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Diet Sodas: The Great Phenylalamine Brigade
September 13, 2011 | Author admin
The Chemical of Choice
Have you looked at the back of your diet soda lately? Diet soda labels now have an exciting new addition: warning: Phenylketonurics – contains phenylalanine. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hazardous Chemicals, The Truch About... | 
Tags: Aspartame, diet coke, diet soda, FDA, Hansen's soda, NutraSweet, phenylalamine | 
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Paying the Piper – the Price of Eating Diet Food
June 4, 2011 | Author admin
The Diet Dilemma
You may be eating less fat or less sugar when you grab that package that says “lite”, “diet”, “50% less sugar”, “50% less fat”, “fat-free”, “sugar-free”, “reduced fat”, but you’re also getting a Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hazardous Chemicals, Labeling Trickery, The Truch About... | Tags: 50% less fat, 50% less sugar, Cheez-Its, diet, fat-free, Hershey's Syrup, Ken's Creamy Caesar, Knudsen Fat Free Sour Cream, lite, Michelina's Fettucine Alfredo with Chicken & Broccoli, Orville Redenbacher's Natural popcorn, reduced fat, Sargento String Cheese, Skippy Natural, Sugar Free Oreo Cookies, sugar-free, Yoplait Original | Comments Closed
Palm Oil, Peanut Butter, and Popcorn
May 24, 2011 | Author admin
The Popcorn
I’m not a big fan of microwave popcorn but I noticed that several major brands had come out with “all natural” versions. Only one of the three I bought actually tasted good Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in The Truch About..., Weird Ingredients | Tags: all natural, Jif, Laura Scudders, monounsaturated fat, Newman's Own, Orville Redenbacher, palm oil, peanut butter, polyunsatruated fat, popcorn, saturated fat, Skippy, Wild Harvest | Comments Closed
For all the Do-Gooders: Charitable Food
May 9, 2011 | Author admin
I picked up a box of Triscuits last week and noticed an unusual graphic on the front – someone appeared to be farming. They were actually promoting a “Plant a Seed Grow a Movement” campaign with a nonprofit called Urban Farming. Intrigued, we looked for other similar cause marketing campaigns around the grocery store (on food items) to see what we would find. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in The Truch About... | Tags: Banquet Chicken Pot Pie, Betty Crocker, Betty Crocker Fruit Roll-ups, Betty Crocker Roasted Garlic Potatoes, Box Tops for Education, cause marketing, charity, Child Hunger Ends Here, Frigo Cheesehead, Keebler, Keebler Chips Deluxe Cookies Rainbow, Make-a-Wish Foundation, Newman's Own Foundation, Newman's Own Frozen Pizza, One Laptop Per Child, Terracycle, Triscuit, Urban Farming, World Wildlife Fund | Comments Closed
Lawsuit: High Fructose Corn Syrup is NOT the Same as Sugar
May 1, 2011 | Author admin
The Corn Refiners Association has become really aggressive in their advertising in the last few years because of declining sales of products that use high fructose corn syrup. See (Corn) Sugar Is (Cane) Sugar – the Corn Refiners Association’s Ship of Deception Named High Fructose Corn Syrup Is Sinking Read the rest of this entry »
