Top 10 Food Facts – May Week 2

Hello FoodEssentialists!

Are canned tomatoes as healthy as fresh tomatoes? Or is low fat yogurt a better option than full fat yogurt? These are the type of questions and perceptions that the FoodEssentials food facts aim to challenge. Each week we discover something new, surprising and (at times) alarming. This week we discovered that some cookies and biscuits can contain MSG of all things, and that some brands of butter can even contain high fructose corn syrup. Obviously, this can’t be the norm? Why these additives are even needed in foods such as cookies and butter, this writer is not able to answer, but do you know why? Do you have an opinion?

• Over 50% of cookies contain high fructose corn syrup

• Butter can contain high fructose corn syrup – why does butter need to be sweetened?

• 30% of diced canned tomatoes were found to contain high fructose corn syrup

• Only 4 out of 94 grape juices contain high fructose corn sugar & artificial color Blue 1 – great news!

• Watch out! This juice contains sodium benzoate, artificial color Blue 1 and Red 40
  

• Avoiding artificial colorants? List of fruit juices containing artificial color Red 40 – almost 30%!

• Almost 1/2 the BBQ sauces contain artificial color Red 40 – so watch out!

• Cookies and biscuits can contain MSG – Wow! Who would have thought that cookies contained msg?

• 500 calorie difference between lowest calorie butter and highest calorie butter

• These yogurts may be “low-fat” but they all contain aspartame – find out which brands are the culprits.

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