I’ve mentioned in lecture I believe we’re eventually going to be viewing food more like a drug; this news report has a bit of with a big of a lecture by Dr. Russell Blaylock on Nutrition & Behavior.
An interesting news report that takes a look at the effect of Sugar, Alcohol and Sweeteners and how these may explain children’s behavior, poor performance, criminal behavior and perhaps even the growing numbers of Alzheimer’s patients.
You can find out more about Dr. Blaylock’s lecture at www.atavistik.com.
One of your classmates forwarded this Wired article on Cheez Whiz in response to a comment that I’d made in class, wondering if Cheez Whiz is the same as processed Cheese.
The article takes a look at What’s inside Squirt Cheese.
They found the following ingredients:
Whey – Byproductof cheese-making process used as a filler.
Canola oil – Keeps the cheese from solidifying.
Salt – Preservative, contains twice the sodium of typical organic cheddar.
Sodium citrate – Emulsifier.
Sodium phosphate – Degreaser, preservative.
Calcium phosphate – Adding calcium makes it legal for Kraft to label every can “an excellent source of calcium.”
Lactic acid – Byproduct of bacteria digest the milk sugar lactose.
Sodium alginate – Gum to increase viscosity.
Apocarotenal - Yellow-orange pigment.
Food Label
In looking at the food label, you can see that most of the calories come from fat, most of them from saturated fat.
One 32 gram serving has over 400 mg of Sodium.
Due to the addition of Calcium Phosphate, the product provides 20% of a Daily Value of Calcium, which appears to be the only healthy component to this cheese product.
It doesn’t appear to me in reviewing the ingredients in Easy Cheese or Cheez Whiz that it would qualify as a healthy food, or as a milk product in the milk group of the food pyramid.
Ingredients:
MILK, WATER, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, WHEY, CANOLA OIL, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, SODIUM CITRATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, LACTIC ACID, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, SODIUM ALGINATE, APOCAROTENAL (COLOR), ANNATTO (COLOR), CHEESE CULTURE, ENZYMES.
The Environment Working Groups Guide is now in its 5th edition. It features the 12 fruits and veggies with the most and least pesticides so you’ll know which ones to buy organic, and which conventionally-grown ones are okay when organic isn’t available.
Note: The Environmental Working Group ranked a total of 44 different fruits and vegetables but grapes are listed twice because they looked at both domestic and imported samples.
