Processed Food World

GoodGuide to Packaged Foods: Is It Any Good?

If you’re looking for a reason to step away from the vending machine, goodguide.com looks to help by analyzing the fats, sugars, sodium, and additives in some 30,000 packaged foods listed on its consumer-product site — and all the information is accessible using smart phones, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. For some foods listed, nutritional ratings are informative but slightly counterintuitive. The second ingredient listed for top pick Wheaties is sugar and the fourth is corn syrup, but it still rates as more nutritious than Fiber One, which is lower in saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium. But on the other hand, it turns out the calcium carbonate in those fiber twigs has been banned in Australia. Good to know, but there’s still no data about the cereal’s aspartame, nicotinamide, and pyridoxine. So like with most nutritional claims, proceed with caution.

Rating site adds more packaged food to database [SF Gate]

GoodGuide to Packaged Foods: Is It Any Good?