Category: Canned food

Your guide to buying pickles: Yellow 5 content

Your guide to buying pickles: Yellow 5 content

[ 3 ] April 1, 2013 |

Recent public petition to Kraft Foods to remove Yellow 5 and Yellow 6 artificial colorants from the popular Macaroni & Cheese which has gained support of more than 277 thousand consumers ended up with nothing: Kraft Acknowledged Petition But Didn’t Address Concerns. The question is: Does it make any sense to petition about every single […]

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Delicious Bavarian Style Sauerkraut and the Recipe

Delicious Bavarian Style Sauerkraut and the Recipe

[ 0 ] November 7, 2012 |

Canned food is not what comes in mind when one thinks of a healthy meal. I agree. But every rule has its exceptions. Here is one: Libby’s Bavarian Style Sauerkraut with caraway seeds for $0.75 a can of almost half a kilo. Indeed, not only this canned food is relatively healthy, it is also: Delicious […]

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Real Deal Pickles

Real Deal Pickles

[ 0 ] December 8, 2011 |

Pickles are good addition to salads, sandwiches, relishes, soups and other kinds of foods we enjoy. Surprisingly, it is hard to find pickles which do not denatured by addition of needless and potentially harmful chemicals such as preservatives, artificial colorants and surfactants. For instance, previously reviewed Mt. Olive Kosher Dill pickles do contain sodium benzoate […]

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Pickles: artificial color content

Pickles: artificial color content

[ 3 ] July 13, 2011 |

Mt. Olive Pickle Company’s Sandwich Stuffers; Kosher Dill. Let’s see what is inside. There is no dill weed added to these yellow pickles. No dill – No deal! See below why. DyeDiet DOESN’T BUY IT! Based on the ingredients list (see the DyeDiet “Dyegram” above) anti-nutritional risk of DDFI = 20/3 ~ 6.7 (very high!) comes […]

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