What I Look For in Every Ingredients List (And Why You Should Too)

In this episode of the Glucose Goddess show, Justine Trospe shares tips on how to understand food packaging and make informed choices at the grocery store. She emphasizes the importance of looking at the ingredient list and understanding that ingredients are ordered by weight, with sugar often hidden under different names. Trospe advises against focusing on calorie counts and instead recommends analyzing the ratio of total carbohydrates to dietary fiber in the nutrition facts, aiming for a 5:1 ratio. She also cautions against marketing tactics that promote products as healthy based on labels like "gluten-free," "vegan," or "organic," urging listeners to always check the ingredient list and nutrition label on the back of the package to make informed decisions.