Tag: Food Risk Score

Spooky Lofthouse Cookie

Spooky Lofthouse Cookie

[ 1 ] October 22, 2011 |

No stated value While I don’t mind if Halloween baked goods are designed to look scary, the scary food additives are certainly not what we want. Recently I have reviewed “Back To School” Lofthouse cookies. Here is another example of almost exactly the same poor nutrition and high health risk product. Suspiciously, there is no […]

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Why Do We Need Food Day

Why Do We Need Food Day

[ 0 ] October 19, 2011 |

Food Life needs food. We need food to rebuild some 7 million (out of the total 25 trillion) of red blood cells our body loses every second and hence, yes, “we are what we eat.” But you cannot build living cells from whatever is available or even affordable. To survive we must eat nutritious food, […]

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Pretzel Twists: A better food choice

Pretzel Twists: A better food choice

[ 0 ] October 16, 2011 |

Here is Great Value Honey Wheat Braided Pretzel Twists for $1.48 a bag you can buy at a local Walmart. No trans fat, no artificial flavors or colors. Accordingly, the pretzels risk diagram looks more like green that means it is safe to eat the product in moderation. DyeDiet RECOMMENDED With every serving of 10 […]

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Fun Pops: Another Fruit Fraud

Fun Pops: Another Fruit Fraud

[ 12 ] October 9, 2011 |

No, people, this is NOT a fun at all. I thought Kool-Aid  was the only worst fake fruit beverage on the market. Well, if I was the manufacturer of the Fun Pops I couldn’t sleep at nights bothering by the thoughts of what adverse health effects my beverage might produce on American public, especially on children, the […]

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FUZE to confuse

FUZE to confuse

[ 1 ] October 5, 2011 |

Recently I have recommended FUZE Mixed Berry, a naturally flavored and naturally colored beverage from FUZE Beverage, LLC. My initial assumption was that FUZE is committed to offer Americans healthy drinks containing neither artificial colors nor other questionable food additives. Not quite so. When I took another look at the beverage line I have got […]

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What to choose for trick-or-treat?

What to choose for trick-or-treat?

[ 4 ] October 2, 2011 |

While Halloween it still a few weeks away Walmart grocery is already pumpkin-decorated and you may walk by two aisles overloaded with orange boxes full of all possible candies. However, not all of them are equally safe for your children and the children of your neighborhood. What to choose for trick-or-treat to make sure that […]

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Red Velvet Fake

Red Velvet Fake

[ 2 ] September 28, 2011 |

The DyeDiet goal is not to scare you, people. The goal is to inform you about the truth behind commercial statements designed to trick you into buying the products of poor nutritional value. Sometimes truth may look scary but we have to face it in order to make right decisions. Please keep in mind that […]

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Walmart PecanTarts

Walmart PecanTarts

[ 0 ] September 25, 2011 |

This is one of the few products of the Bakery at Walmart which contains no artificial colorants. The tarts made in Canada are safe to eat with the only foreign food additive, an artificial flavor, which is a chemical kept as a commercial secret. Anyway, with its low foreign food additive risk of only DDFI = […]

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Sausage may give you a stroke

Sausage may give you a stroke

[ 0 ] September 22, 2011 |

Schwab’s Finest Hot Links is an extra hot sausage produced in Oklahoma since 1912.  If you take magnifying glass you can read on the package: Artificially colored, Hickory Smoked, Fully Cooked. It also said: US inspected and passed by Department of Agriculture. And, finally, on the back you see “Allergen free”.  Wait a minute, what […]

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Fuze Mixed Berry: Go Green!

Fuze Mixed Berry: Go Green!

[ 0 ] September 18, 2011 |

Looks like at least some US manufacturers start to respond to growing consumer’s demand for healthy food and beverages. This may well be the result of increasing awareness of the American public of potentially harmful health effects that artificial coloring (see CSPI document Food Dyes: A Rainbow of Risks) and other questionable food additives may cause. Recently […]

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