Comments on: Lies In Your Food: Made With REAL Blueberries? But I Thought…

By: AnaDion

AnaDion — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:45:15 +0000

I thought that I was the only one who was like “um… what?” when commercials and labels started boasting about things being made of “real fruit” and “100% chicken” like it was something to be proud of: something exceptional.
Well dang, if it says “FRUIT” or “CHICKEN” or whatever else, we SHOULD be able to presume that its “real”. That should be the default.
@.@
Craziness

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:45:05 +0000

didn’t Mc Donalds started saying that they are using real chicken breast in their chicken nuggets several years back. I remember all us moms saying ” wait if it wasn’t real chicken what was it?!?!and I am feeding that to my kids thinking that it was real chicken!!!” I don’t know about everyone else but since the start of this year when i stopped buying processed foods it seems all food is fake except for the stuff you buy for the produce isle and butcher.

But Wait, Erika, have you talked about how our ground beef is not from local farms and that our meet is mixed with meat from all over the world? Also some places recycle ground beef? Recycle I mean they take the ground beef that is about to expire and mix it with fresh ground beef.

Granted what I am saying is hearsay since I do not remember the article I read or news report I saw this information in. But the memory of why I try to stay away from ground beef is fresh. My home turned into a chicken and whole cuts of beef home. Eventually we limited our beef intake to about 3 or 4 times a month.

just some food for thought I thought I would share

By: Yasmeen

Yasmeen — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:43:23 +0000

I love this article! Thank you for increasing awareness. In turn, I shared it with a few of my fellow nursing students.

PEACE MY SISTER!

By: Dre'Chelle

Dre'Chelle — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:44:05 +0000

I’ve been hoodwinked!

By: Kris @Krazy_Kris

Kris @Krazy_Kris — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:54:46 +0000

Great post! Yes, indeed, what has it come to when we label something as “real blueberry”? My shift from packaged & processed foods has been difficult – especially since I didn’t cook LOL.

I still don’t really cook – rather assemble ingredients that I like. And I’ve learned that I like a lot of healthy things! Thanks to my friend Michele who says, “Go to farmer’s market, tell me what you bought, and I’ll coach you on how to prepare it.” How’s that for a method? No recipe? No planning? Preparing food based on available, whole ingredients?

It’s been a real eye-opener, for sure. Roasting squash, cooking quinoa, sauteing apples & walnuts – who would have thought?

Thanks again!

By: Cryssy

Cryssy — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:29:15 +0000

well damn! once again thanks for the information

By: THE DARK KNIGHT

THE DARK KNIGHT — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:03:20 +0000

The consumer is nothing but a lab rat man. I’m laughing avec this post because of an incident that happened at the job recently. For some reason the people there compare their eating habits to my own. Why? I have no idea. Well someone bought a trough of blueberry bagels from Panera Bread. In the mornings I either eat oatmeal or a whole grain bagel. As I was warming my bagel a coworker walked up to me and said “My bagel tastes better and is better for you because it gives you antioxidants (she pronounced it wrong but I corrected her). I set her straight by explaining how I could get that from the grapes I planned to eat. She scoffed at me of course and walked away like a scolded dog. I did go back to stare at one of the blueberry bagels and got sick to my stomach. It looked like a bagel with scabs on it. I couldn’t believe the blueberries were real. I’m going to print this out and sit it on her desk. Bwahaha!!