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NON-GMO SHOPPING GUIDE FRUITS & VEGETABLES BABY FOODS & INFANT FORMULA Very few fresh fruits and vegetables for sale in the U.S. are genetically Milk or soy protein is the basis of most infant formulas. The secret ingredients This Non-GMO Shopping Guide is designed to help reclaim your right to modified. Novel products such as seedless watermelons are NOT genetically in these products are often soy or milk from cows injected with rbGH. Many know about the foods you are buying, and help you find and avoid GMO brands also add GMO-derived corn syrup, corn syrup solids, or soy lecithin. foods and ingredients. It does not cover other potentially harmful modified. Small amounts of zucchini, yellow crookneck squash, and sweet ingredients, allergens, colors or additives. corn may be GM. The only commercialized GM fruit is papaya from Hawaii— Non-GMO May contain GMO ingredients about half of Hawaii’s papayas are GM. Baby’s Only, certified organic Beech-Nut This guide was created by the Institute for Responsible Technology DAIRY & ALTERNATIVE DAIRY PRODUCTS Earth’s Best Enfamil in partnership with Gerber products Good Start the Center for Food Safety. Some U.S. dairy farms inject the genetically engineered hormone rbGH, also called rbST, into their cows to boost milk production. HAPPYBABY Nestlé HOW TO AVOID BRANDS MADE WITH Organic dairy products are rbGH-free and do not use GM grains as feed. Mom Made Meals Similac/Isomil GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMOs) Products with a label that indicates cows free of rbGH or rbST may come from Organic Baby* Plum Organics Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM) of food involves cows fed GM feed. Many alternative dairy products are made from soybeans the laboratory process of artificially inserting genes into the DNA of food and may contain GM materials. Tastybaby crops or animals. The result is called a genetically modified organism or Dairy Products: Non-GMO GMO. GMOs can be engineered with genes from bacteria, viruses, insects, Certified Organic Organic Valley BAKED GOODS animals, or even humans. Most Americans say they would not eat GMOs While baking ingredients such as wheat flour, rice, kamut, and oats are not if labeled, but unlike most other industrialized countries, the U.S. does Alta Dena Organics Radiance Dairy not require labeling. Butterworks Farm Safeway Organic Brand genetically modified, many packaged breads and bakery items contain other Harmony Hills Dairy Seven Stars Farm* GMO ingredients such as corn syrup. TIPS FOR AVOIDING GM CROPS Horizon Organic Straus Family Creamery* Non-GMO Rumford Baking Powder Morningland Dairy Stonyfield Farm Arrowhead Mills (organic) Tumaros* TIP #1: BUY ORGANIC Certified organic products are not Nancy’s Organic Dairy* Wisconsin Organics Bakery on Main allowed to contain any GMOs. Woodstock Farms* May Contain GMO Ingredients Natural by Nature Berlin Natural Bakery* TIP #2: LOOK FOR “NON-GMO” LABELS Aunt Jemima (Pinnacle Foods) Produced Without rbGH National Bob’s Red Mill (organic line) Betty Crocker (General Mills) TIP #3: AVOID AT-RISK INGREDIENTS Most GM ingredients Alta Dena Grafton Village Cheese Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods Calumet Baking Powder (Kraft) are products made from the “Big Four:” corn, soybeans, canola, and cot- Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Great Hill Dairy Dr Oetker Organics Duncan Hines (Pinnacle Foods) Brown Cow Farm Lifetime Dairy tonseed, used in processed foods. See the list of invisible ingredients in French Meadow Hungry Jack (Smucker’s) Crowley Cheese of Vermont Nancy’s Natural Dairy this Guide. Natural Ovens Bakery (organic) Pillsbury (Smucker’s) Dannon Walmart store brand Nature’s Path* TIP #4: BUY PRODUCTS LISTED IN THIS GUIDE Franklin County Cheese Yoplait Rudi’s Organic Bakery SPECIAL NOTE: An asterisk * denotes brands with products enrolled in the West Coast Joseph Farms Cheese Non-GMO Project’s third party Product Verification Program. Alpenrose Dairy Sunshine Dairy Foods Learn more at: nongmoproject.org FROZEN FOODS Berkeley Farms Tillamook Cheese Many frozen foods are highly processed. Keep an eye out for the Big Four at-risk MEAT, FISH & EGGS Clover Stornetta Farms Wilcox Family Farms ingredients and stay away from frozen foods that contain them, unless they are No genetically modified fish, fowl, or livestock is yet approved for marked organic or non-GM. human consumption. However, plenty of non-organic foods are pro- Midwest and Gulf States Erivan Dairy Yogurt duced from animals raised on GM feed such as grains. Look for wild Anderson Erikson Promised Land Dairy Non-GMO Celeste (Pinnacle Foods) rather than farmed fish to avoid fish raised on genetically modified Chippewa Valley Cheese Westby Cooperative Creamery A.C. LaRocco Eggo Waffles (Kellogg)Gardenburger feed, and 100% grass-fed animals. Amy’s Kitchen Green Giant (General Mills) East Coast Erivan Dairy Yogurt Cascadian Farms Healthy Choice (ConAgra) Meat & Fish: Non-GMO Blythedale Farm Cheese Farmland Dairies Cedarlane Kid’s Cuisine (ConAgra) Organic Prarie, Tropical Traditions, Vital Choice Crescent Creamery Oakhurst Dairy Helen’s Kitchen Lean Cuisine (Nestle) Eggs: Non-GMO Derle Farms, “no rbST” label only Wilcox Dairy, rbST-free dairy line only Nest Fresh Organic Ian’s Natural Foods Marie Callender’s (ConAgra) Egg Innovations Organic Organic Valley May contain GMO ingredients Linda McCartney Morningstar Farms, unless Eggland’s Best Organic Pete and Jerry’s Organic Eggs Colombo (General Mills) Parmalat Mom Made Meals organic soy line (Kellogg) Horizon Organic Wilcox Farms Organic Land O’Lakes Organic Kemps , aside from “Select” brand Sorrento Rising Moon* Rosetto Frozen Pasta (Nestle) Land O’ Lakes The Country’s Best Yoghurt The Simple Soyman Stouffer’s (Nestle) Woodstock Farms* Swanson (Campbell’s) ALTERNATIVE MEAT PRODUCTS Alternative Dairy Products Tombstone (Kraft) Many alternative meat products are processed and include ingredients Non-GMO Sun Soy May Contain GMO Ingredients Totino’s (Smucker’s) that can be genetically engineered, so give the ingredient lists close Belsoy Stonyfield Farm O’Soy Boca, unless organic (Kraft) Voila! (Birds Eye/Unilever) attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk ingredients, especially soy. EdenSoy* Tofutti Non-GMO Wildwood Imagine Foods/Soy Dream VitaSoy/Nasoya NonGMOShoppingGuide.com 365 Brand (Whole Foods) White Wave Nancy’s Cultured Soy* WestSoy Amy’s Woodstock Farms* Information on GMOs is also available at www.centerforfoodsafety.org and Nancy’s Organic Cultured Soy* WholeSoy* www.HealthierEating.org. Bountiful Bean May contain GMO ingredents Organic Valley Soy* Yves The Good Slice Small Planet Tofu Boca, unless organic (Kraft) Zen Don Copyright 2009 Center for Food Safety and Institute for Responsible Technology. Sunshine Burger Gardenburger Pacific Soy* No part of this booklet may be reproduced in any form without written permis- The Simple Soyman Morningstar Farms, unless Silk May contain GMO ingredients sion from both parties. For large print quantities or electronic distribution Vitasoy organic soy line (Kellogg) Soy Delicious 8th Continent requests, contact: [email protected] Chocolate: Non-GMO May Contain GMO Ingredients SOUPS, SAUCES & CANNED FOODS CONDIMENTS, OILS, DRESSINGS Ghirardelli Chocolate Many soups and sauces are highly processed, so give the ingredient Chocolove Endangered Species* Hershey’s lists close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk ingredients. & SPREADS Unless labeled explicitly, corn, soybean, cottonseed, and canola oils prob- Green & Black’s Organic Nestlé (Crunch, Kit Kat, Smarties) Non-GMO May Contain GMO Ingredients ably contain genetically modified products. Choose pure olive, coconut, Kopali Organics Soups: Toblerone (Kraft) Amy’s Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice sesame, sunflower, safflower, almond, grapeseed, and peanut oils. Also Lindt Chocolate Newman’s Own Fantastic Foods* (ConAgra) choose preserves, jams, and jellies with cane sugar, not corn syrup. Nonuttin’ Campbell’s (Healthy Request, Health Valley/Westbrae Non-GMO Woodstock Farms (organic)* Imagine Natural Chunky, Simply Home, Annie’s* SushiSonic Asian Condiments* Natural/Hain Pepperidge Farm) Bountiful Bean The Simple Soyman ShariAnn’s Organics Hormel products Bragg’s liquid amino Tropical Traditions INVISIBLE GM INGREDIENTS Walnut Acres Certified Organic Progresso Soups (General Mills) Carrington Farms Flax Seed Vegan by Nature Buttery Spreads Processed foods often have hidden GM sources (unless they are organic or Crofter’s Organic Vigoa Cuisine declared non-GMO). The following are ingredients that may be made from Drew’s salad dressing Wholemato May Contain GMO Ingredients GMOs. Sauces/Salsas: Non-GMO Eden* Woodstock Farms* Bertolli (Unilever) Amy’s Emerald Cove Aspartame glycerol monooleate Phenylalanine Annie’s* Chi-Chi’s (Hormel) baking powder glycine phytic acid Emerald Valley Kitchen May Contain GMO Ingredients canola oil (rapeseed) hemicellulose protein isolate Eden* Classico (Heinz) Emperor’s Kitchen* Crisco (Smucker’s) caramel color high fructose corn shoyu Del Monte Emerald Valley Kitchen Field Day* Del Monte cellulose syrup (HFCS) sorbitol Field Day* Healthy Choice (ConAgra) Follow Your Heart* citric acid hydrogenated starch soy flour Heinz cobalamin (Vit. B12) hydrolyzed vegetable soy isolates Green Mountain Gringo* Hunt’s (ConAgra) Harvest Moon Mushrooms Hellman’s (Unilever) colorose protein soy lecithin Muir Glen Organic Old El Paso (General Mills) Ian’s Natural Foods Kraft condiments and dressings condensed milk inositol soy milk I.M. Health SoyNut Butters confectioners sugar