So, I was having a discussion with someone yesterday about how I have to go and squeeze my lemons for the next morning...and they said - that's a lot of work, just buy lemon juice it's 100% real juice...
Let's prove a point. I had a bottle of Lemon Juice in my fridge - Realemon 100% Lemon Juice. The ingredients listed are: lemon juice from concentrate (water, concentrated lemon juice), sodium benzoate, sodium metabisulfate and sodium sulfite (preservatives), lemon oil.
That's 6 ingredients in something that really should only have 1. When I make my own lemon juice this is what I put in it: Fresh squeezed lemon juice (strained to remove the pits). That's 1 ingredient.
The sodium in the store bought stuff means that there's salt in there somewhere and although the nutrition label states that there is 0g and 0% sodium in a serving, the serving is only 1tsp, and I use at least 1 tbs. THERE IS SODIUM IN THIS PRODUCT - they list it in the ingredients! But it's not listed on the nutrition label!
In the states (and I'll have to find the article again) they are trying to force food makers to change their nutrition label 'serving sizes' to portions that people actually consume - therefore, changing all the nutritional information on the label to be more realistic...so you know how much crap you're actually consuming! Food makers can (and do!) manipulate their nutrition labels so that the information on them don't seem so bad...the next time you buy a sugary 'single serve' drink check the label - I bet that it says that there's more than 1 serving in that bottle (juice is the best example of this....who drinks half a cup of juice?)
This is why I am switching to whole foods...so that I KNOW what's on my plate (and therefore, what's going in my body) because *I* put it there!
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