Tuesday, July 31, 2012


18 Supermarket Lies Revealed


If you want some insight into the food industry, take a stroll through your grocery store's candy aisle. There, on the labels of such products as Mike and Ike and Good & Plenty, you'll find what perhaps is a surprising claim: "Fat free." This is completely true, but it's also utterly insulting. These empty-calorie junk foods are almost 100 percent sugar and processed carbs. You'd be better off eating fat.

Food manufacturers think you're stupid. In fact, their marketing strategies rely on it. In the case of candy makers, they're hoping you'll equate "fat free" with "healthy" or "nonfattening"—so that you forget about all the sugar these products contain. It's a classic bait and switch.

And the candy aisle is just the start. That's why theEat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide has scoured the supermarket to crack the packaged food labeling code—now you can make sure you get exactly what you're paying for. Never be fooled by misleading labels again!

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