Your produce can carry excrement The FDA has deemed   certain defects as harmless and allows them in the produce you buy in major   stores. Just a few examples: Cinnamon can contain up to 1 milligram of animal   excrement per pound, Berries can carry up to 4 larvae per 100 grams and canned   pineapple can pack in 20% molded fruit.

Eating healthy is expensive…very expensive Researchers   finally crunched the numbers to find out just how much more it costs to eat   healthy, versus unhealthy. The results? Shocking. Two thousand calories of junk   food will cost you about $3.52 a day. The same number of calories from nutritious   food costs you about $36 a day. The worst part is 81% of that price you’re paying   isn’t for the actual food, but for marketing, manufacturing and packaging.

You’re not entitled to knowing where your salad comes   from When it comes to fresh produce, grocers must inform you where the   food came from. But with mixed produce—like prewashed and packaged bags of “mixed   greens”—you’re not entitled to any of that information. This poses a real problem   considering the CDC named leafy greens one of the top foods to carry food borne   illnesses. But if you hear an announcement of an E. Coli outbreak in spinach   from a certain country, you have no way of knowing if that spinach made it into   your mixed green bag.

Fruits and veggies aren’t as potent as they used to be   The USDA reports that fruits and vegetables today contain significantly   fewer nutrients than they did two generations ago. Researchers examined 43 types   of produce and found an average 15% drop in iron and a 20% drop in Vitamin C.

Calorie counts aren’t always honest Out of 42   sit-down and fast-food chains analyzed, researchers found that nearly 20% of   them were under-reporting the calorie content of their food by 100 calories   or more. That’s alarming considering that regularly eating 100 more calories   than necessary could add up to a 10 lb. weight gain in just one year.