Week 8: We cleared out our pantry, refrigerator and freezer of GMOs.
If it is not labeled organic or verified non-GMO, the product needs to be avoided if it is made from ingredients that might be derived from GMOs. The eight GM food crops are Corn, Soybeans, Canola, Cottonseed, Sugar Beets, Hawaiian Papaya (most papaya falls into this category) and a small amount of Zucchini and Yellow Sqaush.
If a non-organic product made in North America lists “sugar” as an ingredient (and not pure cane sugar), then it is almost certainly a combination of sugar from both sugar cane and GM sugar beets.
Products may be from cows injected with GM bovine growth hormone. Look for labels stating No rBGH, rBST, or artificial hormones. A lot of protein powders contain rBGH, so please read your labels.
The following ingredients may be made from GMOs if the product is not organic or declared non-GMO. Print this page and take it with you help clean out your pantry. Besides being GMO, most of these ingredients cause other problems and should be avoided for these reasons as well. Please reference my Label Library for more information on many of these ingredients.
Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, Canderel, BeneVia, E951)
Canola Oil (rapeseed)
Cobalamin (Vit. B12)
Fructose (any form)
High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)
Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein
Modified Food Starch
Mono and Diglycerides
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
Soy Protein Isolate
Sugar (unless cane)
Textured Vegetable Protein
Tocopherols (Vit E)
Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) although usually derived from corn, is probably not GM because it is not likely made in North America.
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