A recent article examined the contents of many popular foods these days. We are just going to highlight a few:
“1. The package for Gerber Graduates for Preschoolers’ juice treats pictures a bounty of fresh fruits — oranges, grapes, peaches, cherries, pineapples and berries — yet one look at the ingredient list will tell you there’s no orange, peach, cherry or pineapple in the food and there’s less than 2 percent raspberry juice concentrate. What you do get is four teaspoons of refined sugar in every serving, thanks to a hefty dose of sugar and corn syrup. Gerber isn’t the only culprit, though. Plenty of food companies serve “made with real fruit” claims that they can hardly back up.
3. Assume that your bowl of strawberries and cream Quaker instant oatmeal is full of strawberries? Think again. In truth, the “strawberries” are dehydrated apples that are dyed red. Similarly, the peaches and cream variety has dehydrated apples that are dyed a peachy hue and doesn’t contain any real peaches.
4. Who needs carrots when you can have “carrot-flavored pieces”? Betty Crocker’s Supermoist Carrot Cake Mix is mostly flour, sugar and corn syrup, with a few carrot-flavored pieces for good measure. Made from (more) corn syrup and flour plus corn cereal, partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, carrot powder and artificial coloring, the ingredient list reads like a fifth-grade science project. If you can’t spare the time to make a cake from scratch, you’re better off with Duncan Hines, which lists dehydrated carrots as the third ingredient after flour and sugar.”
Be careful out there, you never know what might be in your “food”.
