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Chris Fry's avatar

This is a great start & good news! Hope they stay true to these changes and keep evolving and working with holistic, organic farms! Would be nice to see more sweeteners like stevia or other non-chemical sweeteners rather than sorbitol and aspartame (which is in most sweet foods). Also address the seed oils with other healthy options like coconut, avacado, olive etc. non-processed oils & definitely ban all hydrogenated oils! I am excited & praying for more positive options!

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DRM's avatar

We have to be grateful for anything we get.... too bad they didn't hear the part where RFK talked about seed oils.

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Sarah  Jett's avatar

Greetings from MI's Thumb Coast! Good not agree more! Hard to find, but a few chip producers have started a s-l-o-w transition: Kettle, Tostitos, Doritos, each have at least one product now cooked n AVACADO oil! What a joy to have a chip to crunch! It takes some searching; locally, Kroger carries the product, but Meijer carries not a single one. guess where I do the majority of the grocery shopping! Happy hunting; it's worth the time and effort! Slainte!

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Mothertrucker's avatar

Boulder chips has an avocado oil and a coconut oil chip. They’re both good.

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Sarah  Jett's avatar

Thanks for sharing! Perhaps the producers and vendors are catching our drift over to non-seed oils! Slainte!

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Mothertrucker's avatar

Actually the one chip is olive oil not coconut.

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Sarah  Jett's avatar

Muchas gracias! Best of all the oils! Slainte!

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Andrea Stevens, M.S., C.N.S.'s avatar

Still some desirable changes to be made, but definitely a good sized step in the right direction. Yay Walmart! Yay MAHA!!!!

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Drew Skonberg,DC's avatar

Have we addressed the devastating news from this week with the murderer Bourla meeting at the White House? How exactly can we get Trump the message that mRNA needs to die a quick death?

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Cindy's avatar

Excellent! Id love a link to thank Walmart for taking this action.

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Clwhughes's avatar

Now, get rid of the seed oils and sucralose! Great start though!

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Dawn K's avatar

Good start. We have to take what we can get. Any chance they will ban products with “bioengineered” ingredients? 🤨

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deadwooddrifter's avatar

I think it is corporate camouflage for a continuous non fresh non local food chain. When Wally starts promoting local regenerative products we will have progress. This is more of the same in a slightly different non recyclable package.

https://x.com/deadwooddrifter/status/1974060248873742797?s=46&t=QPCt7QqIhU8ECL6doF_Kcw

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Patricia Scott's avatar

Started using the app Yuka to discover all the “additives” etc in processed foods, we thought were “good”. It is great to have something to check the food labels with.

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Handsome Pristine Patriot's avatar

The good news is that the products are getting a bit more healthy.

The bad news is that most of it is still highly processed garbage.

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Living Well Locally's avatar

NEXT STEP: Walmart announces plans for supporting local fresh foods grown regeneratively and processed naturally.

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joe jacovino's avatar

so at least theoretically, it would seem , some of the harmful agents will be removed , so that now kids, whose parents feed them from the aisles of the 21% food market big(gest) box store , will now, almost unknowingly, be able to eat many less adhd triggers , which, at least theoretically , could reduce the amount of meds that said children take via the current "throw pills at the problem" scenario , which , but this time , not theoretically, tho never ever reported or linked , all of the school shooters are taking

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Christina Veselak's avatar

I’m thrilled!

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Raul F. Bustos's avatar

Was it Patton who said “Nuts”?, who thought of putting oil ( petroleum) in the food?

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John T's avatar

The problem with all of this is the way it came about isn't transparent. It was said manufacturers put ingredients in without consumers knowing, but they are required to put it on the labels. The FDA knows and certify and approve every man made dye. The FDA says that dyes don't harm children. The FDA has policies in place to remove items that do have harmful products. They never mentioned removing the dye colors that are in medications that are petroleum based. Here is the language from the FDA website. The truth matters.

Certain color additives, known as certified colors, which are generally synthetic dyes and pigments, are required to undergo batch certification before they may be used in products. In this process, the FDA chemically analyzes a representative sample of each batch of the color additive to ensure the batch meets the required identity and specifications.

The FDA continually monitors reports of problems that may be related to color additives and takes action when necessary. The FDA can issue a warning letter to the manufacturer, detain products before they are shipped to stores, issue import alerts, or even seize products that are found to be unsafe or to contain color additives that are misused, not authorized, or not properly identified as ingredients. The FDA may also revoke or amend its regulations of current authorized uses as needed.

The FDA has reviewed and continues to examine the effects of color additives on children’s behavior. The totality of scientific evidence shows that most children have no adverse effects when consuming foods containing color additives, but some evidence suggests that certain children may be sensitive to them.

You can learn everything you want to know about the actual policies and action that could actually be taken by HHS to remove the poisons without hoping everyone will jump on board. Policies are already in place.

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-ingredients-packaging/color-additives-information-consumers

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The organic vet's avatar

100% credit to MAHA and RFK, Jr for having gotten private enterprise to make changes without government dictums. Airing the dirty laundry of processed food (and medicines) to light's cleansing effects is truly a good thing. Keep up the exposures and awakenings of those who can make changes.

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