There's WHAT In My Canned Peaches? Del Monte Consumer Affairs Confirms It

You should read the book Fast Food Nation. It explains in great detail about various flavoring agents, including how and why many things which you and I would consider artificial are actually labeled as "natural."

And to answer your question, yes, the FDA is quite aware of it. ;-)

Also, read The Hundred Year Lie, and check out the website truthinlabeling.org. I rarely buy anything canned and I never buy anything that says "natural flavors". The food industry hides MSG and other undesirable ingredients under other names, and as 'Parenchyma' says, the FDA knows this!

Unless you pick it from the tree itself....or from the fruit bin............you're at the mercy of the company that packages it and sells it.

I have never canned anything except my ex-husband......so I don't know first hand.....but something tells me....it's prolly the better way to eat peaches, pears and apricots....oh my!

:)

I propose that labels start also including: "No Artificial Sweetners, Addivties or bull@!$%# Added"

File it under 'genuine imitation' flavor

Whats the point of having labeling laws when they do not tell you what is in the product? they will have to ban the use of "sweetener" and "flavoring" and make them actually list the ingreedients.

Good luck ever getting that to happen with all the politicians in the pockets of Del monte and the other food/chemical companies.

Gee, listen to all of the cynics. Do you really think that once a politician is elected to office that they care one bit about the people that put them in office. The fda and those other alphabet agencies are all civil service. The problem is that the meaning of of civil or service is not understood by these people.

Another example of the FDA and our government looking out for big business and not "we the people". Nobody is telling us the truth about anything.

Have you looked in on the 8.5 billion for swine flu vaccine. Yeah right.

Oh, get over yourselves.

The term "natural" has no FDA standard, it has no meaning - just a marketing ploy. Anything can be labeled "natural" with impunity and some fool will purchase and consume it for no other reason than the ink on the label. What is artificial is the silly notion that such a thing as "all natural" exists and that it could in any way influence "health". Just trendy poppycock.

Great market opportunity, though, since a fool and his/her money are soon parted. Good for DelMonte! Anyone is welcome to refrain from buying, for any reason.

Nobody cares about the phobias and elitist affectations of hypochondriacs who believe "all natural" is of any consequence. Why don't you ridiculous, preachy foodies pig out on an all natural steaming pile of organic fertilizer? Probably wouldn't harm you, and wouldn't taste any worse than some of the preposterous crap that's erroneously proclaimed to be "healthy".

Us normal people will continue to thrive on the good, affordable, wholesome food that DelMonte and other professional foodmakers prepare. No fear. No brainwashing.

Splenda is the worst invention of the last decade. GROSS!

First rule of thumb: If you can't pronounce an ingredient don't buy the product. I bake from scratch at home, and can control to a point what is in my cakes, cookies, casseroles, pancake syrup, pancakes, biscuits, muffins. I only use real sugar and mostly real butter (expensive), but the trade off is my husband can have his brownies with peanut butter cream cheese frosting, and not be bloated, and gain weight.

I can raise livestock, but the green thumb is not mine. Do raise or attempt to raise a few vegetables each year to have something truly fresh and pesticide free. My husband wants to put on pesticides to kill bugs, but if the bugs aren't killing the plants, I resist as long as possible. I am suspicious of organic labeling - doesn't necesssarily mean no pesticides - maybe just no "harmful" pesticides. I need to research further. The justification for higher pricing of organic is less yield because of more crop loss to bugs, but do they really mean it??? Could just be adding more to the profit margin, but would our corporate farmers do that? And those free roaming chickens, nice thought, but if they roam far in most rural areas they are coyote and hawk snacks. I raise bobwhite quail and have hawks sitting on top of the flight pens some days. The hawks are protected by fish and game in Missouri, and can't break into the pens, but make the quail mighty nervous.

If you eat beef, it is best to buy from a local farmer/rancher without a feedlot operation. There are organic beef producers, and you have a better chance of getting what you pay for.

I keep forgetting, not everyone has a farmer/rancher convenient, but surely there should be one within driving distance.

It is ridiculous the time we have to spend on researching "What's for dinner?" in this country in order to have something decent to eat. This is, if we care.

Whenever I see the words "natural flavor" I am always confused. It is an oxymoron. If I injest something natural, then what does flavor have to do with it.

This week I needed yogurt, plain, unsweetened. My husband bought it since I was ill. He got this huge container with huge letters that said "PLAIN'. I was racing and had zero time or reason to recheck ingredients. Since he is usually as particular with labels as I am, I used it. Several times. Then when I had my magnifying glass handy (HA, next time I'll bring it when I shop), and read the entire back of container, it had 25g of sugar, and was flavored with vanilla. This only made the condition I was using it far worse! And now I wonder if it was some creepy fake sugar sweetner.

All hell broke loose and I had a health problem that is now a serious infection. I have alternatives I can use, but I was furious. I threw this huge thing out, so I can't say what brand it was. We have got to be extremely cost conscious, so I was mad about that too since it was beyond large.

Now, as it develops it isn't only about the lies concerning what is actually in the container, but also the size of the lettering. The word PLAIN was gigantic. The rest was eeensy beensy.

Going to the supermarket is one chore I absolutely hate. It seems we have to be scientists, and assume all producers are liars. Memo: Must bring magnifying glass and cell phone to call companies re: their real nomenclature for fake ingredients which can cause serious problems for many of us. I had a small problem that is now terribly painful and gross.

Because of so-called plain yogurt. GRRRR....

Like McCowgirl said, do we have to be researchers to fix a snack, and what about the complexities of an entire dinner?

Oh, and whatever your name is on post #9, and whatever your name means, go suck on a lollipop made of aspertame and splenda for dessert. enjoy.

MMM, I think I just put on a few pounds hearing about Mocowgirls great home cooking, growing your own food for safe healty food adds depth to the first lady Michelle Obama's "Victory Gardens", If I were a politician I'd use it to tackle health care and the economy, lol. just food for thought, or should it be "thought for food". well now I am thinking of food, got to get my locally roasted coffee, with real sugar, Have a great day everyone