A Rose is a Rose but Orange Juice is...

Here is an email I got from my son this morning. 

                                    "I just bought Orange Juice and found something interesting:

                                     It is Tropicana 100% Juice. Listed as ingredients are; 100% pure orange juice from concentrate and natural flavors*. Note the asterisk. In the fine print the asterisk is defined as “Ingredient not found in regular orange juice”. Interesting. Perhaps it should really be called ‘Tropicana 99% Juice and 1% Mystery Ingredient’. Probably wouldn’t be good for sales."

From potato chips to ice cream, the ingredient "natural flavor" is found in just about everything.  But in "100% pure orange juice" what is the "natural flavor" not found in regular orange juice.  The more of this I find, the more I read ingredients and I must say that the number of foods I will buy from the grocery store has dramatically diminished. I have thought for a long time that the FDA was not really on my side, but this is really insulting.  How can they allow a company to say 100% pure when it is not at all true?

GOOD ONES:   I love this broth which is very flavorful and has no unnamed ingredients.  I have used it as a base for many soups as well as fish chowder.

The other one today is a sauce packet for when you are not into doing it al yourself which in this little spaceship, I only have room for a very small pantry.  It is Indian or Thai and really wonderful on rice, grains and veggies as well as noodle dishes.

Today for lunch I baked some potatoes, sweet potatoes and cauliflower seasoned with garlic, tarragon, ginger and sesame seeds.  The potatoes, brought from Maine, were grown from a local farmer.  The sweet potatoes and cauliflower were organic from California.  Salt, garlic, olive oil, tarragon (from my own pot that grows on our deck in the summertime).  These were the natural ingredients.

I am tired of reading articles of what is toxic about this "food" and what is bad about that "food".   I just want to focus on the goodness of real true honest to goodness foods that are simply what they say they are.  If I can do it in our motorhome, I can do it anywhere and so can you.

Here is my entire kitchen.