09/24/2026
Also avoid foods that have Citric Acid in them. It used to be natural but now it's made from Aspergillus Niger, a type of black mold and it's carcinogenic. We've been noticing they've started adding it to everything. Ascorbic Acid would be a better choice (Vit C).
When we do grocery store rehab with clients and take them to the store to shop for items on their list, they're blown away by what they learn.
For example- sun-dried tomatoes was on one woman's list. We found five kinds on the shelf. I asked her which one would she buy? She spend two minutes just looking at the label. Well... the labels lie. They are allowed to say salt free but use up to 4%... they may say "natural" but that no longer means anything because food corps asked to be able to call something natural when it only "started" as something natural even though it's been processed in a lab.
I asked her why she hadn't looked at any ingredients to make her decision. She said she just bought based on label aesthetics, what it said and price. I said, ok, but why not read the label to decide what you will put in your body? She told me she doesn't know how to read labels and its sun-dried tomatoes and they're good for you. I said, sure you know how to read a label- watch this... I turned it around and had her read outloud the one label... she read off tomatoes, oil, spices and SIX chemical ingredients she could barely pronounce and citric acid. Then I had her read another one. It only said tomatoes, oil, spices. Now which one do you want to put into your body. The healthier one without all the chemicals she couldn't pronounce was only $.75 cheaper. So it's not worth poisoning your body temple! And she realized she can read labels! If it doesn't sound like a food, it's a food chemical product. Choose something else and vote with your dollars. We can make change.
