It isn't organic! Natural flavor is not natural!

As I am looking more and more at ingredients looking for corn and chemicals, it is getting very bad out there. I picked up a magazine that is mostly ads for organic food and the first three pages are devoted to ads and food that I have called the 800 number and asked what was in it!

The inside cover is devoted to Nature's Path Organic Oatmeal. I called the 800 number and asked. The "natural flavor" is maltodextrin.

Just Imagine organic chicken broth. If you read the ingredients it says natural chicken flavor, or was it natural chicken broth. It is a mixture of soy and corn. I asked the company and where is the chicken in that? It is allowed by the FDA was the answer.

A lot of companies won't tell you what their natural flavor is. It is proprietary information. They will tell you what it isn't if you are allergic to something. I am allergic to corn and 99% of the time it is a corn chemical of some kind. Also what has happened to truth in labeling?

I called a lemon juice company and the nice lady told me the citric acid wasn't corn, it was a synthetic, but she didn't know what it was because it came from a lab. I asked why are you calling it organic? She said, check the label, it says made WITH organic ingredients, not that it was organic.

I just was looking at a box of Annie's Organic Cheesy Lasagna. There is natural flavor, unspecified, but probably corn or maltodextrin, citric acid, probably made from corn and disodium phosphate. I actually have not called the 800 number on them yet.

I did call Muir Glen Organics today about the citric acid. It is made from corn. When I said that wasn't right, the girl said how else do you make it? It is supposed to be made from citric fruit. Not too bad unless you are allergic to corn.

I called an 800 number a day for months asking for ingredients. The main thing I have decided it that our food supply isn't what they say. And there doesn't seem to be anything they can't put corn in.

I talked to corporate at Whole Foods and was told that invert sugar, maltodextrin, corn syrup and the like pass their standards of wholesome food. The sad part is our Whole Foods has a new sushi bar, oh so healthy. There is High Fructose Corn Syrup in a lot of the sushi! What in the world is HFCS doing in sushi? I was told it was a separate business.

Have fun today! Call an 800 number and ask about your food!