Garbage in Our Food
Breakfast cereal used to feature grains, nuts and dried fruit. But those ingredients are only highlighted on TV commercials these days. Now breakfast food sold in the US comes loaded down with sugar, fat and salt. These additives have almost no nutritional value, but cause physiological reactions in people causing them to crave more.
High Fructose Corn Syrup
This highly concentrated sugar is cheap to produce because the corn industry enjoys massive federal subsidies in the US. High fructose corn syrup is in virtually every processed food on the shelves of many grocery stores.
Whey
It’s hard to understand why cereal manufacturers dump milk fat all over food that is typically served with milk. Apparently food processors need to counteract the use of skim milk by dieters looking for “healthy” alternatives.
Sodium
Salt is used extensively as a preservative in processed foods. This allows food companies to ship all of their products out from one large manufacturing facility.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
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