Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
As with a couple of weeks ago, I’m getting back to Michael Pollan’s FOOD RULES. And this one is something I go back to time and time again: keep the ingredients simple.
I am reminded of a time when my husband and I were each enjoying mini ice cream containers from different companies. I happened to take a look at the ingredients on mine and there were five or six, and all of them were things I could pronounce and I could buy separately. The one he was eating? I lost count at about 28 ingredients, a majority of them didn’t look like food, and I couldn’t pronounce some of them, never mind handing the list to a third-grader.
Processed, store-bought food can have multiple and unpronounceable ingredients. It doesn’t have to.
Check the labels.
Can you read everything? More to the point, can you pronounce everything? Can you buy them all separately and make your own whatever-it-is?
Cheers! Here’s to your health!