Ingredients Not On Label

[Granny Garbonzo]

Kevin Trudeau's book "Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About"

he says there are thousands of ingredients that do not legally have to be put on the label as ingredients!

I've read this in other places too, and intend to do some research to discover what these ingredients are and why they are not put on labels.

This sort of thing puts folks like us at great risk.

[RiceGuy]

Yeah, I don't appreciate it either. Most people never even give it a second thought when they consume something like an Oreo cookie, which has undeclared ingredients. Apparently the white goop they use is some "secret recipe", and the government actually allows companies to withhold the ingredients for such. I've read it contains lard, but the package declares the cookies to be kosher, pareve or some such thing. I don't recall which at the moment, nor have I ever looked so I don't know if that is true, or if it was ever true. While I'd hope lard wasn't used, one never knows...

One thing that bugs me though is when the ingredients say "spices", and absolutely no information whatsoever as to what that might be. Seems to me practically anything that imparts a flavor might get referred to as a spice. I have read that things like MSG can hide under the term. But I actually do have an allergy to a particular spice; celery seed. However, there are two different kinds. One is ground, and the other is the whole seed. I've read these can often be derived from different plants, and many times it's actually not the vegetable celery, but a close relative of it. While I can use the whole seed, the ground stuff causes a few different allergic reactions. So even if this spice where listed, I still wouldn't know which one it was.

[chrissy]

i wouldn't trust kevin trudeau any further than i could throw him, but that's just me.