Tag: food additives
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Panera to Give All Food Additives the Heave-Ho
from usatoday.com: Panera is about to announce a radical plan for all artificial additives in the food it sells: junk ’em. Amid growing consumer concern about the ingredients in foods […]
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Chick-fil-A to Serve Chicken Without Antibiotics
from usatoday.com: Here’s a chicken that has surprisingly crossed the road — away from antibiotics. Chick-fil-A, the nation’s largest chicken chain in annual sales, shocked the fast-food world late Tuesday […]
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80% of Pre-Packaged Foods in America Are Banned in Other Countries
from babble.com: If you or your kids enjoy pre-packaged convenience foods commonly found in grocery stores across the U.S. such as Froot Loops, Swanson dinners, Mountain Dew, and frozen potato and […]
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‘Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us’
New York Times journalist Michael Moss spent three-and-a-half years working out how big food companies get away with churning out products that undermine the health of those who eat them.
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Top 10 Packaged Foods You Shouldn’t Buy
I added five more to Jane Mountain’s list, for a total of 10. Canned Soup, Stock or Bouillon, Canned Beans, Hummus, Cereal, Microwave Popcorn, Bottled or ‘Functional’ Water, Fruit and Vegetable Juice, Yogurt, and Fermented Vegetables.
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Bug-Based Food Dye – Harmful Or Not?
In April, 2012, beverage giant Starbucks came under fire for using a red dye–carmine, made from crushed cochineal beetles–to color their strawberry flavored drinks. They have since changed to a tomato-based food coloring.
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Calcium Supplementation Linked to Heart Attacks, Why and How
Real food is your best source of calcium.
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How Vegetable Oils Replaced Animal Fats in the American Diet
from theatlantic.com: Reprinted from The Happiness Diet: The by-products of pork production meant that the burgeoning metropolis [Cincinnati] was also home to many tanneries, boot makers, and upholsters. Animal fats […]
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Dover Air Force Base Ordered to Restart Water Fluoridation
Dover Air Force base in Maryland stopped adding fluoride to their water system in 2007. In 2010, they reported this in their water quality report. After this knowledge became public the Air Force issued new orders three months later that forced the base to restart fluoridation.
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A Populace Pink Slimed
A trio of governors and a duo of lieutenant governors last week dined on pink slime burgers and pronounced them mouth-wateringly-delicious-and-nutritious as TV cameras rolled on their barbecue in a Nebraska factory that manufactures the stuff.
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Glow in the dark sushi made from genetically modified fish becomes the latest food craze to hit America
from dailymail.co.uk: Sushi that glows in the dark has become the latest must try food craze across America. Inspired by genetically modified fish first bred for scientific research, a video […]
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captain obvious on: why lovin’ the mcrib isn’t a heartsmart idea
@McRibSandwich? they should call it the ‘McGymMat’ from healthland: Blink and it’s gone. The ephemeral McRib sandwich appears at McDonald’s infrequently and only for a limited time. If you haven’t […]
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AG Subsidies Fund Junk Food, Report Says
from food safety news: Each year when Americans pay their taxes, part of that money feeds into subsidies for junk food ingredients; and hardly any of it goes toward fresh […]