Carrot Cake Ingredients - Manufactured Food

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Carrot Cake Ingredients
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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?

Safeway Carrot Cake slice photo

About 50 cents per oz.

VERY DIFFICULT to read - ALL CAPS, no spaces after commas. (List of 95 Ingredients) The "Pack Date" is NOT GIVEN (just how dried out is it?). You CANNOT determine how long it has been on the shelf. The weight is NOT GIVEN - just "1 count". ("We will give you some product, but we won't say how much!") No nutritional information is provided - how do they bypass this? Carrot Cake Ingredients List
Item	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	artificial emulsifiers (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	hidden MSG	60
corn starch, water	OK, I guess	61-62
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	artificial emulsifiers (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	artificial emulsifiers (4) There are monoglycerides. There are diglycerides. There is no such thing as "mono diglycerides".	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	artificial emulsifiers (5) There are monoglycerides. There are diglycerides. There is no such thing as "mono diglycerides".	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? Just what "might be" in it? UNACCEPTABLE!	90-95
Contains: Wheat, eggs, soy, milk, and walnuts.

. Summary of Worst Ingredients
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
What Is The Record Number of Ingredients in A Manufactured Food?	It was 95 in Safeway "Carrot Cake". It is now 113 in Safeway "Chocolate Cake".
	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

. What Are the Alternatives? How About REAL Food from A Bakery?
Just Desserts Bakery - Carrot Cake		. Black China Bakery - Carrot Cake

READABLE - NOT ALL CAPS, spaces after the commas. The "Pack Date" IS GIVEN to determine freshness. You CAN determine how long it has been on the shelf. The weight IS GIVEN - you know how much you get. Yes, it costs a little more without the crap - about 65 cents per oz.		READABLE - NOT ALL CAPS, spaces after the commas. The "Pack Date" IS GIVEN to determine freshness. You CAN determine how long it has been on the shelf. The weight IS GIVEN - you know how much you get. Yes, it costs a little more without the crap - about 63 cents per oz.
Carrot Cake Ingredients List		. Carrot Cake Ingredients List
Item	Item	Item	Item
sugar	leavening (baking soda?)	unbleached flour	coconut
cream cheese	salt	carrots	walnuts
carrots	spices	organic silken tofu	pistachios
unbleached flour	lecithin	sugar	vanilla
eggs	guar gum	brown sugar	baking soda
canola oil	xanthan gum	canola oil	spices
walnuts	annatto oil	pineapple	salt
butter	spinach powder	soy milk	lemon
vanilla	-	organic non-hydrogenated palm oil shortening	-
Only 17 ingredients Would you rather eat this cake, or the "Manufactured" chemical version with 95 ingredients? (78 extra ingredients - over 4.5 times as many)		Only 17 ingredients Would you rather eat this cake, or the "Manufactured" chemical version with 95 ingredients? (78 extra ingredients - over 4.5 times as many)

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This Vaughns Carrot Cake Summary webpage was last updated on 2012-02-13.