By Dave Zinczenko and Matt Goulding, Men's Health
If you want some insight into the food industry, take a stroll through your grocery store's candy aisle. There, on the labels of such products as Mike and Ike and Good & Plenty, you'll find what perhaps is a surprising claim: "Fat free." However, it's completely true-these empty-calorie junk foods are almost 100 percent sugar and processed carbs.
You see, food manufacturers think you're stupid. In fact, their marketing strategies rely on it. For instance, it may be that the aforementioned candy makers are hoping you'll equate "fat free" with "healthy" or "non-fattening"-so that you forget about all the sugar these products contain. It's a classic bait-and-switch.
And the candy aisle is just the start. That's why Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide has scoured the supermarket to crack the packaged food labeling code-so now you can make sure you get exactly what you're paying for. Never be fooled by misleading labels again!
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Comments: 5
But I still feel that sugar is better for you than all of that processed sugar substitute. I had horrible migraines while I was drinking diet soda. Now that I don't have anything with nutra sweet or Equal in it I rarely have a migraine