Another Reason More People Are Avoiding Eating Out

Natural News, a highly popular and influential website, has an article today about Subway's nutrition labels and the healthfulness of its food, entitled "Subway nutrition information — it may not be as healthy as you think." While it points out that Subway is conscientious about their nutrition transparency compared to some other restaurant chains, many people are learning through articles like this what food producers are adding to the food they buy and eat — and they don't like what they're discovering.  Wishing to either stay healthy or recover their health, they prefer to avoid the hidden hormones and genetically engineered (GE) corn given to beef and dairy cattle. Corn, soy beans, cotton (consumed as cooking oil) and canola are mostly GE now, and they are found in an estimated 60 - 70 percent of processed food sold in grocery stores. Although GMO (genetically modified organism — the same thing as GE) food is labeled as such in Europe and Japan, where people avoid them in droves, they are not labeled in the U.S., where they sell well to people who consume them unaware. It's hard to tell if a product has GMO in it or not, so a small but very possibly growing number of people avoid everything with corn, soy, cotton and canola in their ingredients or as cooking oil. They also avoid anything with sugar because most beet sugar is GMO. Avoiding these five items would include the vast majority of everything that's processed, which in turn make their way into restaurants.

Besides GMO, chemicals are commonly added to food, such as sodium nitrate, a known carcinogen, found in bacon, sausages and other processed meat. Azodicarbonamide, mono- and diglycerides and calcium propionate are among the less than appetizing-sounding ingredients found in hamburger buns. And on it goes.

Furthermore, the news is coming out that restaurants and retail outlets can't be trusted to label seafood correctly.  A customer who orders red snapper, say, may get tilapia instead, but at the red snapper price. As more and more of these facts become public, the trust in restaurants and grocery stores that used to be there evaporates, at least with a sizable segment of the population.

Rather than take a chance with what's in their food, people are increasingly preparing their own meals rather than eating out.

Natural News: Subway nutrition information — it may not be as healthy as you think

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