How Food Labels Trick You into a Purchase
When you grocery shop do you find labels that tout “Natural Goodness, Kid Approved, Parent Tested, or Doctor Recommended” leading you to believe that the product is a good choice? Marketers avoid regulation on front of package labels and rely on consumers trust in a name brand product by labeling with misleading phrases.
How often do you go further in your investigation of what’s inside the package? Do you stop at the front of the package or do you turn it to the side and read the nutrition facts and ingredients list? How can we be sure that what we are feeding our families is actually a good choice nutritionally?
For more information The New York Times Well Blog discusses meaningless claims on food labels, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest published a detailed report.
I am so confused because my brother just lost over 80 pounds with his own healthy eating lifestyle and help another one of my brother loss over 80 pounds and now I am just starting but down a few sizes. My problem is that Deirbergs in my town has a rotisserie chicken that say Natural flavoring but yet it has 680 ml of sodium per 4 oz. and that is NOT Natural. They have told both my brother and I that O it has not salt added but find out that we were misinformed. Food Inc where are you? I am just a want a be student right now . . . My brother Michael is the person in my town responsible for Whole Foods having a PLAIN chicken without the salt injection and think he should be comented. Why is it such a fight to eat healthy? What can we do about this misinformation and stop this for the people who want to eat healthy>???
I know exactly what you are talking about. Companies use tricky words all the time to trick you into buying their unhealthy products buy pretending like they are healthy.
Some products say: “Doctor Recommended”… yeah, right, what kind of doctor… a bastard that only cares about getting paid or a real Natural Doctor that really cares about your health.