Got money to burn? Fortified foods.

There’s one born every minute, so the saying goes, but in this day and age of copious and easily available information there’s just not much excuse for it… being a sucker that is.

But the food and beverage industry is counting on the wishful thinking of the uninformed to keep pouring hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain in the pursuit of ‘health’ by eating or drinking beverages and food that have been ‘fortified.’

I say “keep your fortified faux foods and just give me simple, real food.” Six ingredients or less, preferably the kind that needs no label and no package.

Apparently, the Center for Science in the Public Interest agrees, and here is just a partial list of the ‘food products’ ( note I didn’t say food) that is being hawked to consumers:

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