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Introduction & Overview 1 How to avoid brands made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) Fruits & Vegetables 3 Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM) is the Meats, Fish & Eggs 3 laboratory process of artificially manipulating or inserting Alternative Meat Products 3 genes into the DNA of food crops or animals. The result is called a genetically modified organism or GMO. GMOs can be Products 4 engineered with genes from bacteria, viruses, insects, animals Alternative Dairy Products 5 or even humans. Most Americans say they would not eat GMOs if labeled, but unlike most other industrialized countries, the Baby Foods & Infant Formula 5 U.S. does not require labeling. Grains, Beans & Pasta 6 This Non-GMO Shopping Guide is designed to help reclaim Cereals & Breakfast Bars 6 your right to know about the foods you are buying, and help Baked Goods 7 you find and avoid GMO foods and ingredients. Frozen Foods 7 Tips for avoiding GM crops Soups, Sauces & Canned Foods 8 ❧ TIP #1: BUY ORGANIC Condiments, Oils, Dressings & Spreads 9 Certified organic products are not allowed to contain any Snack Foods 10 GMOs. Therefore, when you purchase products labeled “100% Candy, Chocolate Products & Sweeteners 11 organic,” “organic,” or “made with organic” ingredients, all ingredients in these products are not allowed to be GMO. (For Sodas, Juices & Other Beverages 12 example, products labeled as “made with organic ingredi- Invisible GM Ingredients 13 ents” only require 70% of the ingredients to be organic, but 100% must be non-GMO.) To learn more about GMOs, consult the books Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods by Jeffrey M. ❧ TIP #2: LOOK FOR“NON-GMO” LABELS Smith or Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food by Andrew Kimbrell. Information on GMOs is also available Companies may voluntarily label products as “non-GMO.” at www.centerforfoodsafety.org and www.HealthierEating.org. Some labels state “non-GMO” while others spell out “Made Copyright 2008 Center for Food Safety and Institute for Responsible Without Genetically Modified Ingredients.” Some products Technology. No part of this booklet may be reproduced in any form with- limit their claim to only one particular “At-Risk” ingredient out written permission from both parties. such as soy , listing it as “non-GMO.”

1 ❧ TIP #3: AVOID AT-RISK INGREDIENTS FRUITS & VEGETABLES Avoid products made with any of the crops that are GM. Most Very few fresh fruits and vegetables for sale in the U.S. are GM ingredients are products made from the “Big Four:” corn, genetically modified. Novel products such as seedless water- , canola, and cottonseed, used in processed foods. melons are NOT genetically modified. Small amounts of zuc- chini, yellow crookneck squash and sweet corn may be GM. Some of the most common genetically engineered Big Four The only commercialized GM fruit is papaya from Hawaii— ingredients in processed foods are: about half of Hawaii’s papayas are GM. Corn ■ Corn flour, meal, oil, starch, gluten, and syrup MEAT, FISH & EGGS ■ Sweeteners such as fructose, dextrose, and glucose No genetically modified fish, fowl, or livestock is yet approved ■ Modified food starch* for human consumption. However, plenty of non-organic foods are produced from animals raised on GM feed such as grains. Soy Look for wild rather than farmed fish to avoid fish raised on ■ Soy flour, lecithin, protein, isolate, and isoflavone genetically modified feed, and 100% grass-fed animals. ■ Vegetable oil* and vegetable protein* Eggs: Non-GMO Nest Fresh Organic Canola Canola oil (also called rapeseed oil) Egg Innovations Organic Organic Valley Eggland’s Best Organic Pete and Jerry’s Organic Eggs Cotton Cottonseed oil Land O’Lakes Organic Wilcox Farms Organic *May be derived from other sources ALTERNATIVE MEAT PRODUCTS In addition, GM sugar beets may soon enter the food supply. Many alternative meat products are processed and include To avoid products containing GM beet sugar, look for products ingredients that can be genetically engineered, so give the labeled as containing 100% cane sugar, evaporated cane ingredient lists close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk juice, or products made with organic sugar. ingredients, especially soy. ❧ TIP #4: BUY PRODUCTS LISTED IN THIS Non-GMO May contain GMO ingredients SHOPPING GUIDE 365 Brand (Whole Foods) Boca, unless labeled organic (Kraft) Amy’s Kitchen Keep this Guide with you whenever you shop. Store it inside Sunshine Burger , Morningstar Farms your reusable shopping bag, put into your coupon holder or Natural Touch, unless labeled organic check book, or leave it in your car. Wildwood (Kellogg) White Wave

2 3 DAIRY PRODUCTS & May contain GMO ingredients Colombo (General Mills) Land O’ Lakes ALTERNATIVE DAIRY PRODUCTS Dannon Parmalat Some U.S. dairy farms inject the genetically engineered hor- Kemps (aside from Sorrento mone rbGH, also called rbST, into their cows to boost milk “Select” brand) Yoplait (General Mills) production—so be sure to purchase products with a label that Alternative Dairy Products indicates cows free of rbGH or rbST. Many alternative dairy prod- ucts are made from soybeans and may contain GM materials. Non-GMO Stonyfield Farm O’Soy Belsoy Dairy Products: Non-GMO EdenSoy VitaSoy/Nasoya WestSoy Certified Organic West Coast Imagine Foods/Soy Dream Nancy’s Cultured Soy WholeSoy Alta Dena Organics Alpenrose Dairy Pacific Soy Yves The Good Slice Butterworks Farm Berkeley Farms Zen Don Harmony Hills Dairy Clover Stornetta Farms Soy Delicious Horizon Organic Joseph Farms Cheese May contain GMO Sun Soy Morningland Dairy Sunshine Dairy Foods ingredients Natural by Nature Tillamook Cheese Organic Valley Dairy Wilcox Family Farms Radiance Dairy Midwest and Gulf States Safeway Organic Brand Chippewa Valley Cheese Seven Stars Farm Erivan Dairy Yogurt Straus Family Creamery Promised Land Dairy BABY FOODS & INFANT FORMULA Stonyfield Farm Westby Cooperative Creamery Wisconsin Organics Milk or is the basis of most infant formulas. The East Coast Produced Without rbGH secret ingredients in these products are often soy or milk from Blythedale Farm Cheese National cows injected with rbGH. Many brands also add GMO-derived Crescent Creamery corn syrup, corn syrup solids, or soy lecithin. Alta Dena Derle Farms (milk with Ben & Jerry’s “no rbST” label only) Non-GMO May contain GMO Brown Cow Farm Erivan Dairy Yogurt Baby’s Only ingredients Crowley Cheese of Vermont Farmland (certified organic products) Beech-Nut Franklin County Cheese Oakhurst Dairy Earth’s Best Enfamil Grafton Village Cheese Wilcox Dairy (rbST-free Gerber products Good Start Great Hill Dairy dairy line only) Lifetime Dairy Organic Baby Nestlé Similac/Isomil

4 5 GRAINS, BEANS & PASTA BAKED GOODS Other than corn, no GM grains are sold on the market. Look for While baking ingredients such as wheat flour, rice, kamut, and 100-percent wheat pasta, couscous, rice, quinoa, oats, barley, oats are not genetically modified, many packaged breads and sorghum, and dried beans (except soybeans). bakery items contain other GMO ingredients such as corn syrup.

Non-GMO Lundberg Farms Rice Sensations Non-GMO May Contain GMO Ingredients Annie’s Natural Pasta Organic Planet Arrowhead Mills (organic line) Bob’s Red Mill (organic line) Seeds of Change certified Bakery on Main Aunt Jemima (Pinnacle Foods) Eden certified organic grains organic boxed meals Bob’s Red Mill (organic line) Betty Crocker (General Mills) Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods Calumet Baking Powder (Kraft) Vita-Spelt pasta May Contain GMO Eden Organics Duncan Hines (Pinnacle Foods) Ingredients Packaged Meals Rumford Baking Powder Hungry Jack (Smucker’s) Betty Crocker meals Pillsbury (Smucker’s) Non-GMO (General Mills) Amy’s Kitchen Knorr (Unilever) Annie’s Homegrown certified Kraft Macaroni & Cheese meals FROZEN FOODS organic macaroni & cheese Lipton meal packets (Unilever) Many frozen foods are highly processed. Keep an eye out for the Casbah (Hain-Celestial) Near East (Quaker) Big Four at-risk ingredients and stay away from frozen foods Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods Pasta Roni and Rice-A-Roni that contain them, unless they are marked organic or non-GM. Fantastic Foods meals (Quaker) Lotus Foods Non-GMO Green Giant frozen meals A.C. LaRocco (General Mills) CEREALS & BREAKFAST BARS Amy’s Kitchen Healthy Choice (ConAgra) Kid’s Cuisine (ConAgra) Cereals and breakfast bars are very likely to include GMO ingre- Barbara’s Certified Organic Cascadian Farms Organic frozen Lean Cuisine (Nestle) dients, because they are often made with corn and soy products. meals and vegetables Marie Callender’s (ConAgra) Non-GMO: May Contain GMO Cedarlane Morningstar Farms, Morningstar Farms Natural Touch, unless Barbara’s (organic line) Ingredients Linda McCartney frozen meals labeled organic (Kellogg) Cascadian Farms General Mills May Contain GMO Rosetto Frozen Pasta (Nestle) EnviroKidz Kellogg Ingredients Stouffer’s (Nestle) Health Valley (organic line) Post (Kraft) Boca, unless labeled organic Swanson (Campbell’s) Nature’s Path Quaker (Kraft) Tombstone (Kraft) Omega Smart Bars Celeste (Pinnacle Foods) Totino’s (Smucker’s) Peace Cereal Organic Eggo Waffles (Kellogg) Voila! (Birds Eye/Unilever) Gardenburger

6 7 SOUPS, SAUCES & CANNED FOODS Canned Food Many soups and sauces are highly processed and include Non-GMO May Contain GMO ingredients that can be genetically modified, so give the Amy’s Kitchen Ingredients Annie’s Natural ingredient lists close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk Chef Boyardee ShariAnn’s certified organic beans ingredients. Dinty Moore, Stagg, Hormel Westbrae certified organic beans (Hormel) Yves Veggie Cuisine Franco-American (Campbell’s) May Contain GMO Soups (Hain Celestial) Ingredients Non-GMO Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice Amy’s Soups (ConAgra) CONDIMENTS, OILS, DRESSINGS Fantastic Foods Campbell’s products (including & SPREADS Health Valley/Westbrae Healthy Request, Chunky, Imagine Natural Simply Home, and Pepperidge Unless labeled explicitly, corn, , cottonseed, and Natural/Hain Farm) canola oils probably contain genetically modified products. ShariAnn’s Organics Hormel products Choose pure olive, coconut, sesame, sunflower, safflower, Walnut Acres certified organic Progresso products almond, grapeseed and peanut oils. Also choose preserves, (General Mills) jams, and jellies with cane sugar, not corn syrup.

Sauces/Salsas May Contain GMO Non-GMO May Contain GMO Ingredients Ingredients Non-GMO Annie’s Bertolli (Unilever) Bragg’s liquid amino Crisco (Smucker’s) Annie’s Natural Chi-Chi’s (Hormel) Drew’s salad dressing Del Monte Green Mountain Gringo & Classico (Heinz) Emerald Cove Heinz certified-organic salsa Del Monte Emperor’s Kitchen Hellman’s (Unilever) Muir Glen Organic pasta sauce Healthy Choice (ConAgra) Harvest Moon Mushrooms Kraft condiments and dressings & salsa Hunt’s (ConAgra) I.M. Health SoyNut Butters Mazola Seeds of Change certified- Old El Paso (General Mills) Maranatha Nut Butters Pam (ConAgra) organic pasta sauce Pace (Campbell’s) Master Peter Pan (ConAgra) Walnut Acres certified-organic Prego (Campbell’s) Muir Glen organic Skippy (Unilever) pasta sauce Ragu (Unilever) tomato ketchup Smucker’s (except their “Simply Nasoya 100% Fruit” line of preserves) Spectrum oils and dressings Wesson (ConAgra) SushiSonic Asian Condiments Wish-Bone (Unilever) Vegan by Nature Buttery Spreads Vigoa Cuisine

8 9 SNACK FOODS CANDY, CHOCOLATE PRODUCTS Many snack foods contain ingredients, especially oils, derived & SWEETENERS from the Big Four at-risk crops. Look for snacks made from Many sweeteners, and products like candy and chocolate that wheat, rice, or oats, and ones that use sunflower or safflower contain them, can come from GMO sources. Look for organic oils. There is no GM popcorn on the market, nor is there blue and non-GMO sweeteners, candy and chocolate products or white GM corn. made with 100% cane sugar, evaporated cane juice or organ- Snacks May Contain GMO ic sugar to avoid GM beet sugar, and watch out for soy lecithin Ingredients in chocolates, and corn syrup in candies. Non-GMO FritoLay (Lay’s, Ruffles, Doritos, Barbara’s (organic line) The sweetener aspartame is derived from GM microorganisms. Cheetos, Tostitos) Bearitos/Little Bear Organics It is also referred to as NutraSweet® and Equal® and is found Hostess Products (Hain Celestial) (Interstate Brands) in over 6,000 products, including soft , gum, candy, Garden of Eatin’ Keebler (Kellogg’s) desserts, yogurt, tabletop sweeteners, and some pharmaceu- Hain Pure Snax/Hain Pure Foods Kraft (Nabisco, Nilla Wafers, ticals such as vitamins and sugar-free cough drops. Health Valley Oreos, Ritz, Nutter Butter, Kettle Foods Chocolate Honey Maid, SnackWells, Nature’s Path Organic Teddy Grahams, Wheat Non-GMO May Contain GMO Namaste Foods Thins, Triscuit) Chocolove Ingredients Newman’s Own Organics & Pepperidge Farm (Campbell’s) Endangered Species Chocolate Hershey’s Newman’s Own Pringles Ghirardelli Chocolate Nestlé (Crunch, Kit Kat, Smarties) (except salad dressing) Quaker Oats Company Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate Toblerone (Kraft) Newman’s Own Candy Energy Bars May Contain GMO Non-GMO May Contain GMO Ingredients Jelly Belly Ingredients Non-GMO Balance Bar Reed’s Crystallized Ginger Hershey’s Clif Bar Nature Valley snack bars and candy (certified organic) Lifesaver (Kraft) Genisoy Bars granola bars (General Mills) St. Claire Organic Nestlé Luna Bar Nabisco Bars (Kraft) Lara Bar Sweetners PowerBar (Nestle) Nutiva Macrobars Quaker Granola Bars Non-GMO Odwalla Sweet Cloud Optimum Energy Bar Weli by Nature’s Path Organic 10 11 SODAS, JUICES INVISIBLE GM INGREDIENTS & OTHER BEVERAGES Processed foods often have hidden GM sources (unless they are organic or declared non-GMO). The following are ingredi- Most juices are made from GMO-free fruit (avoid papaya ents that may be made from GMOs. though, as it could be GMO), but the prevalence of corn-based sweeteners—e.g. high-fructose corn syrup—in fruit juices is cause for concern. Similarly, many sodas are primarily com- prised of water and corn syrup. Look for 100-percent juice Aspartame glycerin milo starch blends. baking powder glycerol modified starch caramel color glycerol monosodium Non-GMO May Contain GMO cellulose monooleate glutamate MSG After the Fall organic juices Ingredients citric acid glycine oleic acid Big Island Organics Blue Sky Natural Beverage cobalamin hemicellulose Phenylalanine Blue Sky Organic soda Company (Vitamin B12) high fructose phytic acid Cascadian Farm Coca-Cola (Fruitopia, Minute corn gluten corn syrup sorbitol Crofters Organic Maid, Hi-C, NESTEA) corn masa (HFCS) soy flour Eden Hansen Beverage Company corn oil hydrogenated soy isolates starch Haiku Organic Japanese Teas Hawaiian Punch corn syrup soy lecithin hydrolyzed veg- Knudsen organic juices and (Procter and Gamble) cornmeal soy protein spritzers (Smucker’s) Kraft (Country Time, Kool-Aid, etable protein cornstarch starch Odwalla Crystal Light, Capri Sun, Tang) inositol cyclodextrin stearic acid One World organic black teas Libby’s (Nestlé) invert sugar cystein inverse syrup Quinoa Gold Ocean Spray (colorose or Santa Cruz Organic (Smucker’s) Pepsi (Tropicana, Frappuccino, dextrin inversol) Sea2o Organic Energy Gatorade, SoBe, Dole) dextrose tamari threonine Teeccino Herbal Caffe Sunny Delight (Procter and diacetyl isoflavones tocopherols Walnut Acres Organic Juices Gamble) diglyceride lactic acid (Vitamin E) fructose lecithin SPECIAL NOTE: This guide was compiled based on company fructose leucine trehalose statements, not genetic testing. Any product labeled as Non- (crystalline) lysine triglyceride GMO indicates that it’s manufacturing process is designed to glucose malitol vegetable fat avoid GMOs, but consumers should be aware that GM contam- glutamate maltodextrin vegetable oil ination is possible due to natural pollen movement, weather glutamic acid maltose Vitamin B12 events, seed contamination, or human error. Hence there is gluten mannitol Vitamin E no guarantee such products are 100% free of GMOs. glycerides methylcellulose xanthan gum 12 13