Amy's Organic Soups Have Pretty Good Ingredients

Much of this can probably be attributed to canned soups being naturally sterile due to the way they are processed.  Either way, as someone who just made a batch of soup today (with a handy assist from Bob's Red Mill Bean and Grain Soup Mix), this is pretty much like home made ingredient-wise.  All ingredients are organic where appropriate.  So on that note, here are the ingredients for Amy's Vegetable Barley Soup:

• Water
• Onions
• Barley
• Carrots
• Tomatoes
• Celery
• Leeks
• Zucchini
• Peas
• Sea Salt
• Spices
• Safflower Oil
• Garlic
• Bay Leaves
• Pepper

Half and Half of What?

Leave it to Americans to develop a "fat free" version of a product that specifically contains milk fat. Fat Free Half and Half, by Darigold Inc. is one such product. Here are the ingredients:

• Fat Free Milk  
• Corn Syrup - flavoring 
• Sodium Citrate - acidity regulator 
• Dipotassium Phosphate - used in "non-dairy" creamers to prevent coagulation. 
• Mono and Diglycerides - emulsifier 
• Carageenan - thickener 
• Vitamin A Palmitate - vitamin supplement 

 Is the fat content in a little cream in your coffee worth exchanging for sugar and some chemicals?

First Post!

Hi there. The purpose of this blog is post about food that I eat and the things that are on the label. I've been trying to eat more healthy food, and one of the things that I am trying to do is to eat less processed food. So many times we eat things with an entire paragraph of ingredients, many of which, we have no idea what they are, and what their purpose is. Having said that, I do not plan on going into a deep dive into every ingredient in a bag of Doritos. I may, however, take a few of those ingredients and tell you about them and where they came from. Thanks for reading!