‘Cause Nothing Says “Home Cooked” Like Velveeta
Y’know, there are times when I admire the sheer chutzpah some food companies display, when it comes to promoting their products. Take, for example, this commercial for Kraft’s new “Velveeta Cheesy Skillets”: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9kDXpvkpFM] Because pre-fab, “shelf-stable” meals like Velveeta Cheesy Skillets = good, old fashioned home cooking… just like “mom” (or...
LAT: “Fair Food: Deep Fried and Guilt-Free. Well, Almost.”
Normally, I like LA Times reporter Jeannine Stein’s work. But if today’s article, “Fair Food: Deep Fried and Guilt-Free. Well, Almost,” is any indication, I don’t like her taste(s) in food. Seriously, reading it almost made me nauseous. I ate deep-fried butter at the Orange County Fair. And I’m not apologizing for it. Let’s face it — going to a county fair is like getting a free pass to...
Homeopathy on Trial?
Not yet, but it could happen. Via the “Journal of Are You Fucking Kidding” (JAYFK), comes an update on a class-action lawsuit in California against Boiron, one of the largest manufacturers of homeopathic products in the world. Why? Because one of its products, “Children’s Coldcalm,” is “… nothing more than a sugar tablet.” Defendants are defrauding Californians by claiming that a tablet...
Weekend Roundup
The FDA warns the makers of “Lazy Larry” brownies that it doesn’t consider melatonin to be a safe food ingredient. Will DHA supplements really help your child do better in school? The “Healthy Skeptic,” Chris Woolston, is skeptical. Pfizer wants to sell Lipitor over-the-counter. According to stats released by British hospitals, children as young as 5 are being treated for eating disorders. Study: eating...
Should Serving Sizes be More Realistic?
The Center for Science in the Public Interest certainly thinks so: Labels for canned soup, ice cream, coffee creamer, and aerosol non-stick cooking sprays understate the calories, sodium, and saturated fat consumers are likely to get from those products, since the declared serving sizes are much smaller than actual serving sizes, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest. In a recent letter to Food and Drug...
Study: Kids Eat More Veggies When They’re Hidden
According to my IFT newsletter… A study published The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that children consume more vegetables when the greens are pureed and secretly added to main dishes. The researchers fed prepared meals to 40 kids, age 3–5, one day a week for three weeks. The meals looked the same each day—zucchini bread at breakfast, pasta with tomato sauce at lunch, and a chicken noodle casserole at dinner and...
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