Not exact matches
Hello, my
name is Ana, I am from Portugal but now I live in France, after a few years
of living in Sweden and Denmark — and that is how I first heard about yout amazing blog, when I was
looking for websites with recipes with local and seasonal
ingredients to find out what to do with the strange vegetables I was getting in my weekly vegetable box!
When I am
looking for a recipe with a certain
ingredient I have at home, I only have to type the
name under «search» and tons
of recipes pop up.
But its
name is putting consumers — who are
looking for clean labels and suspicious
of «chemical - sounding»
ingredients — off, said Eva Hurt, VP regulatory and scientific affairs at Nestlé USA in comments to the FDA submitted January 9.
The outer packaging itself is clear, well labelled and offers a realistic display
of the listed
ingredients inside, it
looks very appealing and is a great way to teach kids to
name the items
of food they eat.
Look to avoid
ingredients with
names like FD&C Yellow 6, or DC Orange 17, or products that are bright blue or purple, as that's a tell - tale sign
of synthetic dyes.
To avoid accidentally consuming a lot
of sugar, it may be wise to
look out for the following
names of sugar in
ingredient lists:
Look for «no added sugar» on the products you buy and check the
ingredients list for any
of the
names below.
Look out for a wonderful selection
of recipes using
ingredients like pumpkin, sweet potatoes and butternut squash, to
name a few.
Look for foods that have several good sources
of animal protein as the first
ingredients such as whole meat proteins and
named meat meals.
And here's a table which gives you a
look at the brand
names of the most commonly used puppy worm medicines, with the active
ingredient / s listed.
It's also important to
look for generic or ambiguous - sounding
ingredients: «animal fat» and «meat meal» are generic because they do not
name a specific animal and could be
of questionable quality.
If you
look at the
ingredients of SPORTMiX ® Wholesomes line, the first
ingredient is a
named meat meal, but the next three are, Brown Rice, Rice Flour, and Rice Bran.
Instead, it's better to
look for a dog food that has couple
of good meat sources
of protein in the first five
ingredients, along with a
named fat source.
Look for the first source
of fat
named on the label, to determine the main
ingredients.
If you don't recognize the
name of an
ingredient, or it sounds artificial,
look it up so that you know what you're putting on your pup.
A «common or usual
name» may be very obvious when
looking at such
ingredients like «lamb» or «ground corn», but won't be common or usual for the average consumer, who has never read the definition
of ingredients like «hydrolyzed chicken protein», «digest
of poultry byproducts» or «corn distillers grains with solubles».
Watch out: A good rule
of thumb to distinguish the major components
of a food is to
look for the first
named source
of fat in the
ingredient list.
But in following AAFCO (Association
of American Feed Control Officials) terminology for
ingredient names, these sources may
look the same on the
ingredients list.»
In the bread aisle, two loaves
of bread may
look nearly identical in form, but to the discerning consumer, their ancillary texts reveal two distinct products in support
of vastly differing production methods, political economies, and consequences: one
ingredients list reads «flour, water, yeast, salt» while the other lists fourteen
ingredients, more than half
of which are
names of chemical compounds.