Great little study – 318 people – that concluded that
using labels like “anti-oxidant” and “gluten-free” on a product led those
people to assume that the product was healthier than a similar product that
didn’t carry those labels.
Now I’ve known that I’m a celiac for over 40 years now,
and for the first 35 or so of those years, I could count, the number of GF
products out there that actually tasted like food and not like sawdust, I am
over-the-moon happy with the explosion of tasty GF products now available to us
so I don’t wanna do anything to knock that market, but hey! There’s absolutely
no scientific basis to believe that GF products are “healthier” for anyone
besides celiacs (and maybe gluten-intolerant” people, too) than non-GF
products.
GF is just a label to warn off those allergic or sensitive
to the ingredients in that product.
Even more egregious, there’s absolutely no scientific
evidence to believe that adding anti-oxidants to a health-neutral or unhealthy
product (like soda pop, for example) is going to suddenly make that product
more healthy.
Bottom line: read the ingredients on something you want to
eat, don’t pay any attention to the labels.
And remember this, too: the more ingredients they add to
something (and the more labels they plaster on that something), the more likely
it is that the maker of that product is trying to get you to forget that that
products isn’t something you should be eating lots of in the first place.
