Grocery Label Ingredients and What They Mean

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Grocery labels can be deceiving and confusing. This is an explanation of the most commonly used ingredients.

When we read the ingredient list on packaged foods, we take it for granted that ingredients with names like Dry Milk Solids, Spice or Citric Acid are harmless because they are names we are familiar with. Other ingredients are unfamiliar but it is easy to overlook them if we see them often enough.

Below is a list of the most common ingredients found on grocery food ingredient lists and the meaning of words used to describe them.

Fresh: When a food is referred to as fresh, this means that the food is raw, preservative free, and has never been cooked or frozen.

Healthy: Healthy foods must contain vitamin A or C protein or fiber, calcium, iron, low amounts of cholesterol, be low in fats.....more
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