Fake Ingredients In Popular Foods

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Anyone who is trying to lose weight and be healthier should stay away from highly processed and chemical laden foods. How can you do that if fake ingredients are in the so called healthy foods. Some fruit juices labeled 100% juice may not be after all. Read this article from the ABC news website (which is also an article Alyssa Milano tweeted to her followers)..............

Among the most popular targets for unscrupulous food suppliers? Pomegranate juice, which is often diluted with grape or pear juice.

"Pomegranate juice is a high-value ingredient and a high-priced ingredient, and adulteration appears to be widespread," Lipp said. "It can be adulterated with other food juices…additional sugar, or just water and sugar."

Lipp added that there have also been reports of completely "synthetic pomegranate juice" that didn't contain any traces of the real juice.

USP tells ABC News that liquids and ground foods in general are the easiest to tamper with: Olive oil: often diluted with cheaper oils Lemon juice: cheapened with water and sugar Tea: diluted with fillers like lawn grass or fern leaves Spices: like paprika or saffron adulterated with dangerous food colorings that mimic the colors

Milk, honey, coffee and syrup are also listed by the USP as being highly adulterated products.

Also high on the list: seafood. The number one fake being escolar, an oily fish that can cause stomach problems, being mislabeled as white tuna or albacore, frequently found on sushi menus.

National Consumers League did its own testing on lemon juice just this past year and found four different products labeled 100 percent lemon juice were far from pure.

"One had 10 percent lemon juice, it said it had 100 percent, another had 15 percent lemon juice, another...had 25 percent, and the last one had 35 percent lemon juice," Sally Greenberg, Executive Director for the National Consumers League said. "And they were all labeled 100 percent lemon juice."  Read of this news story here

All I can say is beware of what you buy and put in your bodies. This is one of the top reasons in my opinion why people have a hard time losing weight and being healthy.