Shoppers Confused by Whole Grain Claims

[f1jim]

The western world needs to listen to a Jeff Novick video!!!!

https://consumer.healthday.com/vitamins ... 60225.html

f1jim

[JeffN]

The western world needs to listen to a Jeff Novick video!!!!

https://consumer.healthday.com/vitamins ... 60225.html

f1jim

Amen!!

Even their recommendations are confusing and based on a lower standard (aim for 50% of your grain intake to be whole grain). Here is my favorite quote from the article, "Even people with advanced degrees cannot figure out how much whole grain is in these products"

Here’s a link to the abstract

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals ... 9276315A60

Here’s another article that came out this week by Consumer Reports on the topic but again falls short.

Decoding Bread Labels
“Don't be fooled into thinking you're buying a healthy loaf when it's not”

https://www.consumerreports.org/food-la ... ad-labels/

It’s actually very simple

1) never ever believe any of the claims on the front of the product

2) read the ingredient list and make sure *all* grains/cereals are whole grains. There are 5 terms approved by the FDA that indicate if a grain is a whole grain. These are whole, cracked, rolled, stone ground, sprouted and brown rice. The first 5 must be in the list of the grain as a descriptor such as “whole wheat,” ‘Cracked wheat,” “rolled oats,” “stone ground corn,” or “sprouted wheat.”

In Health
Jeff