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| jonovid:
green logic in labels food resources are limited, now there is less, thanks to you. or carbon dioxide is a problem, so why are you breathing. |
| TimFox:
--- Quote from: Ranayna on May 25, 2022, 07:38:43 am ---That was the same in the EU for a long time. Only recently the percentage of "prominent" ingredients has to be included. Your tuna salad would have to list the amount of tuna, for example. When looking at nutritional tables on US products, i find it ridiculous that the manufacturers are allowed to round down. Crap like that results in "sugarfree" Tic Tacs, that are actually 90% or more sugar. :palm: --- End quote --- The legal reason is that the sugar content of a single serving of one Tic Tac is slightly less than 0.5 g, and the regulation kicks in at 0.5 g. The footnote on the nutrition label states "less than .5g" for the "0g Sugars" line. However, the label does not state "sugar free": just "less than 2 calories per mint". Diabetics and others should look for a "sugar free" label. This is an example of why "sugar free", "gluten free", "lactose free" and other such labels are important. edited for punctuation typo |
| Bassman59:
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on May 24, 2022, 11:12:39 pm ---The wife bought into one of those diet programs where they provide the food. One day I idly looked at the can which contained tuna salad and the first ingredient on the the list was titanium dioxide. No wonder folks lose weight on such diets. --- End quote --- Titanium dioxide is a very common (likely the most common) pigment -- it's what makes white paint white. It's also used as a food coloring. |
| WA1ICI:
I've seen bottles of cheap vodka labeled "Gluten Free". That's probably because they came from the same factories that convert corn into the ethanol that gets added to our gasoline (up to 10%). ;D - John Atwood |
| CatalinaWOW:
--- Quote from: Bassman59 on May 25, 2022, 05:02:02 pm --- --- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on May 24, 2022, 11:12:39 pm ---The wife bought into one of those diet programs where they provide the food. One day I idly looked at the can which contained tuna salad and the first ingredient on the the list was titanium dioxide. No wonder folks lose weight on such diets. --- End quote --- Titanium dioxide is a very common (likely the most common) pigment -- it's what makes white paint white. It's also used as a food coloring. --- End quote --- I am aware of that. But wouldn't you be surprised to find rock dust as the prime ingredient in your cookies. Maybe in Haiti where the poor are known to eat mud cookies to stave off the hunger pangs of starvation. |
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