Week 8: We cleared out our pantry, refrigerator and freezer of GMOs.
If it is not labeled organic or verified non-GMO, the product needs to be avoided if it is made from ingredients that might be derived from GMOs. The eight GM food crops are Corn, Soybeans, Canola, Cottonseed, Sugar Beets, Hawaiian Papaya (most papaya falls into this category) and a small amount of Zucchini and Yellow Sqaush.
If a non-organic product made in North America lists “sugar” as an ingredient (and not pure cane sugar), then it is almost certainly a combination of sugar from both sugar cane and GM sugar beets.
Products may be from cows injected with GM bovine growth hormone. Look for labels stating No rBGH, rBST, or artificial hormones. A lot of protein powders contain rBGH, so please read your labels.
The following ingredients may be made from GMOs if the product is not organic or declared non-GMO. Print this page and take it with you help clean out your pantry. Besides being GMO, most of these ingredients cause other problems and should be avoided for these reasons as well. Please reference my Label Library for more information on many of these ingredients.
Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, Canderel, BeneVia, E951)
AminoSweet
Baking Powder
Canola Oil (rapeseed)
Caramel Color
Cellulose
Citric Acid
Cobalamin (Vit. B12)
Colorose
Condensed Milk
Confectioners Sugar
Corn Flour
Corn Gluten
Corn Masa
Corn Meal
Corn Oil
Corn Sugar
Corn Syrup
Cornstarch
Cyclodextrin
Cystein
Dextrin
Dextrose
Diacetyl
Diglyceride
Equal
Food Starch
Fructose (any form)
Glucose
Glutamate
Glutamic Acid
Gluten
Glycerides
Glycerin
Glycerol
Glycerol Monooleate
Glycine
Hemicellulose
High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)
Hydrogenated Starch
Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein
Inositol
Inverse Syrup
Invert Sugar
Inversol
Isoflavones
Lactic Acid
Lecithin
Leucine
Lysine
Malitol
Malt
Malt Syrup
Malt Extract
Maltodextrin
Maltose
Mannitol
Methylcellulose
Milk Powder
Milo Starch
Modified Food Starch
Modified Starch
Mono and Diglycerides
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
Nutrasweet
Oleic Acid
Phenylalanine
Phytic Acid
Protein Isolate
Shoyu
Sorbitol
Soy Flour
Soy Isolates
Soy Lecithin
Soy Milk
Soy Oil
Soy Protein
Soy Protein Isolate
Soy Sauce
Starch
Stearic Acid
Sugar (unless cane)
Tamari
Tempeh
Teriyaki Marinade
Textured Vegetable Protein
Threonine
Tocopherols (Vit E)
Tofu
Trehalose
Triglyceride
Vegetable Fat
Vegetable Oil
Vitamin B12
Vitamin E
Whey
Whey Powder
Xanthan Gum
Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) although usually derived from corn, is probably not GM because it is not likely made in North America.
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