100% Natural and Fat-free?

[Guest guest]

I recently joined this group and, from the quality of the postings,

it appears that many members are very resourceful at finding

technical information on nutrition and they pay close attention to

product labels.

Some time ago, when I was building a web page on Nutrition Labels, I

ran into some peculiarities about labeling that may be of interest to

the members of this group. In particular, I found out that products

labeled " 100% Natural " may contain partially hydrogenated oils which,

of course, are not natural at all. I also found some margarines that

claimed to be " fat free " but which had mono- and di-glycerides as

major ingredients for which the calories were not counted. The

promised 5 calories per serving were more like 60 calories when all

the ingredients were counted. After I contacted several nutrition

experts who substantiated my findings, I submitted a petition to the

FDA to try to end these deceptive practices. Here is a link to my

petition:

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/petition.html

Making sense of the nutrition label information is difficult because

frequently there are inconsistencies and rounding errors in the

data. Take a look at my web page on labels to see what I mean:

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/labels.html

Live long and prosper,

A. Zamora