Tag: food labeling

Making The Whole Grain Switch: Some Amazing Benefits Of Eating Whole Grains

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Making The Whole Grain Switch: Some Amazing Benefits Of Eating Whole Grains
Whole Grain Goodness: Why You Should Switch To Whole Grains If You Haven’t Already With all the dietary recommendations out there, it is easy to get confused. It seems like every day there is some new breakthrough discovery, or unearthing of a long-lost indigenous plant that is the cure for whatever happens to be ailing you. One recommendation that is pretty much universally agreed upon is that we need whole grains in our diet–and with good reason.… Read the rest

Beaver Butts and Bugs: The BS Term ‘Natural Flavoring’ And How It Is Used to Trick You

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Beaver Butts and Bugs: The BS Term ‘Natural Flavoring’ And How It Is Used to Trick You
The War Against Meaning Continues: How Big Food Uses ‘Natural’ Flavorings To Trick You Into Eating Garbage Food “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.” –George Orwell George Orwell’s prescient thoughts ring true today–so true in fact that the man would probably stand in stark bewilderment at how insincerity and obfuscation have come to dominate the language of the 21st century.… Read the rest