Do we really know what we are eating? One would think that a food label would help but think again! Did you know that 60% of the processed foods in the market contain genetically modified/engineered ingredients. It is bad enough that Americans are in love with and are consuming tons of processed foods, (and I will actually leave that issue alone today) …OK, may be I will just make one single point about this and that is if you read the ingredient label on a food product and you cannot pronounce the word and/or you have never seen the ingredient before and then have to look it up on Wikipedia to see what the ingredients means because it is not really a food but an additive or a chemical preservative, then please consider putting it back on the shelf and trying something else. Okay, got that out….
So what was I saying, yes, genetically modified/engineered ingredients. Be aware that currently the FDA does not require a food label to announce that it is GMO free or full of GMO ingredients. So my suggestion is that if this is of concern to you, look for foods packages that are labeled GMO free. Companies that go out of their way to use GMO free ingredients, will likely go out of their way to label it.
To your health!
Dr in The Kitchen…
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