In our quest for healthy food, most of us have become careful label readers. We want to know exactly what’s in the food products we buy.
Knowing this, marketers have become experts at conning us with misleading food labels. They take advantage of loopholes in labeling laws to use weasel words that sound healthy but really aren’t.
Here are nine of the most-abused food package words and phrases…
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