Dangerous Ingredients: 54% of Food Sold at Walmart is Banned by Whole Foods Market
by Christina Sarich
February 22nd, 2014
Whole Foods maintains a list of ‘Unacceptable Ingredients” which includes everything from MSG to high fructose corn syrup. It also includes artificial colors, artificial preservatives, hydrogenated fats, etc. You can see the whole list, updated periodically, here. But did you know that about 54% of the products sold in stores like Walmart would be banned from Whole Foods due to containing dangerous ingredients? Check out the real differences below.
GMOS. While Whole Foods has yet to pull all GMO ingredients from their store, they also partner with Non-GMO Verified Project to offer numerous products that do not contain genetically modified ingredients, and they plan to eliminate products which contain them by 2018. They are pervasive in our food supply so it is very difficult to eliminate them, since they currently aren’t required to be labeled as ‘GMO’ by law.
Putting aside GMOs for the moment, how many of the groceries sold at Walmart would never be stocked on Whole Foods shelves? The 78 ingredients on their blacklist end up comprising over 54% of all the foods sold in Walmart stores. What’s more, approximately 97% of the soft drinks/soda sold at Walmart contain ingredients that Whole Foods considers “unacceptable”. High fructose corn syrup and the preservative sodium benzoate are primary culprits.
With its supercenters and over 3000 stores in the U.S., Walmart feeds much of America. Actually, it’s the largest grocery store in our country. Whole Foods, on the other hand, only has about 300 stores nationwide. We’ll be able to tell the overall health-consciousness of the country based on how Whole Foods grows in the coming years.
It is arguably cheaper to shop at Walmart in the short term, because junk foods and foods with ingredients that are questionable, if not completely toxic, are still permitted by the FDA, and thus infiltrate our food supply. Walmart doesn’t ban any of the foods on Whole Foods’ blacklist. Just high fructose corn syrup alone is in 14% of the foods the store lists on their website of over 19,900 food products available on average to the consumer.
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