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Jolly Rancher: another fake fruit candy

Jolly Rancher: another fake fruit candy

[ 10 ] July 20, 2011 |

Jolly Rancher hard candy is artificially flavored SUGAR manufactured in Canada for the Hershey Food Corporation. It took the manufacturer even lesser to formulate this candy than what it took Zachary Confection to make their fake “cherry” slices. This time they were able to get away without food starch. One nutrient less! What they have left to Americans were only […]

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Dye Diet Calculator: Food rating systems at a glance

Dye Diet Calculator: Food rating systems at a glance

[ 5 ] June 29, 2013 |

How to find healthier food? Naturally and by definition, food is nutritional substance. Anything else is not food. The more food additives it contains the less food it is. We have over 3000 food additives in the American food supply. In 2012 year alone, there were more than 25 million pounds of the artificial colors […]

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Sierra Missed Natural lemon-lime

Sierra Missed Natural lemon-lime

[ 0 ] February 28, 2012 |

Sierra Mist Natural lemon-lime soda looks like an attempt to lurk you into buying 0.5 L of water sweetened with 62 g of sugar under the pretension of something bigger than that. Trying to convince you the manufacturer, PepsiCo, throws redundant statements at you: No artificial ingredients; lemon-lime and other natural flavors; 100% natural flavors; […]

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Mayfair Cane with motor oil

Mayfair Cane with motor oil

[ 1 ] December 10, 2011 |

Original candy cane was simply a stick of pure white sugar. Unfortunately, modern candies are “improved” by deceptive artificial colorants, flavors and other non-nutritious additives. Therefore while the Holiday Season, you and your children have higher chances to be exposed to those problematic food additives. Please read a fresh article about what I call the […]

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Pedialyte: Time to poison your child

Pedialyte: Time to poison your child

[ 27 ] November 30, 2011 |

It is sad for me as a professional chemist to find out that my highly educated colleagues from a respectful pharmaceutical and health care giant, Abbott, are playing pranks with YOU by designing and selling to you Pedialyte, a miserable chemically loaded twin of Gatorade marketed to the American children (see  Food marketing to children […]

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Blow Teeth Pops

Blow Teeth Pops

[ 8 ] November 5, 2011 |

I find it very unfortunate for the American children and disgraceful for the food manufacturers that most of the candies (e. g., like Jolly Rancher) you can buy at Walmart, convenience stores and many grocery stores everywhere in the USA are nothing else but primitive and nasty stuff like these Blow Pop Charms: DyeDiet Doesn’t […]

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Brisk Offers Risk

Brisk Offers Risk

[ 1 ] August 18, 2011 |

Here is Brisk Fruit Punch, a creature of Pepsi-Lipton brotherhood… Fruit, really? No, of course not. This is another example of the “fruit fraud” we need to be aware of to protect our children and hence the future of this country. So let’s see what kind of “fruits” are there for you to swallow. DyeDiet […]

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Coca-Cola cherry: Risk and Nutrition

Coca-Cola cherry: Risk and Nutrition

[ 2 ] July 30, 2011 |

I cannot say that Coca-Cola cherry is healthier than just reviewed Dr Pepper cherry but the truth is that it is less risky. And yet it is not good enough for regular drinking. Take a look at the risk diagram to see why. DyeDiet DOESN’T BUY IT! Unlike Dr Pepper cherry, this one is a little lower […]

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Dr Pepper cherry: dye content

Dr Pepper cherry: dye content

[ 3 ] July 27, 2011 |

Dr Pepper cherry is a soft drink with only TWO nutrients: carbonated water and High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) that constitute for 98% of the content.  The rest 2% are unnecessary and potentially harmful chemicals like sodium benzoate (see Southampton University ADHD studies), phosphoric acid (rust converter) and an artificial color Red 40, number one food colorant in […]

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You Can Feed Yourself

You Can Feed Yourself

[ 3 ] June 26, 2013 |

We have a number of major problems in the American food supply: chemical food additives, residual chemical pesticides, residual chemical fertilizers, genetically modified food and toxic heavy metals in the growing portion of food we import from overseas. All these problems follow from mass-production of food in the economy driven strictly by profit maximization. On […]

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