How to Read the "Nutrition Facts" Label
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2009
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever stared at the “Nutrition Facts” label on the back of food products wondering what to make of it, then this episode is for you. Learn about how to read the label, what to look for to ensure you're avoiding such unnecessaries as trans fats, how to identify animal products in the ingredients list, and how to understand the health claims made by manufacturers. Even though this episode is U.S.-specific, we're certain you'll get a lot out of it wherever you live.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Goudreau from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:23.2 | I founded compassionate cooks to empower people to make informed food choices and to debunk myths |
| 0:29.4 | about vegetarianism and animal rights. |
| 0:32.1 | I encourage you to check out our website |
| 0:34.0 | W.w.w.com to join our fabulous compassionate cooks club to order our cookbooks |
| 0:41.7 | the joy of vegan baking and the vegan table to connect with |
| 0:45.2 | other podcast listeners and to just find a bunch of resources and information |
| 0:49.1 | about living a compassionate life. I'd like to first start by thanking our supporters of the podcast. |
| 0:55.4 | These are people who are now members. |
| 0:57.2 | They used to be sponsors of the podcast, but now we've folded in the sponsorship program into the membership program. |
| 1:04.1 | So these are still people who support compassionate cooks and who I'd like to honor on the |
| 1:08.8 | podcast. |
| 1:10.1 | The first person I would like to thank is Sarah Facey. |
| 1:13.1 | Sarah wanted to dedicate her sponsorship to her friend Karen. |
| 1:16.4 | I'm assuming it's pronounced Karen. |
| 1:18.0 | It's spelled K-A-R-I-N, so I don't know if it's Corinne. |
| 1:21.6 | But Sarah said that, Corinne but Sarah said that Corinne Karen I'll go with Karen is a true |
| 1:25.7 | friend to the animal Sarah wrote the following. Karen has a house full of rescued |
| 1:31.1 | birds and cats and a lovely dog called Annie. Just as an aside |
| 1:35.6 | she has a website of children's stories about the animals that have lived with her |
| 1:39.7 | you can find that at birds should fly. co dot uk they're in the uk so anyway I wanted to |
| 1:46.9 | dedicate my sponsorship to her because she reminded me of something I'd |
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