8 Fixes Nutritionists Want on Food Labels

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AS consumers we have the right to know:
Where the food is grown?
Is it genetically engineered?
Where is the food Manufactured?
What are the manufacturing processes ...cold pressed, the type of filtration..?
What are all of the ingredients that have been used to make this product?
Percentages of daily requirements, allergens,are educational issues and should be dealt with in other ways. Many of the additives have no meaning to a consumer and virtually no long term testing has been done on these additives. Why are they added to a product? If you can't say for sure that it is healthy, then don't add it. Quit trying to make food cheap by adding preservatives for longer shelf life that end up making us sick. This is about money and money only.
For those of you who still bake, look at a recipe for almost anything. How many ingredients are there? How many can you not pronounce or not know what they are?
We have lost our COMMON SENSE!
Substitute LONG TERM PLANNING for shot term GREED!

Dennis 2:53PM December 08, 2008

it would take a genius to understand or know about all the
additives in food. I would like to know why safer and/or
natural additives are not used. could it be profits are
the reason?
merrio

merrio fryman of MI 4:12PM November 10, 2008

Breads that call themselves "hi fiber" etc. frequently have far fewer grams of fiber than Nature's Own Lite breads, which give you 1 Weight Watcher's point per TWO slices. People concerned about things like fiber should not be fooled by so-called "high fiber" products.

Jerry of TX 2:13PM November 10, 2008

My husband is allergic to sunflower oil. MOst foods show sunflower oil or safflower oil or cottonseed oil or soybean oil or peanut oil on the same label so I asked the grocer to find out which oil was in the ingredients such as potato chips and he was not helpful.
Please do not send my email address to the third party.

Evelyn Schupp of AZ 10:38AM November 10, 2008

They need to put down what are the spices that was labeled.
Some spices have paprika that I am allergic to that I called 800 number and aome won't tell me what the spices are. I told the person that I would not buy at all.
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Evelyn Schupp of AZ 10:29AM November 10, 2008

I sit here thinking to myself just how small will the print need to be to get all the "information" you are proposing on a can of beans? This all seems absurd! Why not go back to Basics. Decide How Much Added Fats, Sugars, Salts, Or anything else that is deemed Important to know should be healthy and be done with the Label Game for good! Once you set those standards then make ANY, I REPEAT, ANY product that is above what is deemed healthy wear a Great Big Scarlet Letter of a Label that sayes "Eatting This Can Kill You!!!"
I also feel some degree of Common Sence should be Expected from the Public as well. Tax Payers send us to school to become educated. Shouldn't that mean we would know eatting 6 Twinkies and a milkshake will make you fat? Yes,we all know that don't we. And we also know eatting Chips and Fast Food is bad for you!
So beyond Labeling for things like Ingrediants and maybe how many REAL People it will feed leave well enough alone. Although, better labeling of things like Dairy, Nuts, and Lugumes needs to be done for the benifit of those with allergies should be concidered.
I am a Cattle Rancher by trade and I hear all the time Beef is Bad for you because some Doctors decided they didn't like hamburgers. Well to set the matter srtaight, Beef is good for you in Moderate amounts and a great source of Iron and Vitamin B complex. Even I will tell you not to eat the Fat and I raise the stuff!
So lets all get some Common Sence and Grow Up America!

Hugh Powell of TX 8:45PM November 02, 2008

The is a major soup manufacturer we all know selling cans of soup that say "NO MSG" on the front. Read the back of the can to see modified food starch in the ingredients, bassically the same soy derivitive. Many people are sensitive to soy beans and there is much discussion as to the safety of this chemical. It is a flavor boster that allows the manufacturer to use cheaper ingredients and then jack up the taste by adding MSG, modified food starch, and any other names the chemical is known by.
Educate youself. Read the labels on your food and if you don't know what the ingredients are look them up on the internet. You may be surprised. Profit is the bottom line for the food industry and if they can convince you that their product is healthy it means bigger profits. Don't trust the manufacturers or the FDA with your health. One last thing. The next time you see an ingredient label that says "May containe one or more of the following:", throw it in the trash. If the people that made it don't know what is in it then you don't either and it may not be safe to consume.

Dan S. of FL 7:36PM November 02, 2008

How much more do you want to spend on your food, those nutritional analyses, the 30" long sack for your 2" candy bar? The labor to assimilate the above?
Ingredient labels should definitely say what the ingredients are, and how many total calories. It should be left to the individual to quantify his/her nutritional needs.

of 6:23PM November 02, 2008

First thing ..
"All disease is due to the over acidity of the body,, from what you eat and think" Dr Robert O. Young ("The pH Miracle", "Sick and Tired", The pH Miracle for Weight Loss")
BTW Allergies are due to over acidity ...
All key ingredients need to be on the front of the package ... or the stores be required to put the ingredient label facing the food isle .. so I don't have to take the product off the shelf to see if it is any good for me.
Putting the pH on the front of the product tells me more than anything else on the label could or can. The higher the pH the more free electrons ..and that is the purpose of eating, to get electrons from the sun to me cells ... being my body is electrical.
The ORP Oxygen Reduction Potential the higher the negative ORP the "less" oxygen reduction.
High fast flowing mountain streams have a high negative ORP ..Your tap water, 99% of all bottled water, and processed beverages have a high positive ORP, they deplete the body of oxygen. Dr. Otto Warbugh (sp?) winner of the Nobel Prize in 1933(?) stated that cancer can only grow in an oxygen poor environment.

Daniel of NV 4:33PM November 02, 2008

We need our genetically modified food to be labled. In Europe any food containing greater than one percent GMO must be labled as such, and in the US no labeling is required at all. The only way to avoid eating GMO food is to not eat any processed food that isnt organic. I practice this but for most people it isnt realistic, so we need all of our Genetically altered food to be labled!!

brock of LA 4:03PM November 02, 2008