| Do you read the labels when you choose your food? | | | | whatever "healthy" ingredient they want to appear |
| Do you think you understand what they really mean? | | | | at the top of the list. For example, suppose you read |
| You may have to change your thinking. Here are | | | | on that juice bottle label, "cranberry juice, corn syrup, |
| some of the grocery shopping secrets you need to | | | | sugar, high fructose corn syrup and vitamin C."It |
| know.Grocery Shopping Secrets - Lying LabelsRead | | | | looks like the primary ingredient is just natural juice. |
| labels much and you'll notice that almost all packaged | | | | Perhaps the real story is: 27% juice, 25% corn syrup, |
| products have hydrogenated or partially | | | | 24% sugar, 23 % high fructose corn syrup, 1% |
| hydrogenated oil in them. This is the stuff scientists | | | | Vitamin C. The three types of sugar add up to 72% |
| give to mice to cause heart disease when they want | | | | of the entire bottle's contents! This little trick is |
| to study that disease! The good news is that, due to | | | | becoming depressingly common.Think you are buying |
| consumer demand, some brands have stopped using | | | | whole wheat products? Whole wheat bread is only |
| it in some of their products. The bad news is that it | | | | whole wheat if it says 100% whole wheat. In fact, |
| is still in well over half of all packaged grocery | | | | even then you should look closer. It might actually |
| products.Look at those labels when you're grocery | | | | say, "Contains 100% whole wheat," which just means |
| shopping, and you'll also see that sugar is showing up | | | | they at least threw one wheat grain in there."Wheat |
| in almost everything. It is even added to most brands | | | | bread," "wheat flour," "unbleached wheat flour," and |
| of kidney beans, which used to be packed in just | | | | "wheat," all just mean some variety of processed |
| water and salt. Why add sugar? Two reasons. The | | | | white flour that originated from wheat grain. "Wheat" |
| first is simply that our taste buds have come to | | | | bread is usually nothing more than white bread with |
| crave sweetness. This, however, doesn't explain why | | | | enough whole grain thrown in to color it. "Wheat |
| it is in things like kidney beans. That is a bigger | | | | blend" pasta is the latest trick to make you think |
| secret.Sugar is added to kidney beans, peanut butter | | | | you're buying whole wheat. It is again just white flour |
| and many other products that don't need it for taste | | | | (always the first ingredient, if you look on the label) |
| because these are convenient places to dump it. You | | | | with enough whole wheat "blended" in to let you feel |
| see, sugar is cheap - cheaper than the other | | | | you are buying a healthier food, so they can charge |
| ingredients. Government subsidies have helped | | | | more.Here is one more grocery shopping secret or |
| produce so much cheap sugar that growers need to | | | | those who want healthier fruits and vegetables. Most |
| dump it into as many products as they can. This | | | | frozen fruits and vegetables, when tested against |
| works well for the makers of food products. More | | | | "fresh" fruits and vegetables, have more vitamin |
| sugar and less of the more expensive peanuts in that | | | | content. Why? The flash-freezing that is done shortly |
| peanut butter means more profit.Here an even | | | | after they are picked, preserves the vitamins. "Fresh" |
| nastier secret: Manufacturers are lying about the | | | | fruits and vegetables are in trucks for days, exposed |
| amount of sugar they put in their products. You may | | | | to heat and air, then sit at the grocery store for |
| be aware that they have to list the ingredients on | | | | days,and finally in your refrigerator for days. They |
| the label in order, according to how much of each | | | | lose much of their vitamin content as a result of this |
| their is. What if they have a product that has more | | | | treatment. Frozen fruits and veggies can be healthier, |
| sugar than anything else? They don't want it at the | | | | and they are even cheaper at times, like when the |
| top of the list where everyone can see that it is the | | | | particular fruit or vegetable isn't in season.Steve |
| primary ingredient, right?This is how they hide it: | | | | Gillman has been hunting down obscure knowledge |
| They put three types of sugar into the product, so | | | | and useful secrets for years. |
| that no one of them is a larger amount than | | | | |