When 100% "Corporate" Nutrition Doesn't Equal "Real" Nutrition

One of the main concerns that I have with the food industry is the manipulation and the misleading messages that they send to the public. I mean it really comes down to one philosophy: make as much money as possible and forget about being truthful to people.

A good example of this are store bought breads/crackers. The FDA can only regulate only a given amount of material and facts about products. Companies are using catchy words like "full of whole grains", "zero grams trans fat", "12 grain", and my favorite "100% whole wheat". Companies can say whatever they want to an extent on the title of their product. For example if you take a bread and sprinkle some grains on the top then it magically turns into 12 grain bread! A bread can also be called 100% whole wheat but if the ingredients do not say 100% then it really isn't 100% but much less. So much less in fact that the other percent of the bread isn't wheat but what instead really? Hmmm....maybe.....dreaded white bread!

Read the ingredient list and not the catchy and misleading titles of food products. Demand the truth and don't be mislead by money hungry food manufacturers.