How to Interpret Nutrition Facts Charts & What Ingredients Sabotage You

Food manufacturers and food technology have come a long way to include ingredients in the food that you buy to chemically make them taste better, light up addiction centers in the brain, to make you continuously buy them, along with other ingredients that will negatively impact your health, how you look, function, and feel. 

Interpreting the Nutrition Facts chart

Screening Ingredients list

If you see any of the following ingredients and choose to consume this food you will experience a laundry list of consequences in the short and long term

Artificial sweeteners light up the same part of the brain as heroin addicts’. This causes you to over consume the product, crave it more, and likely repurchase it in the store. 

Artificial sweeteners are hundreds to thousands of times sweeter than regular sugar. This tricks your metabolism into thinking sugar is on the way. The body pumps out insulin and stress hormones, which leads to: 

• More belly fat

• Feeling stressed

• Higher blood pressure 

• Slower metabolism making you burn less calories every day 

• Feel hungrier 

• Crave sugar and starchy carbs (i.e. bread and pasta)

Diet drinks and many other foods are full of artificial sweeteners which are thousands of times sweeter, more addicting, and will boost your insulin levels up multiple times higher than consuming something with sugar. 

Many people have been consuming sweeteners for many years knowing or not knowing it. These typically leak into your bloodstream and get stored in fat cells. They can kill off some of your brain cells, and causes formaldehyde to build up in your tissues leading to: 

• Headaches 

• Migraines

• M.S. 

• Seizures 

• Fatigue 

• ADHD 

• Respiratory difficulties 

• Intestinal problems

• Heart palpitations

• Weight gain

• Kidney tumors

• Depression

• Mental confusion

• Liver effects

• Cancer 

Artificial sweeteners

*Contains fructose

• Acesulfame K

• Ace k

• Acesulfame potassium

• Agave nectar*

• Aspartame

• Barbados sugar*

• Barley malt

• Beet sugar*

• Blackstrap molasses*

• Brown rice syrup*

• Brown sugar*

• Buttered syrup*

• Cane juice crystals*

• Cane sugar*

• Caramel*

• Carob syrup*

• Castor sugar*

• Confectioner’s sugar*

• Corn syrup

• Corn syrup solids

• Crystalline fructose*

• Date sugar*

• Demerara sugar*

• Dextran

• Dextrose

• Diastatic malt

• Diastase

• Equal

• Erythritol

• Ethyl maltol

• Evaporated cane juice*

• Florida crystals*

• Fructose*

• Fruit juice*

• Fruit juice concentrate*

• Galactose

• Glucose

• Glucose solids

• Golden sugar*

• Golden syrup*

• Grape sugar*

• High-fructose corn syrup*

• Honey*

• Icing sugar*

• Invert sugar*

• Lactose

• Malt syrup

• Maltose

• Maple syrup*

• Molasses*

• Muscovado sugar*

• Neotame

• Nutrisweet

• Organic raw sugar*

• Panocha*

• Rapadura

• Raw sugar*

• Reb A

• Refiner’s syrup*

• Rice syrup

• Saccharin

• Sorghum syrup*

• Splenda

• Sucanate

• Sucralose

• Sucrose*

• Sugar*

• Treacle*

• Turbinado sugar*

• Xylitol

• Yellow sugar*

Processed food lights up the same part of the brain as heroin addicts’.

Preservatives can kill off some of your brain cells, prevent the growth of good gut bacteria, and causes formaldehyde to build up in your tissues leading to 13 health issues: 

• Headaches 

• Migraines

• Fatigue

• Intestinal problems

• Heart palpitations

• Artery inflammation 

• Weight gain 

• High blood sugar

• Elevated blood lipids

• Poor sleep

• More stress

• Liver damage

• Cancer. 
  

Preservatives

• Anything benzoate

• Anything enzyme modified

• Anything hydrolyzed

• Anything nitrite

• Anything nitrate

• Anything sorbate

• Anything sulfate

• Autolyzed plant protein

• Barley malt

• BHA

• BHT

• BVO 

• Carrageenan 

• Dyes (Yellow 5 & 6, red 2, 3, & 40, blue 1 & 2, natural green color) 

• Gelatin

• Glutamate 

• Glutamic acid

• Hydrolyzed plant protein (HPP) 

• Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) 

• Maltodextrin

• Monosodium glutamate (MSG) 

• Natural seasoning

• Polysorbate 60 

• Potassium bromate

• Propylene Glycol 

• Propylparaben

• Protease

• Sulfur dioxide

• Textured protein

• Trans fat

• Umami

• Yeast

• Yeast extract

Industrial Oils

• Canola oil

• Corn oil

• Cottonseed oil

• Safflower oil

• Sunflower oil

• Grapeseed oil

• Hydrogenated oils

• Peanut oil

• Soybean oil

• Vegetable oil

Grains

• Amaranth

• Barley

• Bulgar

• Corn

• Corn meal

• Couscous

• Grits

• Millet

• Oats

• Rice

• Rice flour

• Rye

• Wheat 

• Wheat/white flour 

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References

Lustig, R.H. (2013) Sugar Has 56 Names: A Shoppers Guide. New York, New York: Hudson Street Press.