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A local market has a section marked "health food".

My question is what about all the other food for sale?? 🤔

And even the "health food" contains GRAS ingredients. I've become an obsessive label reader. One of my favorite labels is the brand name mayonnaise that blasts across the front of the jar in gigantic letters: "CONTAINS OLIVE OIL." Then you turn the jar around only to find that olive oil is the last ingredient in the list. The first ingredient is soy bean oil. I also love boxes of Jell-O claiming to be cholesterol free when there is no way it could ever contain cholesterol in the first place.

Yes the olive oil mayonnaise really pissed me off. Not only does it still have the shit oil in it but it tastes a little off too so what’s the point? Not making any more bodacious broccoli salad until I’ve tested and liked a homemade mayo recipe first. Very sad. The other new marketing gimmick is calling something which should not ever have gluten in it (like corn chips say) “gluten free”. I’d call this ridiculous except you’d be shocked how many products put gluten in them to make it more tast…

My grandmother used to make her own mayonnaise and it was terrific but before you go to all that trouble, there is a brand of mayonnaise that I can buy at Walmart; brand is Better Body Foods out of Lindon, Utah. Here's the ingredient list: avocado oil, egg yolk, water, distilled white vinegar, coconut palm sugar (which for some reason contains zero carbs), lemon juice, salt, ground mustard, garlic power, onion powder, and EDTA (preservative). It tastes really good. They also make a the same thi…