From No trans fat labels, to hiding controversial ingredients, here are Food marketing lies!
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5. Antioxidants
Studies have shown that more people will buy foods with antioxidants for no other apparent reason. It’s found in chocolate, 7up, raisins, wine, fruit juice etc. What are they though? They’re enzymes in your body that inhibit oxidation and prevent cell damage. Keeps your immune system supercharged. Some serious hype was formed from antioxidants in the 1990’s but some are curious is the hype is worth it. Sure antioxidants are great and all but they’re also popping up in unhealthy foods. Adding cherry flavoring and high fructose corn syrup to the mix doesn’t necessarily make it a whole lot healthier
4. No Juice No Sweetener
Here we see an example of a capri sun which has been labeled as having no artificial flavors and other natural flavors. The only weird part about them saying they have natural flavors is that in the nutritional facts section the label says that it contains no juice! So where did this mysterious flavoring come from? It’s not artificial and not from fruit juice, is it from the twilight zone or what? The drink still contains high fructose corn syrup, sucralose, splenda, and natural flavor. Sure there are no artificial colors but it’s chock full of sweetner. Don’t forget that Castoreum is a yellowish secretion from the beaver which is often mixed with their urine in order for them to mark their territory. Someone randomly decided to give it a taste and found out that it tasted like strawberries and raspberries! This is often given a labelling of natural flavor
3. More Natural Flavoring
You might come across a bottle of vitamin water and think what could possibly be unhealthy about this and the 0 calorie vitamin water must be even better right? A new sweetener is on the loose that is found in a plant but it can be processed to be 150 times sweeter than sugar. The process used to create this extraordinarily sweet food is anything but natural, using chemicals such as ethanol, isopropanol and other complicated chemicals. You can see it labeled on this bottle as stevia extract and coca cola has begun using it in a variety of products that will label it as organic. If it’s so natural, why did coca cola want to patent their process of extracting the stevia sweetner from the plant?. Some studies would insist that something this sweet can cause this body to act in a similar manner as if it were consuming something actually
2. Grass Fed Beef
We would all love to believe that beef labeled as grass fed is from cows who roamed around on pastures, eating green grass living life the way they were meant to live, until they get slaughtered at a butcher house. It’s not always clear to some people though how farmers are able to get that label. Basically they just have to apply for it from the USDA to get accepted. Grass fed beef is typically more expensive and can sell for a better price at grocery stores so it’sclear why people want to get that label. In order for it to really be grass fed beef, you need to see the words, US Grass Fed accompanied by USDA Process Verified
1. Frozen food
Not only are there probably hidden trans fats in that microwavable pizza, frozen foods are a mystery on their own. When it comes to frozen food, what you see is not always what you’re going to get, kind of like how this person got ripped off. How long can frozen food still stay good for, is what many people are asking and there seems to be a lot of mystery surrounding them. Frozen foods don’t require any preservatives because freezing the food keeps it edible for a long period of time. However, when they reach these drastically low temperatures, often under 0 degrees, they begin to lose flavor. Many items such as fish, chicken or beef can be frozen for over a year before you put them in the microwave. Frozen foods can often be labeled as fresh but when it reality, the food company just froze it while it was fresh and sells it when demand reaches their requirement. Most fruits and veggies you don’t have to worry much about them