use DDT...0 -
I see nothing in that list that your body is incapable of metabolizing or handling properly0
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The derp. It's blinding me!0
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you realize that most "organic" fruit and vegetables are treated with some form of chemical right? I believe some of the "organic" farmers use DDT...
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I like to make stuff at home cause it tastes better for the most part. But with store bought things you have to put extra chemicals in it to keep it from going bad, otherwise you end up with stale granola bars and that's not much better. Is it ideal, no, but it's easy and they do taste good. Example: poptarts and Pizza pockets, they add tons of stuff to them, they're barely real food....but they taste soooo good, and the chemicals make that happen so I wont yell at companies for giving me poptarts.0
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We talk about all the horrid little chemicals in McDonald's food, right?
How come we aren't talking about all the horrid little chemicals in food that is labeled "healthy"? The pic below is the ingredients list for a WW cereal bar. Just because the package says it's healthy and good for you, doesn't mean that it is...
READ YOUR INGREDIENT LISTS, PEEPS!
Man, tapioca starch. It's horrendous that they put this stuff in food.0 -
If you ever get the chance go to a legit oriental grocery store and check out their calories on pretty much anything. A pound of sugary awesome cookies? Only 100 calories. It's like sabotage for weight loss.0
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Why would anyone assume a weight watchers bar is healthy? Or anything labeled "healthy." I mean, WTF does healthy mean? Now give me something that is, just per se, labeled 5 ingredients or less and all of which you can pronounce and I may assume it is healthy. Ok, get rid of the 5 or less. Just give me something labeled "every ingredient you can pronounce." IF I was looking for "healthy"
edit: for those of you who are really concrete: every ingredient on the list is something I can readily identify and clearly is not BEAVER BUTT (see video link).0 -
no *kitten* is given... if it was the right calories and fit my LGIT diet plan, i would eat it.... ALL FOOD IS CHEMICALS, everything in our world is made up of chemicals0
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having just had to start a migraine diet as the result of a 3 week long migraine, yes I was astonished at what has extra chemicals in the foods. I was told to stay away from natural flavors as it often contains MSG and I know that it often contains beaver butt but I was astonished at all the junk food contains. I bought some of the all fruit bars. the cherry ones had beet juice in them really? beet juice? why? I didn't want beet juice. It also had natural flavorings. so then I started reading. I am with you. Start reading it is a real eye opener.0
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http://foodbabe.com/2013/09/09/food-babe-tv-do-you-eat-beaver-butt/
Here is the link to the beaver butt article by the way.0 -
And calling it glucose syrup isn't going to change the fact that it is also a sugar...
Tell that to the people who think there's something magic about fructose that makes it holy and never a problem.
Then, just for cheap kicks, point out to them that the sugar in apricots is 63% sucrose, 25% glucose, and 10% fructose.
Sugar isn't a problem. Sugar for the sake of sugar, and sugary foods with no redeeming qualities are a problem.0 -
HA! I would take beet juice over beaver butt any day!!! You are a HOOT! Thank you.
EDIT: just watched the video. Love it. Beaver butt, indeed!0
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