Label reading is why it takes me forever to grocery shop, but it's so important if you value feeling well. Here's a perfect example. Almost every Sunday night, we enjoy pizza night. Jamieson makes the crust from scratch, so it's rather healthy as pizza goes. It's the sauce that needs some vigilance. To just grab any old pizza sauce equals a lot of corn syrup and the always-mysterious "natural flavor" or "spices." Who knows what that really means. So, if you aren't going to make everything from scratch, and honestly, no one really is, the wise choice is to search for the brands that have the fewest ingredients. Ideally, those ingredients should be really easy to pronounce. This Cento pizza sauce, which I found at Mariano's, is a perfect example of what I want to see on a label. This is exactly what it says: "Ingredients: Water, Tomato Concentrate, Olive Oil, Sat, Basil, Black Pepper and Garlic Powder." That's it. So if I get a headache, it could be due to a sensitivity to one of those foods -- or some unrelated factor -- but it will not have anything to do with mysterious "spices." Simple.
4/14 update: Headache free! I used to have post-pizza headaches often, so choosing the right sauce may be helping.
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