It’s been my goal to find out things about food and write about it so other people who may not have the time to find out those things can also have that information. I’m not a nutritionist or a doctor, so, while I have strong opinions, I firmly believe that as long as we are…
Although I’m usually against food products specifically geared towards kids, I have to admit I was lured in by Bitsy’s Brain Food. The fun packaging and interesting veggie-and-fruit flavors (lemon-broccoli, orange-chocolate-beet, sweet potato-oatmeal-raisin, and zucchini-gingerbread-carrot) were intriguing. First Impressions We received the sweet potato oatmeal raisin flavor to try out. The box is small (2.125…
RECENTLY, KRAFT FOODS SENT ME FREE PRODUCT SAMPLES and a gift card to conduct a taste test of a new milk and granola bar. I can only hope Kraft did it’s due diligence and discovered my feelings on most processed foods before deciding to contact me… Anyway, here’s how the test unfolded in my kitchen.…
AFTER READING BRUCE BRADLEY’S POST ABOUT tricks of the food industry trade, I promptly freaked out over the fact that I’d been eating calf stomach – rennet – in my cheese. After maniacally checking the labels of all the cheese in the house, I calmed down enough to turn to my best defense when I’m…
LAST WEEK CTF READER NICK SENT me an email asking I was wondering what you guys think of Canola Oil. From what I’ve read, it is a genetically engineered oil that comes from the rapeseed. If by canola is by definition genetically engineered, how can some products claim to have “organic canola oil”? Do you…
I DETEST KIDS FOODS — at least on a regular basis. Everyone likes to buy something special sometimes, but kids foods shouldn’t be an every day or every meal occurrence. Why? Because kids foods prevent kids from eating and enjoying regular food give kids the idea that they need special food cost more are often…
A FEW DAYS AGO, A CTF FACEBOOK FOLLOWER ASKED A REALLY GOOD QUESTION: WHAT IS A REALLY GOOD PRETZEL? Well, I don’t have the answer to that. But I can explain how I choose a pretzel and share what brands I buy. It is hard to find a good pretzel. There are a lot of…
Most people don’t want to think too much about where their meat comes from beyond the meat department in the grocery store. As a society, we spend a lot of time anthropomorphizing animals, which makes it hard to think about slaughtering and eating them. Who among us would eat Wilbur from Charlotte’s Web or the…
WHEN READER MARC WONDERED ON THE CTF FACEBOOK PAGE about how honey could be organic, it made me curious: Can honey really be organic when bees are flying all over the place encountering who knows what kind of flowers and water sources? The National Honey Board defines organic honey as: Honey produced, processed, and packaged…
If you’ve read about recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) and want to avoid it in your kids’ diets, here is some information about companies and brands without milk from cows given rBGH. The good think is many products are now labeled as rBGH-free. For example, Polly-O string cheese in the smaller size is labeled rBGH-free…
What is rBGH Since 1937, the dairy industry has known that the growth hormone bovine somatotropin (BGH) increases milk production in cows. Somatotropin increases milk supply by increasing the circulation of another hormone: insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1). Up until the 1980’s, this hormone was used on a very limited basis and its source was bovine…
THE RECENT EGG RECALL WAS MASSIVE – A HALF A BILLION EGGS. The eggs were recalled because of salmonella. Here is some of the information I discovered in reading about the recall and salmonella. All chicken and eggs have the potential to be tainted with salmonella, regardless of how they are raised or fed. Conventional, cage-free,…
I WASN’T EATING A LOT OF BEEF ANYWAY, but after reading Fast Food Nation, I stopped eating beef altogether. Then, a few years later, I read The Omnivore’s Dilemma. It put a light at the end of the beefless tunnel by describing Joel Salatin’s grass farming methods at Polyface Farms. At the time, I couldn’t…
LIKE MOST SHOPPERS, I PREFER TO BUY ORGANIC PRODUCE when I can. But, also like most shoppers, I have to make choices based on budgetary concerns. The answer: the Dirty Dozen/Clean 15 list which is based on data from the Environmental Working Group on pesticide residue. These lists make it easy to select foods with…
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