Label Logic: Cellulose Gum

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Cellulose gum is generally used in food as a thickening, emulsifying, and stabilizing agent. Due to its high viscosity, or thickness, cellulose gum is also found in products like toothpaste, laundry detergent (it works as a suspension liquid to remove stains from natural fabrics), water-based paints, diet pills, and laxatives. It can also be found as a lubricating element in eye drops (artificial tears).


Label Logic: Maltodextrin

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You may have seen maltodextrin pop up on nutrition labels for products such as pudding cups, soda, salad dressing, or candy. This is no surprise, as maltodextrin is considered a polysaccharide derived from starch. This also means that it is an alternative sweetener to fructose and sucrose, both of which have been designated as bad artificial sweeteners. But is maltodextrin really any better than fructose or sucrose?

Label Logic: Turbinado

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With the growing awareness of the dangers of trans fats, many food manufacturers are removing them from their products and replacing them with different fats in order to maintain the same taste and texture of their tried and true product. Many food manufacturers are switching to palm oil and palm kernel oil, both of which are extracted from the seeds and the pulp of the fruit of the palm oil, a plant native to Africa, and also widely used in parts of Asia.

Label Logic: Palm Kernel Oil

Palm Kernel Oil

With the growing awareness of the dangers of trans fats, many food manufacturers are removing them from their products and replacing them with different fats in order to maintain the same taste and texture of their tried and true product. Many food manufacturers are switching to palm oil and palm kernel oil, both of which are extracted from the seeds and the pulp of the fruit of the palm oil, a plant native to Africa, and also widely used in parts of Asia.

Label Logic: What are Parabens?

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Label Logic by Joann DiFabio-Klinkner is all about awareness of what is in the food you eat. How does this tie in to the Identity mission? Joann educates us in everyday language on ingredients so we can easily remember what is harmful to our bodies and what is okay for our bodies. What we eat can, in the short term, affect our mood and our energy, and in the longer term, have a major affect on our health. That’s why it’s an important part of helping you to Feel Beautiful Everyday!™

Label Logic: Sodium Nitrite

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Label Logic by Joann DiFabio-Klinkner is all about awareness of what is in the food you eat. How does this tie in to the Identity mission? Joann educates us in everyday language on ingredients so we can easily remember what is harmful to our bodies and what is okay for our bodies. What we eat can, in the short term, affect our mood and our energy, and in the longer term, have a major affect on our health. That’s why it’s an important part of helping you to Feel Beautiful Everyday!™

Label Logic: Dimethicone

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This one may not be hard to pronounce, but what exactly is enriched flour? You’ll see it on just about every cereal, cracker, and cookie box in the grocery store. But why not just say flour? What makes this flour so enriched as opposed to regular flour? The answers require a little history lesson.

Label Logic: Enriched Flour

Enriched Flour

This one may not be hard to pronounce, but what exactly is enriched flour? You’ll see it on just about every cereal, cracker, and cookie box in the grocery store. But why not just say flour? What makes this flour so enriched as opposed to regular flour? The answers require a little history lesson.

Label Logic: Inulin

Label Logic by Joann DiFabio-Klinkner is all about awareness of what is in the food you eat. How does this tie in to the Identity mission? Joann educates us in everyday language on ingredients so we can easily remember what is harmful to our bodies and what is healthy for our bodies. What we eat [...]

Label Logic: Pectin

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Label Logic by Joann DiFabio-Klinkner is all about awareness of what is in the food you eat. How does this tie in to the Identity mission? Joann educates us in everyday language on ingredients so we can easily remember what is harmful to our bodies and what is healthy for our bodies. What we eat [...]

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