For the Love of Food
Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.
This week the problem with the new labels, a huge listeria outbreak, and how to make bread healthy again.
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Links of the week
The Number to Avoid on the New Nutrition Labels <<You’ve probably heard by now that the FDA finally approved new nutrition labels featuring added sugars and highlighting calorie intake. While there’s stuff about the changes that is fantastic (oh hai trans fat!), there’s still a sense of putting lipstick on a pig. Thanks to James Hamblin for this brilliant critique of the new labels, echoing what I’ve been saying for years: that there’s only one place you should be looking to know if your food is healthy. (The Atlantic)
Can You Carbo-Load Your Way to Good Health? <<The title is incredibly misleading. This article is in fact an excellent expl…