What makes a food ‘healthy,’ anyway? FDA tries to answer
collage of healthy foods

WASHINGTON – When the Food and Drug Administration declared that KIND bars – that sticky fusion of fruit, nuts, chocolate, and other treats – couldn’t use the word “healthy” on its wrappers in 2015, the KIND company took offense. It filed a petition objecting to the standards the agency used when considering fat content and asked…

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  1. I wouldn’t trust the FDA if I was paid.

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  2. When I have one foot in the grave and one foot on a banana peel, when the natural world is being degraded and destroyed for making money for some politicians, what difference does it make, unless you are a young bright woman who is thinking of having children? All this ‘organic’ stuff, while probably a good idea at the time, is not going to save the planet when the air and water and oceans are polluted. …. I love ‘Kind’ bars. Sue me! No one is going to be drinking plain tomato sauce and nibble on wild salmon bites.

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