Do You Check What’s In Your Food?

I had a prejudice that I thought, you know, well, you know, I always said it's not people's fault if they're overweight because of the food system so bad. But, you know, most people kind of know it's just hard because of the biology. But when I went down to film for this movie Fed Up, I was shocked that, you know, these people just didn't know what was in their food.

They weren't aware of what they were doing. Yeah, that's the thing. We were talking about this, about labels, weren't we? How few people take the step to just go, oh, what's, what's in this? You know, that just, just a simple thing. It's all written on the back.

Not the front of the label, but the back.

Yeah.

Have a look. What's in the nutritional ingredients?

Because that's the, that's the most basic form of educating yourself of what is.

Going in your mouth. Yeah. It's, it's tough, though, because even, you know, ingredient lists in Europe, they list percentages.

Yeah. Here they flavoring. They'll put like Natural flavoring, which can be another list of a whole other things. It's true.

Natural vanilla flavor is actually coming from beaver's anal glands. Are you serious? You learn something new every day. Wow. Well, that's what I'm looking out for now. You know what's really striking, and I had a friend who worked in the Obama administration in charge of the food programs and the food labeling, and he's like, the food companies you don't want to have sugar listed as the number one ingredient on the label. So they'll put five different kinds of sugar, because the list of ingredients is in order of the amount. But if you have, let's say, wheat as the first ingredient, and then you have like five kinds of sugar, actually sugar is the most predominant ingredient. Because they don't call it sugar, or they don't have the same kind of sugar. It's just a loophole in the law that allows the food companies to get away with bamboozling us.