50 years ago, the president of the Keebler cookie company bragged to me that they made the best belly fillers in the United States! Naïvely, I asked what is a belly filler? The answer is it looks good taste good and has no nutritional value.! For 50 years this has been our problem in the food industry, figuring out how to use cheap ingredients and not deliver the food quality that we require! Time for change big time!
To be sure this issue is actually likely ancient in nature...The origins of the Food and Drug Administration and the Safe Foods Act came from post Civil War America wherein plaster, white powders, terrible harmful ingredients of all sorts were commonly used as fillers to make real food extend further. I would bet that these same things went on in the Egyptian, Greek and Roman eras as well.
Can’t attend the meeting but please address the large amount of sodium contained in our processed food. My husband has high blood pressure we are trying to reduce sodium in our diet. It is almost impossible to limit sodium to 1500mg. Dinty Moore stew has 900mg per serving. Sandwich meat, hot dogs, sausage, are all high in sodium. Anything canned is off limits. It is very frustrating.
50 years ago, the president of the Keebler cookie company bragged to me that they made the best belly fillers in the United States! Naïvely, I asked what is a belly filler? The answer is it looks good taste good and has no nutritional value.! For 50 years this has been our problem in the food industry, figuring out how to use cheap ingredients and not deliver the food quality that we require! Time for change big time!
Amen!
To be sure this issue is actually likely ancient in nature...The origins of the Food and Drug Administration and the Safe Foods Act came from post Civil War America wherein plaster, white powders, terrible harmful ingredients of all sorts were commonly used as fillers to make real food extend further. I would bet that these same things went on in the Egyptian, Greek and Roman eras as well.
We should be smarter than that!
Incredible that people brag about "belly filler" food! And it's only exponentially worse now. God help us.
Interestingly, there is a very large food additives industry in Rochester, Minnesota, just up the road from the renowned Mayo Clinic.
Globally it is a 30 billion $ business developing and selling flavor enhancers created in the laboratory!
Awesome!!!;I sure hope they put it on substack/ rumble, x and YouTube as that is work time for me and many others
Need to include plant based doctors.
Can’t attend the meeting but please address the large amount of sodium contained in our processed food. My husband has high blood pressure we are trying to reduce sodium in our diet. It is almost impossible to limit sodium to 1500mg. Dinty Moore stew has 900mg per serving. Sandwich meat, hot dogs, sausage, are all high in sodium. Anything canned is off limits. It is very frustrating.
So good to see this! Thank you MAHA Action.