Diverse
whole food ingredient lists that avoid the worst (and unpalatable) cheap fillers: Corn, wheat and soy.
Not exact matches
Well, the
ingredients list is
whole foods, not stabilizers and other
ingredients keeping that other pudding on the shelf for... years?
Choose
foods that name a
whole - grain
ingredient first on the
ingredient list.
Read the
ingredient list on all
food packages and look for the word «
whole» before any grain named first in the
list.
Teach older children to read the
ingredient list on cereals or snack
food packages and choose those with
whole grains at the top of the
list.
Choose
foods that name one of the following
whole - grain
ingredients first on the label's
ingredient list:
The move toward healthier
foods is also driven by large retailers such as
Whole Foods, which refuses to sell any product made from items on its
list of unacceptable
ingredients.
The
ingredient list is awesome:) im focusing i. Eating
whole unprocessed
food so this is great!
What a great
whole -
foods ingredient list!
Don't rely on the color of a
food to determine whether it's a
whole grain — look for
ingredients like
whole wheat, brown rice, buckwheat, or oatmeal, to be
listed first on the label.
If you must eat those bars, choose the ones with fruits, nuts and
whole grain — real
foods — high up on the
ingredient list.
Check out the Andi Guide from
Whole Foods Market ® when making decisions on which
foods get on your weekly juicing
list and become high value targets for bottled juice
ingredients.
You can use any type of plant protein you want in this smoothie, but I always suggest reading the
ingredient list on whatever one you choose to make sure the
ingredients are made from
whole foods, not synthetic vitamins and minerals, refined sugar, added oils, and chemicals you don't recognize.
Pollen urges us to stick to
foods that resemble something we might encounter in nature: eat
foods our grandmothers would recognize; purchase
foods that come from a plant, not
foods that are made in one; and to stick to
whole foods or packaged
foods with five
listed ingredients or less.
To start with, I always recommend including fresh,
whole foods (organic and local where possible) and avoiding anything processed (from a packet or a bottle — essentially, anything with an
ingredient list).
Simple and nutritious,
ingredients list to a total of five to eight
whole foods.
Hence, seeing the term «date sugar» in the
ingredients list of a processed
food does not guarantee the presence of a
whole sugar.
What you'll notice from the
list above is that you can easily avoid these
ingredients if you buy organic and stick to unprocessed,
whole foods.
Examination of the
ingredients for many brands seems harmless enough with just a few
whole foods listed.
Nutritious
whole - grain
foods should
list a
whole grain as the first or second
ingredient, after water.
So that's the short
list on the
ingredients used in many
whole food recipe that I'll introduce to you.
Even if the packaging says «100 %
whole grain» and the coloring is dark, the
ingredient list will often contain sugar or
food coloring.
All oil - free (a couple of recipes use nonstick spray, but no oil is an actual
listed ingredient, only
whole food fats like nuts / seeds / avocado)
So Sweet... I'm excited to start cooking down your recipe
list one
whole food ingredient at a time!
When cruciferous / goitrogenous vegetables are
listed as
ingredients in supplements (i.e., particularly «
whole food» suppplements») are they ok to take?
In some cases, the GI values for different varieties of the same type of
food listed in the table indicate the glycemic - lowering effects of different
ingredients and
food processing methods (eg, porridges made from rolled grains of different thicknesses and breads with different proportions of
whole grains).
Also, the brand that I found at my local
whole foods market has the following
listed in the
ingredients: Grade A Pasteurized
whole goat milk, tapioca starch, pectin and (S. Thermophilus, L. Bulgaricus, L. Acidophilus & Bifidus.)
In many
whole grain
foods, a
whole grain is among the first
ingredients listed.
Here's a simple way to start a
food product assessment: Read the
whole ingredient list, and take note of whether you actually know what each
ingredient is.
It seems to be the best way to get more vegan protein as it is a
whole food and the
ingredient list is often just hemp, are there any compounds or contaminants in hemp that when taken in high amounts are associated with negative effects?
Foods made with several different
whole grains noted further down on the
list of
ingredients may also qualify as a
whole grain
food.
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.
Focus on increasing the amount of
whole, real
food in your diet, learning to cook more meals for yourself, and reducing your consumption of processed
food with long
lists of
ingredients that are not real
food.
Eat
foods with very few
ingredients, all pronounceable
ingredients, or better yet, no
ingredients listed at all because they're
whole and unprocessed.
One thing worth mentioning in regard to the other
ingredients on the
list for Nutro Natural Choice Sensitive Skin and Stomach Adult Venison Meal and
Whole Brown Rice Adult Dog
Food is the fact that probiotics are not
listed.
«I stress to my clients to look for
foods whose
ingredient list includes at least two out of three of the first
ingredients listed as either
whole meat or meat meals, and NOT meat by - products or processed parts of indigestible grains,» explains Dr. Dym.
Rice Bran — The fifth
ingredient in the
list for Nutro Natural Choice Sensitive Skin and Stomach Adult Venison Meal and
Whole Brown Rice Adult Dog
Food is rice bran — the third rice product on the
ingredient list (out of 5, thus far).
Whole Fruits and Vegetables — Some of the higher quality dry dog
foods list vegetable and fruits in their
ingredient list.
How to grade your dog's
food: Start with a grade of 100: 1) For every
listing of «by - product», subtract 10 points 2) For every non-specific animal source -LRB-» meat» or «poultry», meat, meal or fat) reference, subtract 10 points 3) If the
food contains BHA, BHT, or ethoxyquin, subtract 10 points 4) For every grain «mill run» or non-specific grain source, subtract 5 points 5) If the same grain
ingredient is used 2 or more times in the first five
ingredients (I.e. «ground brown rice», «brewers rice», «rice flour» are all the same grain), subtract 5 points 6) If the protein sources are not meat meal and there are less than 2 meats in the top 3
ingredients, subtract 3 points 7) If it contains any artificial colorants, subtract 3 points 8) If it contains ground corn or
whole grain corn, subtract 3points 9) If corn is
listed in the top 5
ingredients, subtract 2 more points 10) If the
food contains any animal fat other than fish oil, subtract 2 points 11) If lamb is the only animal protein source (unless your dog is allergic to other protein sources), subtract 2 points 12) If it contains soy or soybeans, subtract 2 points 13) If it contains wheat (unless you know that your dog is not allergic to wheat), subtract 2 points 14) If it contains beef (unless you know that your dog is not allergic to beef), subtract 1 point 15) If it contains salt, subtract 1 point
PureBites prides itself in a short
ingredient list featuring only minimally processed,
whole foods.
Because protein is such a major component of your pup's diet, look for
food that
lists a high - quality protein such as
whole chicken, fish, venison, beef, lamb, eggs or turkey as the primary
ingredient.
Look for
foods with a
whole meat
listed as the primary
ingredient.
I've recently seen a really nice
food with some organic fruits and vegetables, «human grade» meats, a nice oil blend (olive, salmon and evening primrose) and many other appealing
ingredients, but when I looked at the
ingredient list closely, I saw that salt ranked higher on the
list than eggs, yeast supplement and any of the fruits and veggies (
listed: fresh
whole garlic, fresh
whole sweet peas, fresh
whole sweet potatoes, fresh
whole carrots, fresh
whole green apples)- that is pretty scary.
Of course,
whole chicken contains a lot of water before processing so once the chicken is cooked, this
ingredient will not be the most plentiful in the
food, but it's still nice to see it
listed prominently.
Whole Earth Farms dogs
food are indeed rare gems, as they come with
ingredients list streamlined to exclude corn, wheat, soy, artificial colors and artificial preservatives, with competitive prices.
The first 15
ingredients listed on this
food are: Boneless chicken, chicken meal, chicken liver,
whole herring, boneless turkey, turkey meal, turkey liver,
whole eggs, boneless walleye,
whole salmon, chicken heart, chicken cartilage, herring meal, salmon meal, and chicken liver oil.
High - quality dog
foods may also have complex carbohydrates like
whole - grain oats or brown rice
listed within the top five
ingredients as well as an animal - based fat like chicken fat or fish oil.
I'm sure it applies to cat
food as well: How to grade your dog's
food: Start with a grade of 100: 1) For every
listing of «by - product», subtract 10 points 2) For every non-specific animal source -LRB-» meat» or «poultry», meat, meal or fat) reference, subtract 10 points 3) If the
food contains BHA, BHT, or ethoxyquin, subtract 10 points 4) For every grain «mill run» or non-specific grain source, subtract 5 points 5) If the same grain
ingredient is used 2 or more times in the first five
ingredients (i.e. «ground brown rice», «brewerâ $ ™ s rice», «rice flour» are all the same grain), subtract 5 points 6) If the protein sources are not meat meal and there are less than 2 meats in the top 3
ingredients, subtract 3 points 7) If it contains any artificial colorants, subtract 3 points 8) If it contains ground corn or
whole grain corn, subtract 3 points 9) If corn is
listed in the top 5
ingredients, subtract 2 more points 10) If the
food contains any animal fat other than fish oil, subtract 2 points 11) If lamb is the only animal protein source (unless your dog is allergic to other protein sources), subtract 2 points 12) If it contains soy or soybeans, subtract 2 points 13) If it contains wheat (unless you know that your dog is not allergic to wheat), subtract 2 points 14) If it contains beef (unless you know that your dog is not allergic to beef), subtract 1 point 15) If it contains salt, subtract 1 point Extra Credit: 1) If any of the meat sources are organic, add 5 points 2) If the
food is endorsed by any major breed group or nutritionist, add 5 points 3) If the
food is baked not extruded, add 5 points 4) If the
food contains probiotics, add 3 points 5) If the
food contains fruit, add 3 points 6) If the
food contains vegetables (NOT corn or other grains), add 3 points 7) If the animal sources are hormone - free and antibiotic - free, add 2 points 8) If the
food contains barley, add 2 points 9) If the
food contains flax seed oil (not just the seeds), add 2 points 10) If the
food contains oats or oatmeal, add 1 point 11) If the
food contains sunflower oil, add 1 point 12) For every different specific animal protein source (other than the first one; count «chicken» and «chicken meal» as only one protein source, but «chicken» and «'' as 2 different sources), add 1 point 13) If it contains glucosamine and chondroitin, add 1 point 14) If the vegetables have been tested for pesticides and are pesticide - free, add 1 point
A high - quality dry dog
food will
list a
whole source of protein or a meat meal (from named sources) first on the
ingredients list and it is a good thing if more than one protein source shows up within the first five
ingredients.
While this product does have a
whole source of animal protein
listed first on the
ingredients list, it is only one of two animal - based protein sources and it is a common
food allergen.