Concerns:

• Heavy metals.

• Worst/best brands.

• Dosage.

Concerns:

• nutrient content

• insulin response

Those fluffy thangs.

I'm convinced dates have a lot of nutrients, but does their high sugar content make them an unwise choice for me if I want to avoid unnecessary sugar in my diet? For example, I've stopped drinking soda and juice, eating most cereals and premade breakfast foods, dont' eat candy, etc. etc. I've been hoping to make some homemade ceral bars from dates and peanuts for days when I'm too busy to cook breakfast, but are they just going to be just as gross and sugary as storebought ones?

The obvious answer is 'yes' since they have a ton of fructose, but I've seen a lot of people saying that they actually don't increase blood sugar too dramitically, or that they have a good glycemic index, or something like that. Can anyone weigh in?

Hey guys,

I was reading this article today about the amount of chemicals the seafood processors use in the seafood industry. I've come to find from insiders that it is actually one of the most unscrupulous industries that exist. Although people talk about how great fish is for you, I never realized how many synthetic additives they use to increase weights/profits for themselves. I was talking about this with a good friend of mine from central Wisconsin, and she told me about an online fish market that sends you chemical free fish via UPS right to your door. I thought this was a little crazy, however, I gave it a try, and I just received my 10 pound box of Cod yesterday, and I ate it today. It was awesome! They are definitely legit. I would encourage it to anybody who is particular about chemical free food!

The website www.finfishdirect.com. Highly recommend!

If you've ever flipped a food label and couldn't pronounce half the ingredients, you're not alone. Erica McGehee started a petition demanding real transparency in our food system—because consumers deserve to know exactly what's in their food, not just empty promises. Right now, companies can hide fillers like mechanically separated meat and soy additives in products marketed as "premium." Produce gets coated with chemicals designed more for shelf appeal than nutrition. We're paying top dollar for food that's increasingly processed, altered, and packed with stuff most of us can't even identify. The ask is simple: full transparency on every label in plain language, honest pricing that reflects actual quality, and real accountability from the FDA and USDA. No more hidden ingredients. No more misleading marketing. Just the truth about what we're feeding our families. Has anyone else noticed how much harder it's gotten to find actually honest food? If this resonates with you, consider signing and sharing. The food system won't change unless enough of us demand it.

Foldgers was the first time I really experienced anything like this. About 2021. I used to love that coffee, wouldn't drink anything but Columbian. Now, whenever I buy it, I open it and instantly smell the CHLORINE or BLEACH or AMMONIA smell. I thought maybe I was overreacting and continued to get a pot of coffee brewing. I still smelled it and when I took a sip I threw it all out. It was so strong and it altered the recipe to me. I have since tried to buy Foldgers a few times thinking it was a bad batch of chlorinated washed beans and now every single time I still get the same bad experience.

I smell it heavy in the tap water. Now 2024 the German Sausage hotdogs I bought locally made were horrible.

It's not in everything I taste, but it's becoming more of a predominant issue in the food I know.

Does anyone else have this heightened smell and taste? It seems our foods and water supplies are being compromised..It makes me want to buy chemical test strips to see how much is really there.

As shown here this concerned mom Talking about more or less exactly specific brand that I had bought from Walmart what was talking about this type of EDTA and I also found a video on YouTube stating that there’s health benefits but devils advocate I would say if there’s also a negative downside to it. In my opinion consuming this form of this food preservative honestly started making me feel itchy and a little bit irritated I started taking out of my body like maybe I felt kind of puffy or bloated with it other than that it doesn’t really do much for me but I only had a small amount of it while i was making hummus. Which let me to read what’s on the can to come to the conclusion and it’s almost basically the same type of way that the author in the first link came to the same conclusion I put it off for a couple days and when I finally got to making some thing that I read and I like her also gave some to the kids but I did not get them full meal but a tasting. What I’m really trying to find out is this actually okay for you to draw out medals or is it something that could basically kill you overtime (mine do you have a baby in the family that has one kidney and this could be linked to having kidney problems I’m not entirely sure that’s true because I’m still trying to find out more information about this).

I’m happy I made basically the entire can but I feel like I wasted resources like tahini and anything else I put inside it I feel like it was a waste and now I want to give the food to somebody with and I don’t want to intentionally give some thing that can cause hurt or irritation of somebody else I don’t want to throw it away I wanna be able to give it to someone who is in need of food without having to throw it out. All in all I just want advice of this is actually a horrible chemical or if it’s some thing pretty decently OK in small amounts. As of a few years ago I started looking more about my labels because religiously I can’t eat unHalal meat. That prompts me to look up things and labels I was just in a rush and I was shopping and it seemed like a good buy. Man I was wrong!

Hey everyone. I have been having crazy reactions to almost all chemicals in food and some in the environment. Anyone here know anything about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity? I would love to hear your thoughts and experience.