What You Don't Know About the Foods You Eat: Secret Ingredients!

Each day I research more and more into the foods we as Americans eat, and each day I find surprising information that I never knew, or more facts to back up my original ideas. I recently was involved in a discussion with co-workers about "Hidden Ingredients," or substances used in the creation of some of our most popular foods which most of us would never even guess would be found in them. Ingesting most of these "secret" ingredients may not necessarily be dangerous to the majority of our population, but not knowing about them even being there is, to me, even more dangerous. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The importance of understanding the way food is grown, harvested, processed, and packaged is one of the smartest things you can do to keep yourself healthy. And today, it has also become big business.

Companies spend billions of dollars designing foods, processing foods, and wrapping it all up in neat and attractive packages. But what's inside those colorful wrappers can be deceiving. We've already talked about how important it is to read the Nutrition Information Label on packaged foods in some of my earlier Blogs, but it's shocking to realize that even the ingredient lists don't always give you the full story on the chemicals, additives, and fillers that may be included in the food you eat.

For instance, McDonald's dips its french fries in sugar to give them that crispy, golden-brown appearance. Now, is that included in a list of ingredients plastered on the side of the fry box? Nope. It's strictly "eater beware!"

Here is more information that highlights the importance of knowing what we are eating. Click on the following link to read all about what they put in the food you put into you.

HowStuffWorks "10 Quirky Facts About Mass-produced Food"