Search for foods that contain
few ingredients on their labels - and if you come across any ingredient that you are not able to read or pronounce then there's point in consuming such food.
Oats, protein, apple and peanut butter were some of the first
few ingredients on the label.
Look for foods that have
the fewest ingredients on the label — if you can't pronounce it, it's probably not something you want to be putting in your body.
Because manufacturers list ingredients in pet food in order of decreasing weight, the first
few ingredients on the label are the most important when analyzing nutritional value.
Not exact matches
The latter gave the soup company a chance to hop
on other consumer trends, like snacks with
fewer ingredients and clearer
labels.
«Clean
label is very hot right now — only a
few ingredients and the consumer has heard of everything
on the
label.
It contains
fewer than ten
ingredients and they're all healthy and easily recognizable
on the
label.
I know — I read the
labels on a
few bottle of salad dressing in preparation of this post and there were all sorts of
ingredients I had no idea what they were.
I also get worried when there are a tonne of
ingredients on labels that I've never heard of / can't pronounce but from the research I've done, quite a
few of the more scientific names aren't actually chemicals, just the scientific names for regular, naturally occurring
ingredients.
Today, there remain only a
few Stouffer's varieties that still declare TFAs
on the
label; we think it's important to note that those TFAs are naturally occurring from either the beef or dairy
ingredients in those recipes.
I had to look up quite a
few of the
ingredients on the
label because I didn't recognize them as food grade items.
Look for products that say «live and active cultures»
on the
label, and be careful when it comes to fruit - infused flavors: Some are loaded with sugar, which can feed bad bugs, so be sure to check the
ingredients and aim for
fewer than 15 grams per serving.
If you're shopping for an oil cleanser at your local beauty store, make sure that water is not
on the
label and that the first
few ingredients are oils.
The objective of this basic review is to give a rundown of a
few popular supplements - no brand names will be mentioned, but these
ingredients are easy to find
on the
labels.
Unfortunately, the fact that these foods only have a
few ingredients listed
on the
label is very misleading.
This is one of those products that it's especially important to read the
ingredients label on (although it's really important to read the
ingredients on every product), as I've seen some sriracha that had quite a
few additives.
When buying packaged foods, check food
labels for the word «whole» in front of the word «grain» and make sure that corn syrup or one of the other simple carbohydrates listed above doesn't appear among the first
few ingredients on the list.
There were four studies done a
few years ago that showed 80 percent of «limited
ingredient» kibbles (prescription and over-the-counter) were contaminated with proteins that were not listed
on the
label.
The first
few ingredients shown
on the
label will be what the bulk of the food will be made up of, so should feature meat or fish first.
If you see any of these
on an
ingredients label, take a
few minutes for action.