Packaged foods a HUGE HAZARD

[Barbara]

I hope ALL readers who tend to eat manufactured foods and drinks, even popular soda beverages which SEEM better being non-colas,
will take a look here and give them up forever after!

Both for themselves and for their families :

"You might also be upset to hear that the food coloring used to make your kid's delicious Mac & Cheese dinner visually appealing - yellow #5 and yellow #6, namely - is made from coal tar, which among other things is an active ingredient in lice shampoo and has been linked to allergies, ADHD, and cancer in animals."

http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/80-pr ... 00604.html

[Maria]

The most popular packaged food among children and infants is Cherrios and it has changed for the better although General Mills insists that no changes were made.

Read this Press Release by General Mills. An excerpt follows:

• Did we change Cheerios?

  No. Not really.

  Original Cheerios has always been made with whole grain oats, and there are no GMO oats. We do use a small amount of corn starch in cooking, and just one gram of sugar per serving for taste. And now that corn starch comes only from non-GM corn, and our sugar is only non-GM pure cane sugar.

http://www.blog.generalmills.com/2014/0 ... -cheerios/

[Barbara]

That's remarkable to get some good news from a cereal manufacturer like that !

I grew up eating Cheerios, so I am glad to keep cheering it on into the future decades.
I am glad to know, even so many years later, that Cheerios was made with
the whole-grain oats !
Maybe it wasn't as unhealthy as I later thought it may have been.

I have a feeling it doesn't taste the same as it did then, though.
Anyone tried Cheerios recently by chance ?

[Maria]

That's remarkable to get some good news from a cereal manufacturer like that !

I grew up eating Cheerios, so I am glad to keep cheering it on into the future decades.
I am glad to know, even so many years later, that Cheerios was made with
the whole-grain oats !
Maybe it wasn't as unhealthy as I later thought it may have been.

I have a feeling it doesn't taste the same as it did then, though.
Anyone tried Cheerios recently by chance ?

Since Cheerios uses whole oats, but does not specify "organically grown whole oats," there could be the danger that there might be mercury in those oats. I read somewhere that the packaged breakfast foods from Quaker Oats (commonly used breakfast food) is not only not organic, but also contains traces of mercury. Therefore, my husband has switched to Trader Joe's Organic Oats, and he says the flavor is much better.