Protective Diet Class #082

Mastering Label Reading

This class will demystify food labels, empowering you to identify food additives and flavor enhancers that keep you tied to food. Cutting these chemicals out of your diet is a critical, overlooked component of reclaiming the taste bud-brain connection, finally freeing your body to signal, “Full and satisfied.”

Announcements

• Watch Tweaking Tastes and Creating Cravings–60 Minutes (14 minutes).
• UPDATE: All Baking Soda is Aluminum-Free–Packaging that touts “Aluminum-Free” is a marketing gimmick.
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Vocabulary

Food Craving	Physical Food Addiction	Preservatives & Dyes	The Chinese Food Effect
Dopamine Response	Neurotoxin	Flavor Enhancers	Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
Taste bud Reception	Additives	Umami	Glutamic Acid

Action Steps to Mastering Label Reading

• Know Why We Avoid Food Additives
• On a Protective Diet we eat for optimal health, eliminating everything that causes physical food addiction and chronic cravings, including food additives and chemical flavor enhancers.
• Food additives are more addicting than caffeine.
• Food manufacturers pay chemists to chemically enhance foods with exciting concentrated flavors that affect taste bud reception and elicit an unnatural dopamine response. Their profit-driven goal is to create chemical dependency causing you to overconsume their product and secure your loyalty to their brand for life.
• In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) allows additives to have names that sound healthy.
• The FDA does not require food additives to be listed individually when they are chemically coupled with natural ingredients.

• Become an Expert
• Familiarize yourself with common food additives.
• If you can’t pronounce it, you shouldn’t be eating it.
• Canned goods should only contain the food, water and salt.
• Beware of foods marketed as “Salt Free”, “Fat Free”, and “Sugar Free”; often even more chemically enhanced.
• Chewing Gum also has additives.
• This class includes a “picture walk” through several actual food labels and what to look for.

• Source Additive-Free Ingredients
• There is no list of PD approved food brands because companies change the composition of their products.
• The Basic Question: “Can I find (insert label word here) as a separately sold item on the grocery store shelf?”
• Read the label! Find alternatives. Store brand products are often the cleanest (especially mustard).
• Be willing to go to multiple stores or order online if necessary.

	Code Names	Commonly Found in	Reason to Avoid
Nutrient Additives	Vitamin, Protein	Packaged Food, Bread, Pasta	Unnecessary on a Protective Diet
Naturally Occurring	Naturally Derived Citric Acid	Canned Foods	None—but alters flavor
	Casein; Casomorphin	Dairy Products	Behaves like morphine in the brain
	Sulfites	Dried mushrooms, beer, vinegars	None—unless you have sensitivity
Chemical Additives	Silicon Dioxide	Spices and Salts	None
	Calcium Hydroxide	Tofu, Corn Tortillas, Masa Harina	None
	Calcium Sulfate	Tofu	None
	Magnesium Chloride	Tofu	None
	Calcium Chloride	Canned Foods	Unnecessary
	Citric Acid	Condiments, Canned Foods	Contains MSG
Flavor Enhancers	MSG	Soy Sauce, Miso, Asian Foods Commercially Fermented Foods, Bouillon, Gelatin Liquid Aminos, Coconut Aminos, Meats, Faux Meats, Cheeses Shelf-stable Tofu, Condiments, Spice Blends Processed and Packaged foods	All of these additives are MSG derivatives, a known neurotoxin that kills brain cells, triggers food cravings and spikes appetite due to super-concentrated, chemically enhanced flavor
	Monosodium Glutamate
	Glutamic Acid, Glutamine
	Yeast Extract/Nutrient/Food
	Maltodextrin
	Textured
	Textured Vegetable Protein
	Hydrolyzed Protein
	Protein Isolate
	Seasonings  or Flavorings
	Natural Flavor	Widely used in all beverages and  packaged foods	__% Natural Flavor  +  __% MSG
	Spices or Organic Spices		__% Spices  +  __% MSG

Student Q & A

• Q: What if a label says “Spices (Parsley, Oregano, etc.)”?
• Q: Are food manufacturers allowed to only list some of the ingredients in foods?
• Q: What about my tofu coagulant?
• Q: Is erythritol (e-sugar) questionable?

Encouragement

• As we progress, I want you to be able to independently read labels and choose foods that contain only healthy ingredients.
• Food additives can be hard to identify, so don’t feel bad if you have been eating them…if you have been including some of these ingredients in your diet, chalk it up to the learning curve and after this class eliminate them.
• I want you to be the expert. I am trying to empower you with the information and tools that I use to free myself of cravings. I want you to feel as good as I feel and to be free from food addiction.

“The longer you are off food additives, the better natural foods are going to taste! Do yourself a favor, cut them out of your diet! You will eliminate the cravings. You will eliminate the search for that awesomeness!”

Recommended Recipes

• Try King Sauce and 100+ additional additive-free, protective Condiments created to keep you from getting bored
• Try Protective Gum or Breath Fresh Spray as an additive-free chewing gum replacement

Recommended Classes for More Information

• #020 Food Additives & Code Names
• #086 Sugar In Health Food Camouflage

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Class Description:

Learn to identify food additives confidently and independently

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Class URL: https://protectivediet.com/courses/protective-diet-education/lessons/class-82-mastering-label-reading/