You've Been Lied to About This

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that the “rounding rule” allows manufacturers to hide ingredients in your food if it’s less than 500 mg per serving size? There are also over 200 different words for sugar! These misleading practices could mean you’re consuming dangerous ingredients without knowing.

Incidental additives are ingredients that have a function that’s not related to texture, flavor, or a preservative. If these ingredients are less than 5% of the finished product, they don’t have to list it on the label.

Maltodextrin is a common incidental ingredient. It’s a carbohydrate that acts more like sugar in the body and has a glycemic index of 180 compared to table sugar, which is only 74.

Hexane is one of the most dangerous ingredients in food. Its residue is often found in products containing soy protein isolates, which are commonly added to bars, veggie burgers, and plant-based products. Hexane is a chemical solvent used to extract this protein from the soybean.

The CDC classifies hexane as a neurotoxin, and the EPA considers it hazardous air pollution. However, no regulatory body measures the amount of hexane in food.

Sugar-free products can often spike your blood sugar because of other hidden ingredients. Always check the ingredient list and pay attention to the following products and labels:

•No added sugar

•Sugar-free products with carbohydrates

•Sugar-free gum

•Corn syrup solids

•Sugar-free, non-dairy creamers

Iodine turns blue when combined with starch. Add a drop or two of iodine to a glass of water, and watch products with hidden starch turn blue or purple when you mix them in!

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0:00.0	You know, you've been lied to about your food for a very long time. You see this right here?
0:05.2	This is a 450 milligram tablet. What if I were to tell you that this is actually zero milligrams?
0:13.0	Of course, you're looking at it, but it really doesn't exist. These aren't the droids you're looking for.
0:17.1	What would you say? I'm crazy, right? Well, this is a loophole that manufactured companies use to hide ingredients in your food. And it's called the rounding rule. If something is less than 500 milligrams per serving size, they don't have to list it in the nutrition facts. Let me explain. Let's say a product has less than 500 milligrams
0:38.4	of trans fats, okay, per serving size. Manufacturing companies can round down to zero and even say
0:46.9	in the label that it has zero trans fats. The same thing with MSG. It's called the rounding down
0:52.3	trick, okay? And it blows my mind how they got away with
0:55.8	getting that passed because 500 milligrams is not zero. You see, if something says sugar-free,
1:02.2	fat-free, sodium-free, the chances of you reading the ingredients are pretty slim. So this is just
1:07.3	another reason why you need to start reading the ingredients. And unfortunately, when we talk
1:10.8	about sugar, there could be a lot of different terms for sugar.
1:13.3	There's actually over 200 different words for sugar.
1:15.8	But the thing that really kind of gets me is something called incidental additives.
1:21.1	Ingredients that have a different function that's not related to texture, flavor, or preservative. Or they have a function of extracting
1:31.2	certain things from food. They're called solvents. If that ingredient is less than 5% of the finished
1:38.9	product, they don't have to declare it on the label. Now, this could be dextrin, which is a carbohydrate,
1:47.1	but it acts more like a sugar. On the glycemic index, maltodextrin can go up to 180. I mean,
1:54.7	table sugar is like 74. So even though it's classified as a complex carbohydrate, it acts way more like a sugar.
2:01.7	Sometime multodextrin is just a filler.
2:03.8	So a lot of vitamins have this hidden multidextrin, and you have no idea if it's in there.
2:08.8	At the end of this video, I will explain how to identify multodextrin.
2:12.5	But I think the most dangerous thing that's hidden in your food is hexane. There's hexane residues in
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