Monday, May 12, 2008
Food & Life Guaranteed mold-free with plenty of vegetable color
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:57 PM
One of the suggestions for sensible eating in Michael Pollan's new book, In Defense of Food, is avoiding anything with ingredients you've never heard of.
While I was shopping at Publix a few days ago, I noticed this label on one of its pre-made salads. It includes everything from mold inhibitors and sodium nitrite to corn syrup and "vegetable color." The potato salad label was even lengthier.
Meanwhile, the store was out of Fuji apples, the dried cherries I eat in my oatmeal every morning and the brown sugar I also put in my oatmeal. The store manager explained to me that there's a "sugar shortage" because a processing plant burned down somewhere. Who knew?
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