KTK-Nutrition

Good news for consumers.   Many manufacturers and fast food restaurants are making healthful changes in their food offerings.    In the last few weeks, Kraft, Chipotle, and Pepsi have made announcements about upcoming changes.   What drove these changes?   You the consumer, did by requesting healthier options.    It is usually the government forcing manufacturers to make changes and now with social media, the consumer is in the driver’s seat.   So what is changing? Kraft Macaroni and Cheese:     has announced it is going to make macaroni and cheese without the synthetic colors or artificial preservatives.   This change won’t take place until early 2016, but is good news for consumers.   Last March, a Change.org petition requested Kraft remove dyes from its mac and cheese.    This petition garnered over 365,000 signatures so carried a lot of weight with the company.   Before complying, Kraft went to the st...

A few years back I saw the CEO of PepsiCo being interviewed on CNBC.   She said her goal was to make snack foods healthier.   Yeah, right.    Not too long after I noticed Sun Chips.    A whole grain chip made with a heart healthy oil.   Back then Frito Lay also began producing Doritos and Fritos that were whole grain.   But for some reason they no longer are.   But she continued to produce Frito-Lay chips with hearth healthier oils.   So now what is Indra Nooyi the CEO of Pepsi up to?   She now wants to cut down on the sugar in the sodas Pepsi produces so that Americans who are soda drinkers will get   less sugar in their diets.   Time magazine said she is putting “PepsiCo on an innovation diet”.    Pepsi   True – a new lower sugar Soda, coming to stores in October.   Good bye high fructose corn syrup and hello sugar (sucrose).   But less sugar as Stevia will also be added.    And...