Warning Beware of Natural Flavors!

Look Ma…. Triscuits is baked and has whole wheat. Wow it even has a Rosemary and Olive Oil flavor but what is that on the box??? Hmmm… it says that Triscuits has Natural Flavor with Other Natural Flavor… Ohhhh… it has that MSG stuff in it…

Is this stuff really food?

Or is this cracker a potentially harmful chemical stew sent out from a highly efficient and cost effective assembly line to make profitable snacks with a long shelf life? Yummy stuff for America and the world to consume?

I already wrote a detailed piece on Natural Flavorings (they might just be killing you!) at my other blog – but this picture is one I just have to share!

Hey – do you think that all the healthy stuff on the Triscuits label makes their stuff wholesome and healthy for humans?

Ever since I found out that “natural flavors” is an FDA approved way to list MSG Monosodium Glutamate as ingredients in products I am super paranoid!

Now that I know that I see it everywhere I look! Sure – MSG may be natural – so is yeast – but it doesn’t mean it’s good for you or ideal to consume as a staple in your diet.

Now that I know about trans fats and MSG and contaminated grains like corn and wheat and such – it’s hard for me to indulge in eating snacks the way I used to do.

It was funny the other night when Mr. Steven Colbert lifted up a box of the stuff and pointed out the NATURAL FLAVOR WITH OTHER NATURAL FLAVORS label.

I’m not sure he fully knows about the MSG thing – but he did mock it.

I have to say I have bought a hell of a lot of boxes of Triscuits crackers in my time. I used to think they were a healthy snack. I had no idea they had trans fats or anything else in them that could be harming me.

We are all finally learning more about the dangers of overly processed foods from the mega corpoartions like Nabisco and others who use chemicals and super processed lab created ingredients. This is stuff that Grandma would not recognize as food – it’s crazy but as Americans get fatter and the corporations get richer we still allow the passing off of fake food as nutritious and healthy.

I can’t say for sure that Trisucits is harmful or bad for you – but I can say that looking at the ingredients I do not feel good about eating that stuff.

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