Can someone please explain to me nutrition labels and superfoods. For example I have linked photos of a yogurt I purchased recently. This is labeled as crushed superfoods. Yet the nutrition label shows almost no significant vitamins. What am I missing? Or is this just junk food in disguise?
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Nutrition labels do not have to list all ingredients. There are something like 3000 food additives they can add without listing them. These additives are in small quantities and presumed safe because of that. Most additives were being used before regulations were created so they just said they are presumed safe because they had been in use for some time.
The term is GRAS Generally Recognized As Safe. Yes this is a real FDA term.
Things put on this list when it was created have not been tested and many are truly questionable and many definitely bad for you in large quantities. No testing has been done for long term exposure to small quantities. Things added after the list was created in 1958 have to pass different standards.
This came out, about food additives in the 1970’s and there was a big public uproar. By now most people have forgotten and eat anything, being pretty oblivious to the ingredients. People assume because they are being fed it that it is safe, when truly food can kill or cure (or neither). You choose when you buy. You just may not get the results of your choices for ten years and then it’s too late, the damage has been done, if you don’t pay attention. Most people eat fairly moderately though.
It is well known processed food is not good for you but we all eat it. This is one of the reasons for it being harmful.
Food additives are added to preserve food, to make it easier to process (like additives that make the food flow easier through the equipment for canning or bottling), to change the taste (flavorings that may come from strange sources), or to keep the taste consistent (such as having all tomato juice taste the same when natural tomatoes taste very different) .
To avoid additives buy less processed or not processed. Eat more fruits and vegetables. The many college nutrition classes I’ve taken can be boiled down to that one sentence.
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