This article is a interesting compilation of all the GMO related stuff and one of the easy TO-DO list is at this link
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/DocumentFiles/144.pdf
I haven't completely read the list yet, to see any other extra filtering needed. Any way, Non-GMO is only one component of bigger picture, still convenient to see every thing in one place.
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/DocumentFiles/144.pdf
I haven't completely read the list yet, to see any other extra filtering needed. Any way, Non-GMO is only one component of bigger picture, still convenient to see every thing in one place.
How to avoid brands made with genetically
modified organisms (GMOs)
Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM) of
food involves the laboratory process of artificially inserting
genes into the DNA of food crops or animals. The result is
called a genetically modified organism or GMO. GMOs can be
engineered with genes from bacteria, viruses, insects,
animals, or even humans. Most Americans say they would not
eat GMOs if labeled, but unlike most other industrialized
countries, the U.S. 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
you find and avoid GMO foods and ingredients. It does not
cover other potentially harmful ingredients, allergens,
colors or additives.
Tips for avoiding GM crops
TIP #1: BUY ORGANIC
Certified organic products are not allowed to contain any
GMOs. When the product is labeled “100% organic”, “organic”
“made with organic ingredients,” then even the non-
organic ingredients cannot be produced from GMOs.
For example, products labeled as “made with organic
ingredients” only require 70% of the ingredients to be
organic, but 100% must be non-GMO.
TIP #2: LOOK FOR“NON-GMO” LABELS
Companies may voluntarily label products as “non-GMO.”
Some labels state “non-GMO” while others spell out “Made
Without Genetically Modified Ingredients.” Some products
limit their claim to only one particular “At-Risk” ingredient
such as soy lecithin, listing it as “non-GMO.”
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TIP #3: AVOID AT-RISK INGREDIENTS
Avoid products made with any of the crops that are GM. Most
GM ingredients are products made from the “Big Four:” corn,
soybeans, canola, and cottonseed, used in processed foods.
Some of the most common genetically engineered Big Four
ingredients in processed foods are:
Corn
¦
Corn flour, meal, oil, starch, gluten, and syrup
¦
Sweeteners such as fructose, dextrose, and glucose
¦
Modified food starch*
Soy
¦
Soy flour, lecithin, protein, isolate, and isoflavone
¦
Vegetable oil* and vegetable protein*
Canola Canola oil (also called rapeseed oil)
Cotton Cottonseed oil
*May be derived from other sources
In addition, GM sugar beet sugar recently entered the food
supply. Look for organic and non-GMO sweeteners, candy and
chocolate products made with 100% cane sugar, evaporated
cane juice or organic sugar, to avoid GM beet sugar.
Sugar Anything not listed as 100% cane sugar
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TIP #4: BUY PRODUCTS LISTED IN THIS
SHOPPING GUIDE
Keep this Guide with you whenever you shop. Store it inside
your reusable shopping bag, put into your coupon holder or
check book, or leave it in your car.
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
Very few fresh fruits and vegetables for sale in the U.S. are
genetically modified. Novel products such as seedless watermelons
are NOT genetically modified. Small amounts of
zucchini, yellow crookneck squash, and sweet corn may be
GM. The only commercialized GM fruit is papaya from Hawaii—
about half of Hawaii’s papayas are GM.
MEAT, FISH & EGGS
No genetically modified fish, fowl, or livestock is yet approved
for human consumption. However, plenty of non-organic foods
are produced from animals raised on GM feed such as grains.
Look for wild rather than farmed fish to avoid fish raised on
genetically modified feed, and 100% grass-fed animals.
Non-GMO Organic Prarie, Vital Choice,
Eggs: Non-GMO Nest Fresh Organic
Egg Innovations Organic Organic Valley
Eggland’s Best Organic Pete and Jerry’s Organic Eggs
Land O’Lakes Organic Wilcox Farms Organic
ALTERNATIVE MEAT PRODUCTS
Many alternative meat products are processed and include
ingredients that can be genetically engineered, so give the
ingredient lists close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk
ingredients, especially soy.
Non-GMO May contain GMO ingredients
365 Brand (Whole Foods) Boca, unless labeled organic (Kraft)
Amy’s Gardenburger
Bountiful Bean Morningstar Farms, Morningstar Farms
Sunshine Burger Natural Touch, unless labeled organic
The Simple Soyman (Kellogg)
Vitasoy
Wildwood
White Wave
DAIRY PRODUCTS &
ALTERNATIVE DAIRY PRODUCTS
Some U.S. dairy farms inject the genetically engineered
hormone rbGH, also called rbST, into their cows to boost milk
production. Organic dairy products are rbGH-free and do not
use GM grains as feed. Products with a label that indicates
cows free of rbGH or rbST may come from cows fed GM feed.
Many alternative dairy products are made from soybeans and
may contain GM materials.
Dairy Products: Non-GMO
Certified Organic Organic Valley
Alta Dena Organics Radiance Dairy
Butterworks Farm Safeway Organic Brand
Harmony Hills Dairy Seven Stars Farm
Horizon Organic Straus Family Creamery
Morningland Dairy Farm
Nancy’s Organic Dairy Wisconsin Organics
Natural by Nature
Produced Without rbGH National
Alta Dena Grafton Village Cheese
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Great Hill Dairy
Brown Cow Farm
Lifetime Dairy
Crowley Cheese of Vermont
Nancy’s Natural Dairy
Franklin County Cheese
West Coast Joseph Farms Cheese
Alpenrose Dairy Sunshine Dairy Foods
Berkeley Farms Tillamook Cheese
Clover Stornetta Farms Wilcox Family Farms
Midwestand Gulf States Erivan Dairy Yogurt
Anderson Erickson Promised Land Dairy
Chippewa Valley Cheese Westby Cooperative Creamery
East Coast Erivan Dairy Yogurt
Blythedale Farm Cheese Farmland Dairies
Crescent Creamery Oakhurst Dairy
Derle Farms (milk with Wilcox Dairy (rbST-free
“no rbST” label only) dairy line only)
May contain GMO ingredients
Colombo (General Mills) Parmalat
Dannon Sorrento
Kemps(asidefrom“Select”brand) The Country’s Best Yoghurt
Land O’ Lakes Yoplait (General Mills)
Alternative Dairy Products
Non-GMO
Belsoy
EdenSoy
Imagine Foods/Soy Dream
Nancy’s Cultured Soy
Nancy’s Organic Cultured Soy
Organic Valley Soy
Soy
Silk
Soy Delicious
Sun Soy
Farm O’Soy
Tofutti
VitaSoy/Nasoya
WestSoy
WholeSoy
Yves The Good Slice
Zen Don
May contain GMO
ingredients
8th Continent
BABY FOODS & INFAN T FORMULA
Milk or soy protein is the basis of most infant formulas. The
secret ingredients in these products are often soy or milk from
cows injected with rbGH. Many brands also add GMO-derived
corn syrup, corn syrup solids, or soy lecithin.
Non-GMO May contain GMO
Baby’s Only ingredients
organic products) Beech-Nut
Earth’s Best Enfamil
Gerber products Good Start
HAPPYBABY Nestlé
Mom Made Meals Similac/Isomil
Organic Baby
Plum Organics
GRAINS, BEANS & PASTA
Other than corn, no GM grains are sold on the market. Look for
100-percent wheat pasta, couscous, rice, quinoa, oats, barley,
sorghum, and dried beans (except soybeans).
BAKED GOODS
While baking ingredients such as wheat flour, rice, kamut, and
oats are not genetically modified, many packaged breads and
bakery items contain other GMO ingredients such as corn syrup.
Non-GMO
Annie’s Natural Pasta
Bob’s Red Mill (organic line)
Eden certified organic grains
Kamut
Lundberg Family Farms
Sunridge Farms
Vita-Spelt pasta
Packaged Meals
Non-GMO
Amy’s
Annie’s Homegrown certified
organic macaroni & cheese
Casbah (Hain-Celestial)
Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods
Fantastic Foods
Ian’s Natural Foods
Lotus Foods
Lundberg Farms Rice Sensations
Organic Planet
Seeds of Change certified
organic boxed meals
May Contain GMO
Ingredients
Betty Crocker meals
(General Mills)
Knorr (Unilever)
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese meals
Lipton meal packets (Unilever)
Near East (Quaker)
Pasta Roni and Rice-A-Roni
meals (Quaker)
Non-GMO
Arrowhead Mills (organic line)
Bakery on Main
Bob’s Red Mill (organic line)
Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods
Dr Oetker Organics
French Meadow
Natural Ovens Bakery
(organic line)
Nature’s Path
FROZEN FOODS
Rudi’s Organic Bakery
Rumford Baking Powder
May Contain GMO
Ingredients
Aunt Jemima (Pinnacle Foods)
Betty Crocker (General Mills)
Calumet Baking Powder (Kraft)
Duncan Hines (Pinnacle Foods)
Hungry Jack (Smucker’s)
Pillsbury (Smucker’s)
Many frozen foods are highly processed. Keep an eye out for the
Big Four at-risk ingredients and stay away from frozen foods
that contain them, unless they are marked organic or non-GM.
CEREALS & BREAKFAST BARS
Cereals and breakfast bars are very likely to include GMO ingredients,
because they are often made with corn and soy products.
Non-GMO:
Ambrosial Granola
Barbara’s (organic line)
Cascadian Farms
Eden
EnviroKidz
Golden Temple
Grandy Oats
Health Valley (organic line)
Lundberg® Purely Organic
Rice Cereal
Nature’s Path
Nonuttin’
Omega Smart Bars
Peace Cereal Organic
Ruth’s
Simple Sweets
Sunridge Farms
May Contain GMO
Ingredients
General Mills
Kellogg
Post (Kraft)
Quaker
Non-GMO
A.C. LaRocco
Amy’s Kitchen
Cascadian Farms Organic frozen
meals and vegetables
Cedarlane
Helen’s Kitchen
Ian’s Natural Foods
Linda McCartney frozen meals
Mom Made Meals
Plum Organics Kids
The Simple Soyma
May Contain GMO
Ingredients
Boca, unless labeled organic
(Kraft)
Celeste (Pinnacle Foods)
Eggo Waffles (Kellogg)
Gardenburger
Green Giant frozen meals
(General Mills)
Healthy Choice (ConAgra)
Kid’s Cuisine (ConAgra)
Lean Cuisine (Nestle)
Marie Callender’s (ConAgra)
Morningstar Farms, Morningstar
Farms Natural Touch, unless
labeled organic (Kellogg)
Rosetto Frozen Pasta (Nestle)
Stouffer’s (Nestle)
Swanson (Campbell’s)
Tombstone (Kraft)
Totino’s (Smucker’s)
Voila! (Birds Eye/Unilever)
SOUPS, SAUCES & CANNED FOODS
Many soups and sauces are highly processed, so give the
ingredient lists close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk
ingredients.
Soups
Non-GMO
Amy’s
Fantastic Foods
Health Valley/Westbrae
Imagine Natural
Natural/Hain
ShariAnn’s Organics
Walnut Acres certified organic
Sauces/Salsas
Non-GMO
Amy’s
Annie’s Natural
Eden
Emerald Valley Kitchen
Green Mountain Gringo &
certified-organic salsa
Muir Glen Organic pasta sauce
& salsa
Seeds of Change certified-
organic pasta sauce
Walnut Acres certified-organic
pasta sauce
May Contain GMO
Ingredients
Chef Boyardee
Dinty Moore, Stagg, Hormel
(Hormel)
Franco-American (Campbell’s)
May Contain GMO
Ingredients
Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice
(ConAgra)
Campbell’s products (including
Healthy Request, Chunky,
Simply Home, and Pepperidge
Farm)
Hormel products
Progresso products
(General Mills)
May Contain GMO
Ingredients
Bertolli (Unilever)
Chi-Chi’s (Hormel)
Classico (Heinz)
Del Monte
Healthy Choice (ConAgra)
Hunt’s (ConAgra)
Old El Paso (General Mills)
Pace (Campbell’s)
Prego (Campbell’s)
Ragu (Unilever)
Canned Food
Non-GMO
Amy’s
Annie’s Natural
Eden
ShariAnn’s certified organic beans
Westbrae certified organic beans
Yves Veggie Cuisine (Hain Celestial)
CONDIMENTS, OILS, DRESSINGS
& SPREADS
Unless labeled explicitly, corn, soybean, cottonseed, and
canola oils probably contain genetically modified products.
Choose pure olive, coconut, sesame, sunflower, safflower,
almond, grapeseed, and peanut oils. Also choose preserves,
jams, and jellies with cane sugar, not corn syrup.
Non-GMO
Annie’s
Bountiful Bean
Bragg’s liquid amino
Carrington Farms Flax Seed
Crofter’s Organic
Drew’s salad dressing
Eden
Emerald Cove
Emerald Valley Kitchen
Emperor’s Kitchen
Follow Your Heart
Harvest Moon Mushrooms
Ian’s Natural Foods
I.M. Health SoyNut Butters
Krazy Ketchup
Maranatha Nut Butters
Miso Master
Muir Glen organic
tomato ketchup
Nasoya
Newmans Own Organic
Ruth’s
Spectrum oils and dressings
SushiSonic Asian Condiments
The Simple Soyman
Vegan by Nature Buttery Spreads
Vigoa Cuisine
Wholemato
May Contain GMO
Ingredients
Crisco (Smucker’s)
Del Monte
Heinz
Hellman’s (Unilever)
Kraft condiments and dressings
Mazola
Pam (ConAgra)
Peter Pan (ConAgra)
Skippy (Unilever)
Smucker’s (except their “Simply
100% Fruit” line of preserves)
Wesson (ConAgra)
Wish-Bone (Unilever)
SNACK FOODS
Look for snacks made from wheat, rice, or oats, and ones that
use sunflower or safflower oils. There is no GM popcorn on the
market, nor is there blue or white GM corn.
Newman’s Own
(except salad dressing)
Snacks
Non-GMO
Ruth’s
Barbara’s (organic line)
Simple Sweets
Bearitos/Little Bear Organics
Sunridge Farms
(Hain Celestial)
Eco-Planet May Contain GMO
Eden Ingredients
FritoLay (Lay’s, Ruffles, Doritos,
Garden of Eatin’
Cheetos, Tostitos)
Grandy Oats
Hostess Products
Hain Pure Snax/Hain Pure Foods
(Interstate Brands)
Health Valley
Keebler (Kellogg’s)
Ian’s Natural Foods
Kraft (Nabisco, Nilla Wafers,
Kettle Foods
Oreos, Ritz, Nutter Butter,
Kopali Organics
Honey Maid, SnackWells,
Late July Organic Snacks
Teddy Grahams, WheatMary’s Gone Crackers
Thins, Triscuit)
Nature’s Path Organic
Pepperidge Farm (Campbell’s)
Namaste Foods
Pringles
Newman’s Own Organics
Quaker Oats Company
Energy Bars
Non-GMO
Clif Bar
Genisoy Bars
GoodOnYa Bar
Lara Bar
Luna Bar
Macrobars
MacroLife Naturals
Nature’s Path
Nutiva
Odwalla
Optimum Energy Bar
Organic Food Bar
Ruth’s
Weil by Nature’s Path Organic
May Contain GMO
Ingredients
Balance Bar
Nature Valley snack bars and
granola bars (General Mills)
Nabisco Bars (Kraft)
PowerBar (Nestle)
Quaker Granola Bars
CANDY, CHOCOLATE PRODUCTS
& SWEETENERS
Many sweeteners, and products like candy and chocolate that
contain them, can come from GMO sources. Look for organic
and non-GMO sweeteners, candy and chocolate products
made with 100% cane sugar, evaporated cane juice or organic
sugar to avoid GM beet sugar, and watch out for soy lecithin in
chocolates and corn syrup in candies.
The sweetener aspartame is derived from GM microorganisms.
It is also referred to as NutraSweet® and Equal® and is found
in over 6,000 products, including soft drinks, gum, candy,
desserts, yogurt, tabletop sweeteners, and some pharmaceuticals
such as vitamins and sugar-free cough drops.
Newman’s Own
Nonuttin’
Chocolate
Non-GMO
Chocolove May Contain GMO
Endangered Species Chocolate
Ingredients
Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate
Ghirardelli Chocolate
Kopali Organics
Hershey’sLindt Chocolate
Nestlé (Crunch, Kit Kat, Smarties)
Nonuttin’
Toblerone (Kraft)
Candy
St. Claire Organic
Sunridge Farms
Non-GMO
Jelly Belly May Contain GMO
Pure Fun Confections
Ingredients
Reed’s Crystallized Ginger
Hershey’s
candy (certified organic)
Lifesaver (Kraft)
Nestlé
Sweetners
Non-GMO
Eden
Sweet Cloud
SODAS, JUICES
& OTHER BEVERAGES
Most juices are made from GMO-free fruit (avoid papaya
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. Many sodas are primarily comprised of
water and corn syrup. Look for 100-percent juice blends.
Non-GMO
After the Fall organic juices
Big Island Organics
Blue Sky
Cascadian Farm
Crofters Organic
Eden
Frey Vinyards
Nancy’s Organic Lowfat Kefir
Odwalla
Organic Valley
Quinoa Gold
Mixerz All Natural Cocktail Mixers
R.W. Knudsen organic juices
and spritzers (Smucker’s)
Santa Cruz Organic (Smucker’s)
Sea20 Organic Energy Drink
Teeccino Herbal Caffe
Walnut Acres Organic Juices
May Contain GMO
Ingredients
Coca-Cola (Fruitopia, Minute
Maid, Hi-C, NESTEA)
Hansen Beverage Company
Hawaiian Punch
(Procter and Gamble)
Kraft (Country Time, Kool-Aid,
Crystal Light, Capri Sun, Tang)
Libby’s (Nestlé)
Ocean Spray
Pepsi (Tropicana, Frappuccino,
Gatorade, SoBe, Dole)
Sunny Delight (Procter and
Gamble)
SPECIAL NOTE: This guide was compiled based on company statements,
not genetic testing. Any product labeled as Non-GMO indicates
that its manufacturing process is designed to avoid GMOs, but
consumers should be aware that GM contamination is possible due
to natural pollen movement, weather events, seed contamination,
or human error. Hence there is no guarantee such products are
100% free of GMOs.
INVISIBLE GM INGREDIENTS
Processed foods often have hidden GM sources (unless they
are organic or declared non-GMO). The following are ingredients
that may be made from GMOs.
Aspartame
glycerin
milo starch
baking powder
glycerol
modified starch
caramel color
glycerol
monosodium
monooleate
glutamate MSG
cellulose
glycine
oleic acid
citric acid
hemicellulose
Phenylalanine
cobalamin
(Vitamin B12)
high fructose
phytic acid
corn syrup
corn gluten
sorbitol
(HFCS)
corn masa
soy flour
hydrogenated
corn oil
soy isolates
starch
corn syrup
soy lecithin
hydrolyzed veg-
cornmeal
soy protein
etable protein
cornstarch
starch
inositol
cyclodextrin
stearic acid
invert sugar
cystein
inverse syrup
(colorose or
dextrin
tempeh
inversol)
dextrose
threonine
tamari
diacetyl
tocopherols
isoflavones
(Vitamin E)
diglyceride
lactic acid
tofu
fructose
lecithin
trehalose
fructose
leucine
(crystalline)
triglyceride
lysine
glucose
vegetable fat
malitol
glutamate
vegetable oil
maltodextrin
glutamic acid
Vitamin B12
maltose
gluten
Vitamin E
mannitol
glycerides
xanthan gum
methylcellulose
Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) although usually derived from corn, is probably not GM
because it is not likely made in North America.
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