Comments on: Serving Size Matters http://goodmaneats.com/2010/02/08/serving-size-matters/ A Portland food blog Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:19:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Caren http://goodmaneats.com/2010/02/08/serving-size-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-197 Caren Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:33:00 +0000 http://goodmaneats.com/?p=946#comment-197 I want to push back on the food labeling thing in a different way. I do most of my grocery shopping at the coop, I strive to eat more whole foods and all that. I find the labels of what "foods" contain to be very useful, particurally when it comes to dairy. I am faced with a case of seemingly similar yogurts, milk and cream products (cream and half and half). When buying cream the list of ingredients has been useful in determining which product is cream and which product contains other things too. With yogurt it helped me find cultural revolution because it had the least amount of sugar in a vanilla yogurt with no icky additives. In a world where "local," "organic," "healthy," "no additives," and "pure" are marketing tags as well a principals we eat by, we need food labels. These labels need to tell us what is in our food, both ingredients and the grams of sodium, fat, calories, and so forth so we can choose what is healthy and whole. I don't trust the sellers of even the simplest foods that the marketing key words match the product they are selling. And in order to find the raisins with the least sugar and the organic cream that actually conforms to my definition of cream, these labels help. I want to push back on the food labeling thing in a different way. I do most of my grocery shopping at the coop, I strive to eat more whole foods and all that. I find the labels of what “foods” contain to be very useful, particurally when it comes to dairy. I am faced with a case of seemingly similar yogurts, milk and cream products (cream and half and half). When buying cream the list of ingredients has been useful in determining which product is cream and which product contains other things too. With yogurt it helped me find cultural revolution because it had the least amount of sugar in a vanilla yogurt with no icky additives.

In a world where “local,” “organic,” “healthy,” “no additives,” and “pure” are marketing tags as well a principals we eat by, we need food labels. These labels need to tell us what is in our food, both ingredients and the grams of sodium, fat, calories, and so forth so we can choose what is healthy and whole. I don’t trust the sellers of even the simplest foods that the marketing key words match the product they are selling. And in order to find the raisins with the least sugar and the organic cream that actually conforms to my definition of cream, these labels help.

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