TIPS on AVOIDING Genetically Modified Food at YOUR Grocery

GMO’s are flooding our grocery stores, our kitchen tables and our families stomachs. Everywhere we look or eat, GMO’s are there. If you are or are trying to be, a conscientious buyer, check out this list of how to avoid genetically modified foods (GMO’s) in your grocery store provided by Chiro.org:

• TIP #1: BUY ORGANIC:   Certified organic products are not allowed to contain any GMOs.  Therefore, when you purchase products labeled “100% organic,” “organic,” or “made with organic ingredients,” all ingredients in these products are not allowed to be produced from GMOs. For example, products labeled as “made with organic ingredients” only require 70% of the ingredients to be organic, but 100% must be non-GMO.

• TIP #2: LOOK FOR ‘NON-GMO’ LABELS:   Companies may voluntarily label products as “non-GMO.” Some labels state “non-GMO” while others spell out “Made Without Genetically Modified Ingredients.” Some products limit their claim to only one particular “At-Risk” ingredient such as soy lecithin, listing it as “non-GMO.”

• TIP #3: AVOID AT-RISK INGREDIENTS:   Avoid products made with any of the crops that are GM. Most GM ingredients are products made from the “Big Four:” corn, soybeans, canola, and cottonseed, used in processed foods. Some of the most common genetically engineered Big Four ingredients in processed foods are:

  Corn
  Corn flour, meal, oil, starch, gluten, and syrup
  Sweeteners such as fructose, dextrose, and glucose
  Modified food starch*

  Soy
  Soy flour, lecithin, protein, isolate, and isoflavone
  Vegetable oil* and vegetable protein*

  Canola
  Canola oil (also called rapeseed oil)

  Cotton
  Cottonseed oil

  Sugar
  Anything not listed as 100% cane sugar

  *May be derived from other sources

  In addition, GM sugar beet sugar recently entered the food supply. Look for organic and non-GMO sweeteners, candy and chocolate products made with 100% cane sugar, evaporated cane juice or organic sugar, to avoid GM beet sugar.

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