10 Things Snack Food Companies Won't Say

Do you ever wonder if what you are eating is really as healthy as you thought that it might be?  Is the food industry really being honest in their labeling?  Does the labeling really make any sense?  Hopefully the linked article will make you think, and then reconsider what you are choosing to eat. 

Someone recently told me "Don't eat it if your greatgrandmother wouldn't recognize the ingredients."  Sounds like some sound advice to me.  Below are listed the ten points, with a "tease" to get you started on #1.  Here's the article:  10 Things Snack Food Companies Won't Say

1. This is illegal in Canada
...Olestra isn’t the only banned substance that Americans are noshing on. Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, or rBGH (commonly sold under the name Posilac), a synthetic hormone injected into cows to stimulate milk production, pops up in many dairy-based snacks like ice cream. Not in the European Union or Canada, where it has been banned amid health concerns for both cows and humans, including fears that a hormone associated with cancer might be higher in people who drink milk treated with rBGH.

2. We added pulverized insects to your snack

3. Expiration date? There’s no expiration date

4. That energy bar may exhaust you

5. There are pig bones in your pudding

6. “Natural” is naturally meaningless

7. We’re spending billions to make kids fat

8. Our factories are filthy

9. Your candy bar habit is making us rich—and infuriating retailers

10. When we say “enriched,” we mean processed