Non-GMO Shopping Guide How to avoid foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) Content Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview 1 How to avoid brands made with genetically Fruits & Vegetables 3 modified organisms (GMOs) Meats, Fish & Eggs 3 Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM) of food involves the laboratory process of artificially inserting genes into the DNA of food Alternative Meat Products 3 crops or animals. The result is called a genetically modified organism or Dairy Products 4 GMO. GMOs can be engineered with genes from bacteria, viruses, in- sects, animals, or even humans. Most Americans say they would not eat Alternative Dairy Products 5 GMOs if labeled, but unlike most other industrialized countries, the U.S. Baby Foods & Infant Formula 5 does not require labeling. This Non-GMO Shopping Guide is designed to help reclaim your right to know about the foods you are buying, and help Grains, Beans & Pasta 6 you find and avoid GMO foods and ingredients. It does not cover other potentially harmful ingredients, allergens, colors or additives. Cereals & Breakfast Bars 6 Baked Goods 7 Tips for avoiding GM crops Frozen Foods 7 TIP #1: BUY ORGANIC Soups, Sauces & Canned Foods 8 Certified organic products are not allowed to contain any GMOs. There- fore, when you purchase products labeled “100% organic,” “organic,” or Condiments, Oils, Dressings & Spreads 9 “made with organic ingredients,” all ingredients in these products are not allowed to be produced from GMOs. For example, products labeled as Snack Foods 10 “made with organic ingredients” only require 70% of the ingredients to be Candy, Chocolate Products & Sweeteners 11 organic, but 100% must be non-GMO. Sodas, Juices & Other Beverages 12 TIP #2: LOOK FOR“NON-GMO” LABELS Companies may voluntarily label products as “non-GMO.” Some labels Invisible GM Ingredients 13 state “non-GMO” while others spell out “Made Without Genetically Modi- fied Ingredients.” Products that carry the Non-GMO Project Seal have Visit NonGMOShoppingGuide.com third party verification as being in compliance with Non-GMO Project for updates and additional categories. standards for GMO avoidance. Some products limit their claim to only To learn more about GMOs, consult the books Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks one particular “At-Risk” ingredient such as soy lecithin, listing it as “non- of Genetically Engineered Foods by Jeffrey M. Smith or Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering GMO.” Look for dairy products labeled ‘No rBGH or rBST,” or “artificial and the Secret Changes in Your Food by Andrew Kimbrell. Information on GMOs is also available hormone-free.” at www.CenterForFoodSafety.org and www.HealthierEating.org. Copyright February 2010 Center for Food Safety and Institute for Responsible Technology. No part of this booklet may be reproduced in any form without written permission from both parties. For large print quantities or electronic distribution requests, contact: info@ResponsibleTech- nology.org. 1 TIP #3: AVOID AT-RISK INGREDIENTS Avoid products made with any of the crops that are GM. Most GM ingredi- Fruits & Vegetables Very few fresh fruits and vegetables for sale in the U.S. are genetically ents are products made from the “Big Four:” corn, soybeans, canola, and modified. Novel products such as seedless watermelons are NOT geneti- cottonseed, used in processed foods. Some of the most common geneti- cally modified. Small amounts of zucchini, yellow crookneck squash, and cally engineered Big Four ingredients in processed foods are: sweet corn may be GM. The only commercialized GM fruit is papaya from Corn Hawaii—about half of Hawaii’s papayas are GM. » Corn flour, meal, oil, starch, gluten, and syrup » Sweeteners such as fructose, dextrose, and glucose » Modified food starch* Meat Fish & Eggs No genetically modified fish, fowl, or livestock is yet approved for human Soy consumption. However, plenty of non-organic foods are produced from » Soy flour, lecithin, protein, isolate, and isoflavone animals raised on GM feed such as grains. Look for wild rather than » Vegetable oil* and vegetable protein* farmed fish to avoid fish raised on genetically modified feed, and 100% grass-fed animals. Canola Canola oil (also called rapeseed oil) Meat & Fish: Non-GMO Cotton Cottonseed oil Organic Prarie, Tropical Traditions, Vital Choice *May be derived from other sources Eggs: Non-GMO Egg Innovations Organic Nest Fresh Organic Eggland’s Best Organic Organic Valley In addition, GM sugar beet sugar recently entered the food supply. Look Horizon Organic Pete and Jerry’s Organic Eggs for organic and non-GMO sweeteners, candy and chocolate products Land O’Lakes Organic Wilcox Farms Organic made with 100% cane sugar, evaporated cane juice or organic sugar, to avoid GM beet sugar. Sugar Anything not listed as 100% cane sugar Alternative Meat Products Many alternative meat products are processed and include TIP #4: BUY PRODUCTS LISTED IN THIS SHOPPING GUIDE ingredients that can be genetically engineered, so give the Keep this Guide with you whenever you shop. Store it inside your reus- ingredient lists close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk able shopping bag, put into your coupon holder or check book, or leave ingredients, especially soy. it in your car. Non-GMO 365 Brand (Whole Foods)* The Simple Soyman BOLD with an asterisk * denotes brands with products enrolled in the Non-GMO Project’s Amy’s Vitasoy third party GMO Avoidance Verification Program. Bountiful Wildwood Eco Vegan White Wave Small Planet Tofu Woodstock Farms* Learn more at: www.NonGMOProject.org/consumers Sunshine Burger May contain GMO ingredients Boca, unless organic (Kraft) Morningstar Farms, unless organic soy Gardenburger line (Kellogg) 2 3 Dairy Products Alternative Dairy Products Some U.S. dairy farms inject the genetically engineered hormone rbGH, Non-GMO Belsoy Sun Soy also called rbST, into their cows to boost milk production. Organic dairy EdenSoy* Stonyfield Farm O’Soy products are rbGH-free and do not use GM grains as feed. Products Imagine Foods/Soy Dream Tofutti Lisanatti VitaSoy/Nasoya with label that indicates cows free of rbGH or rbST may come from cows Nancy’s Cultured Soy* WestSoy fed GM feed. Many alternative dairy products are made from soybeans Nancy’s Organic Cultured Soy* WholeSoy* and may contain GM materials. Organic Valley Soy* Wildwood Pacific Natural Foods* Yves The Good Slice Silk Zen Don So Delicious Dairy Products: Non-GMO Alta Dena Organics Radiance Dairy Butterworks Farm Safeway Organic Brand May contain GMO ingredients Harmony Hills Dairy Seven Stars Farm* 8th Continent Horizon Organic Straus Family Creamery* Morningland Dairy Stonyfield Farm Nancy’s Organic Dairy* Wisconsin Organics Natural by Nature Woodstock Farms* Organic Valley Baby Foods & Infant Formula Produced Without rbGH National Milk or soy protein is the basis of most infant formulas. The secret Alta Dena Grafton Village Cheese ingredients in these products are often soy or milk from cows injected Belgioioso Cheese Inc. Great Hill Dairy with rbGH. Many brands also add GMO-derived corn syrup, corn syrup Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Lifetime Dairy Brown Cow Farm Nancy’s Natural Dairy solids, or soy lecithin. Crowley Cheese of Vermont Roth Kase USA Dannon Walmart store brand Non-GMO Franklin County Cheese Yoplait Baby’s Only Organic PediaSmart Bella Baby Plum Organics Earth’s Best Tastybaby Gerber Wildwood May contain GMO ingredients HapyBaby White Wave Alta Colombo (General Mills) Parmalat Mom Made Meals Woodstock Farms* Kemps , aside from “Select” brand Sorrento Organic Baby* Land O’ Lakes The Country’s Best Yoghurt May contain GMO ingredients Beech-Nut Nestlé Enfamil Similac/Isomil Good Start For regional lists of rbGH-free sources of Dairy Products: NonGMOShoppingGuide.com BOLD with an asterisk * denotes brands with products enrolled in the Non-GMO Project’s third party GMO Avoidance Verification Program. Learn more at: www.NonGMOProject.org/consumers 4 5 Grains, Beans & Pasta Baked Goods Other than corn, no GM grains are sold on the market. Look for 100-per- While baking ingredients such as wheat flour, rice, kamut, and oats cent wheat pasta, couscous, rice, quinoa, oats, barley, sorghum, and are not genetically modified, many packaged breads and bakery items dried beans (except soybeans). contain other GMO ingredients such as corn syrup. Non-GMO Non-GMO Annie’s * Lundberg Family Farms* Arrowhead Mills, organic French Meadow Bob’s Red Mill, organic Organic Planet* Bakery on Main Natural Ovens Bakery, organic Eden* Sunridge Farms Berlin Natural Bakery* Nature’s Path* Field Day* Vita-Spelt pasta Bob’s Red Mill, organic Rudi’s Organic Bakery Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods Rumford Baking Powder Kamut Dr Oetker Organics Tumaros* Packaged Meals May Contain GMO Ingredients Non-GMO Aunt Jemima (Pinnacle Foods) Duncan Hines (Pinnacle Foods) Betty Crocker (General Mills) Hungry Jack (Smucker’s) Amy’s Ian’s Natural Foods Calumet Baking Powder (Kraft) Pillsbury (Smucker’s) Annie’s* Lotus Foods Casbah (Hain-Celestial) Lundberg Farms Rice Sensations* Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods Rising Moon* Fantastic Foods* Seeds of Change organic meals Frozen Foods May Contain GMO Ingredients Many frozen foods are highly processed. Keep an eye out for the Big Betty Crocker (General Mills) Lipton meal packets (Unilever) Knorr (Unilever) Near East (Quaker) Four at-risk ingredients and stay away from frozen foods that contain Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Pasta Roni & Rice-A-Roni meals(Quaker) them, unless they are marked organic or