It’s unfortunate that food labels, which are ideally designed to help you make educated purchasing decisions, have deteriorated over time into little more than deceptive advertising.

There are a large variety of ways for food manufacturers to bend the truth on their labels, and some go as far as being outright fraudulent. The report, “Food Labeling Chaos,” created by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), outlines the many problems consumers now face when reading food labels.

“Chaos” is indeed the appropriate word, and unfortunately, there’s too much to cover in this one article. However, following are a few basics that you need to beware of that can help get you started.

Here are nine of the most common ways food labels lie, so you can prepare before your next trip to the grocery store.

Mercola.com

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