Of course you are staying on the perimeter of the grocery store where the fresh whole food is found. We are talking about the produce section, meat and seafood, and dairy aisle.

But every so often we find ourselves in the dreaded center aisles of the store where processed foods lurk and beckon with their convenience and promises of deliciousness.

So often the list of ingredients on the labels of these items contains familiar names, but we really don’t know what they are. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has published a list explaining what many of those funny sounding ingredients really are .

Education is empowerment, so click the link below and browse through the list and see how many of these you know about. What you find may surprise you.

https://www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm