The big food industry spends $14 billion a year to trick you into eating their products
“All natural”
“Organic”
“Natural flavors”
“Free range”
“Grass fed”
What do these actually mean? And what should you really look for?
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Grocery stores are loaded with products that brag about their seemingly beneficial qualities.
Most people WANT to eat healthy, but aren’t informed to see past deceptive marketing.
In this thread, I’ll go through what these titles mean, and how to determine what is worth buying
The first, and maybe most common product label is “all natural”.
The FDA says that natural means no added colors, artificial flavors or synthetic substances.
However, there is ZERO formal regulation from them. That means it’s up to to take the food manufacturers’ word for it.
Items can still contain high fructose corn syrup, seed oils, antibiotics, GMO’s, etc and still be labeled natural.
Therefore, the term is pretty much meaningless.
The next label that most people take into consideration is “organic”.
In order to be considered organic, food do adhere to pretty strict regulations. However, that doesn’t necessarily make it healthy.