Posted on 02/21/2014 4:41:49 AM PST by TurboZamboni
Whole Foods, one of the largest health-conscious grocery stores in America, maintains a list of “Unacceptable Ingredients for Food.” The store's blacklist is 78 ingredients long and contains many well-known villains in the eyes of health-conscious eaters—aspartame, MSG, and high fructose corn syrup, to name a few.
Though Whole Foods has grown over the years—it currently boasts more than 300 locations nationwide—it's still a small operation in comparison to Walmart, which runs more than 3,000 food-selling supercenters in the U.S., making it the largest grocery store in the country and indeed the world. Walmart does not ban any of the ingredients on Whole Foods' restricted list.
In fact, approximately 14 percent of food items sold at Walmart could not be stocked on the shelves of Whole Foods simply because they contain high fructose corn syrup. When all 78 ingredients banned by Whole Foods are taken into account, roughly 54 percent of food items sold at a Walmart would be prohibited at Whole Foods.
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We go to Whole Foods maybe once a year or two.
At our age artificial and adulterated foods aren’t much of a worry, but if I had small children I would really look closely at what I was feeding them.
Very likely going organic, no HFCS, etc.
BTW, special Passover season and Mexican Coca-Cola is made w/ sugar. Not sure of other soft drinks.
Whole Foods salad bar and prepared foods bar is mouthwatering .
OK then, what would you call him? He's certainly no leftist.
Whole Foods is the only place in Dallas that carries Califia Farms almond milk. I go there for that reason alone.
I like Whole Foods, but Walmart is fine as well. Both have a place in the market, imho.
Somehow I don’t think Whole Foods and Wal-Mart attract the same clientele.
And, when I consider I've seen several commercials telling me with great sincerity that HFC is just really nothing but "sugar" I wonder if what is in the can has changed at all OR did "BiG FooD" bride the FDA to allow them to call HFC "sugar"...?
A few years back I saw an article in an MIT student publication about a young girl's (presumably an MIT student) visit to a Whole Foods in her home town.In essence what she said,after having described the 400 types of cheese and the 300 varieties of wines they sold there,that shopping at Whole Foods isn't about health....it's a blatant display of conspicuous wealth.You don't see many Volvos or Bimmers in a WalMart's parking lot while that's *all* you see at Whole Foods.Well...those and some Subarus with ski racks on the roof.
I, too, have a list of adult-onset food sensitivities. My main culprits are sodium nitrites and MSG. Our family used to frequent Whole Foods but 2 years ago we found an organic grocery that delivers to your door in the Indianapolis area. Green BEAN Delivery has the same high standards but we are buying from a local company.
Anybody bother to check the labels on foods sold at Walmart? MUCH of their “off brand” items come from China like the majority of their other products. There ARE food brands produced in American but you have to watch what you purchase. One example: Canned mushrooms. Check the labels and you will find a number of items like these that indeed were produced in China.
Anybody bother to check the labels on foods sold at Walmart? MUCH of their “off brand” items come from China like the majority of their other products. There ARE food brands produced in American but you have to watch what you purchase. One example: Canned mushrooms. Check the labels and you will find a number of items like these that indeed were produced in China.
I met Mackey once, philosophically he’s a libertarian but politically he’s Republican. Most importantly he’s a great defender of Capitalism and puts his money where his mouth is. I used to go to Whole Foods for a few specialty items I couldn’t find in a regular grocery store but I moved and there is a Harris Teeter closer...i do like my antipasto.
Gee I don’t know the answer to that, but when Whole Foods starts selling their items at the same cost as Walmart let me know. I think the biggest question for most families is what is the most/best food I can afford. If they can buy three or four meals at Walmart and the same money will buy only one or two at Whole Foods than it’s no contest where they will shop.
Who cares?How many Men of Mongo would it take to overthrow Ming the Merciless????????????
Not sure if there is a Costco in your area but Costco started selling organic foods a few years ago and has been steadily increasing their selections so that they actually have quite a bit now (at least in my area).
I know people that shop at Whole Foods, but I think it’s too expensive. I normally shop at a Kroger affiliate, Costco (great produce, meat and wine selections as well as good selection on frozen foods and other items IMHO) and sometimes Safeway in my area. My sister buys things at Trader Joe’s from time to time and likes it (I just forget to go there - just a habit going to the others). I haven’t been to either one very often, but I think Trader Joe’s is sort of a lower-cost, not so fancy version of Whole Foods (not sure if Trader Joe’s is just a west coast thing or not).
I've been eating "pure foods" for over four years now. It's not any more expensive if one eats less and everthing eaten has good nutritional value.
It isn't just the ingredients, which are bad enough in WalMart-type foods. It's that there is so much salt in cheap prepared foods, and some still contain transfats, HFCS, and food dyes. Good luck trying to find a whole grain bread with no filler ingredients at WalMart.
The better chain around here also has more ethnic choices. And you know what? They manage to stock healthy foods that aren't more expensive than the major or store-labelled brands.
Same here....MSG and nitrates/nitrites are my enemy.
those and dairy, gluten, legumes, mollusks, and a bunch of other things, some like MSG and mollusks that could send me to the hospital with anaphylactic shock..
as a kid I ate everything and anything.....
While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have to food or shelter?
My Whole Foods stock has gone up over 1000% in the last 3-4 years.
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