{"id":2234,"date":"2022-07-05T15:16:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2022-07-05T15:16:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:16:54","slug":"beware-of-clean-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/05\/beware-of-clean-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of \u2018clean labels\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Restaurant Brands International, apparently happy with the reaction to its <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/21\/burger-king-still-serving-up-brain-damaging-ingredients-despite-what-you-may-have-heard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burger King \u201cbanned ingredient\u201d<\/a> list of 2021, is now tapping another one of its brands, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, in promising \u201call-clean ingredients.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Burger King announced it was planning to ban 120 \u201cnon-essential artificial ingredients\u201d from its food, Popeye\u2019s seems to be focused on one in particular: monosodium glutamate (MSG).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are currently testing all-clean ingredients in our batter, breading and sandwiches in a few U.S. markets and we expect to be on track to an all-clean menu nationwide by 2025,\u201d the company told&nbsp;<em>Bloomberg<\/em>.<s><\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds healthy, doesn\u2019t it?&nbsp; But will they actually get rid of the ingredients that contain the component in MSG that causes brain damage and adverse reactions, such as asthma and migraine headache?&nbsp; It\u2019s deceptive and misleading to replace MSG with other toxic ingredients.&nbsp; But worse yet to refer to excitotoxic amino acids as \u201cclean\u201d ingredients.&nbsp; Today, there is a whole clean-label industry centered around toxic manufactured free glutamate (MfG).&nbsp; An industry that promotes the use of ingredients that contain the same toxin that MSG contains, but will give no clue to its presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/names.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here\u2019s a list of ingredients that contain it. <\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurant Brands International, apparently happy with the reaction to its Burger King \u201cbanned ingredient\u201d list of 2021, is now tapping another one of its brands, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, in promising \u201call-clean ingredients.\u201d While Burger King announced it was planning to ban 120 \u201cnon-essential artificial ingredients\u201d from its food, Popeye\u2019s seems to be focused on one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/05\/beware-of-clean-labels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beware of \u2018clean labels\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[376,490,491,31,4,489],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-burger-king","tag-clean-labels","tag-fast-food","tag-mfg","tag-msg","tag-popeyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}