What's the difference between fat free and gluten free?
Should you buy all organic or all natural?
These are questions that we ask ourselves while strolling down the aisles, but what do the labels really mean?
Sometimes a quick stop at the grocery store turns into a 45 minute brain sizzler.
It's already hard to choose between cheez-its and cheez-nips, but now when grocery stores carry over 46,000 goods, most having shiny labels like organic, 100% natural, fat free, light, gluten free, the decision becomes harder.
When you see organic, think green. All organic items are produced in a way that is good for the earth, having no pesticides, fertilizers, antibiotics, synthetic hormones or genetic engineering.
Having 100% natural food in your fridge means no artificial colors or ingredients, flavors, or preservatives.
Fat free sour cream will never taste the same as regular. This is because fat free products only contain .5 grams of fat per serving. Light sour cream might do the trick with only cutting out a third of it's calories while holding on to it's flavor from the fat.
Gluten free products contain no wheat. These labels are very important to people who have celiac disease or wheat allergies. If people with these conditions, consuming wheat products can cause damage to the intestines.
So now when it's time to bring food home to your kitchen you know exactly what you are getting.
If you are thinking about going organic for the nutritional values, think again! Current research shows little or no nutritional difference in the benefits of organic or 100% natural foods and conventional synthetic produced foods.
