Friday, June 17, 2016

SIX Ingredients to AVOID on Food Labels!

Do you read food labels?  If so, are there certain ingredients that you avoid?  Reading food labels can be a daunting task.  Attempting to read all of the words that are difficult to pronounce and an ingredient label that is super long.  This is actually my first clue that I should not buy the product. My husband and I have also created a list that makes it easier and faster to put a food product back on the shelf.

The ingredients that we avoid are
                Propylene glycol (like antifreeze)
                Monosodium glutamate (hidden under other names such as autolyzed and hydrolyzed) 
                Red Dye (actually all food dyes)
                High Fructose Corn Syrup
                Trans Fat (hidden in the ingredient label as hydrogenated)
                Interesterified Fat (worse than trans fat)

This is not an all-inclusive list, however it does make scanning a label a lot quicker.  If we see these ingredients, we simply put the item back on the shelf and search for another product.  Eventually it becomes easier to shop because you know which products and brands that have the ingredients in that you are okay with buying.  Just be careful because sometimes the ingredients do change.

The reason why we avoid these food is because they are not good for your body.  They are artificially made and have side effects.  In fact, over the years as we have consistently read food labels, we buy less in the grocery store and prepare our food from scratch at home.  It is time well invested for our family’s health.  We spend our evenings and mornings prepping foods and we utilize our crock pots.  It is not uncommon for us to have a crock pot cooking food through the night to pack for our lunches in the morning.  We then have a second crock pot that we put on a timer to cook throughout the day that has our dinner in it.


It is time well invested.  Time invested on our health.

Dr. Pam Tomaszycki, D.C.

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