Read the Label

Nadia Wren

Grocery packaging is designed to be read quickly and believed completely. This is how to slow down and see what is actually there: what "natural flavor" can legally hide, the sugar aliases that pad an ingredient list, how serving sizes get shrunk to flatter the numbers, and a short method for scanning any label in the time it takes to toss the item in your cart. Practical, clear-eyed, and steady.