What T To Eat By Marion Nestle

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I tend to be oblivious with most things that involve reading, always missing the fine print. When I go into the grocery store I usually look for the food that looks the most appetizing and buy it, I never really read the labels on these items. The food item that caught my eye in the readings were eggs. As a vegetarian, eggs are an important part of my daily diet, but you would think if they were so important, I would know the difference between a Grade A egg and a Grade AA egg. How are these eggs rated? Why are these eggs rated? Who rates the eggs? These are all the types of questions that go through my head now when I’m trying to purchase a dozen eggs. Labels are important because they are required to tell the buyer everything about that product or else that company is probably going to suffer the consequences. Before reading What …show more content…
According to his book, eggs contain more cholesterol than any other food and they are 35% of the total cholesterol intake

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