Fast Food

Food Summaries

Here are my thoughts regarding carrot cake. Only 95 ingredients. One hundred years ago, bread used to have 4 ingredients - whole grain flour, water, yeast and salt. People had far fewer physical ailments back then. Is there a connection?

Note

Sugar

The MAIN ingredient - Why is it called carrot cake? It should be called "Sugar Cake" (1)

1

Enriched Wheat Flour Bleached (Flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)

Flour that has had everything good removed from it, and has a TINY BIT put back in. "Enriched" is a long-standing, obfuscating corporate LIE. It sounds good, but in reality, is bad. Bleached? Gimme a break.

2-8

carrots

Good!

9

partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (soybean oil)

TFAs - the worst (1)

10

whole eggs, buttermilk,

cholesterol plus cholesterol

11-12

walnuts, raisins, pineapple and pineapple juice

Good!

16

leavening (baking soda,
sodium aluminum phosphate, aluminum sulfate)

aluminum this,
aluminum that,
as Alzheimer's rages on

17-19

molasses

Good!

20

natural and artificial flavoring

what kind of artificial flavoring? (1)

21

salt

Lots of salt (1)

22

Food starch-modified

AKA MSG

23

Cellulose gum

Huh?

24

pumpkin pie spice (cinnamon, ginger, cloves)

Good!

25-27

propylene glycol monostearate

Huh?

28

spice

As in, WHAT SPICE?

29

dextrose

more sugar (2)

30

mono and diglycerides

Huh? (1)

31-32

carmel color

OK, I guess

33

sodium stearoyl lactylate

dough conditioner

34

allspice

OK, I guess.

35

corn starch

OK, I guess.

36

propylene glycol

artificial flavor solvent
see Tina's Monster Muffin

37

citric acid

Good!

38

sugar

even more sugar (3)

39

cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream)

even more cholesterol

40-41

cheese cultures

OK, I guess

42

salt

even more salt (2)

43

stabilizers (carob bean gum, and/or guar gum, and/or xanthan gum)

maybe this, maybe that

44-46

margarine (partially hydrogenated soy and cottonseed oils, water, salt, mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin, sodium benzoate, citric acid (preservatives)

more TFAs (2),
more salt (3),
more diglycerides (2)

47-55

artificial flavor

more artificial flavor (2)

56

artificial color (vitamin A palmitate)

artificial color (1)

57

vegetable oil (partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed)

even more TFAs (3)

58-59

maltodextrin, corn starch, water

OK, I guess

60-62

natural and artificial flavor

more artificial flavor (3)

63-64

corn starch

more corn starch

65

food starch - modified

more MSG

66

mono and diglycerides

?? (3)

67-68

salt

even more salt (4)

69

glucono delta lactone

raising agent

70

soy oil

more fat

71

benzoic acid

preservative

72

polysorbate 60

preservative

73

propyl gallate (antioxidant)

preservative

74

artificial color

more artificial color

75

sugar

even more sugar (4)

76

vegetable shortening (partially hydrogenated soybean and/or cottonseed oils)

even more TFAs (4)

77-78

propylene glycol monoesters

pesticide

79

mono diglycerides

?? (4)

80

lecithin

Good!

81

sodium stearoyl lactylate

more conditioner

82

water

Good!

83

butter

even more fat

84

wheat starch

more MSG

85

mono diglycerides

?? (5)

86

salt

even more salt (5)

87

artificial flavor

more artificial color (4)

88

polysorbate 60

more polysorbate 60

89

artificial color (may contain the following:
Blue 1, Blue 2, Red 3, Red 40, Yellow 5 or 6, Yellow 5 or 6 Lake)

more artificial color (2),
They won't tell what is REALLY in it, will they?

90-95

Contains: Wheat, eggs, soy, milk, and walnuts.

Salt
Diglycerides
Sugar
Artificial color
Artificial flavor
Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil

5 Mentions
5 mentions
4 mentions
4 mentions
4 mentions
4 mentions

Not only is the ingredient list poor, it is gibberish. Ingredients mentioned over and over again, with no explanation. Where are the clarifying parentheses? They are not there, because they DON'T WANT you to figure it all out.

Note that the ingredient list is rendered in all capital letters, because it is well known that they are difficult to read. More obfuscation. 100% intentional.

What's the point?
The point is that most of the food you eat is manufactured for you by large corporations, whose motive is profit. They don't give a hoot about your health. Don't you think it is about time you READ THE LABEL? And perhaps do something about your reliance upon corporate foods. You KNOW what is bad. Why don't you avoid it?

Acquiescence. We are all guilty. The only thing that is going to protect you is YOUR DILIGENCE. Your government offers no help, because these matters are controlled by the food company lobbies. Money calls all the shots, and your health is not worth anything to these corporations. Just your money.

The clogging of your arteries, is outweighed by the fact that bakery goods can remain on the shelf for a month, and not spoil.

Awareness is just the first part of the health equation. Action is the second.

Notes

Vaughn's Law

"The healthfulness of any food product is inversely proportional to the number of ingredients listed on the label." . . . Me

Do you really want to eat this?

Consequences

Doctors tell us that the American diet is responsible for more disease than anything else - just which manufactured foods do you think that they are referring to?

1. High Blood Pressure - sodium, sodium, sodium
2. Arteriosclerosis - Clogged Arteries - TFAs are implicated, found in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils
3. Heart disease - CHF - Congestive Heart Failure
4. Diabetes
5. Obesity
6. Stroke

Yummy! Give me another slice, please.

EAFUS - Everything Added to Food in the United States

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