Additives

Two major food manufacturers are cooking up some headlines. 

Tuesday, protestors gathered outside Kellogg’s headquarters, armed with a 400,000-signature petition, to demand that Kellogg cut the chemicals. Kellogg has started dying Froot Loops (which are apparently colorless in nature) with fruit and vegetable juice in other countries but has kept artificial dyes in the States despite pledging to remove them from their ingredient bushel by 2018. 

Activists say there’s evidence that artificial ingredients can cause behavioral problems in children; Kellogg maintains that its foods are safe.

Meanwhile, Pepsico is responding to slumping sales by adding chips back into their Tostitos and Ruffles bags. It’s faced backlash for “shrinkflation,” putting fewer chips in bags for the same price. Now, it’ll offer “bonus bags” with 20% more chips for the same price as the airier bags.

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Verse to consider whether your bags of chips are full or empty… “Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no fruit on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food… yet I will celebrate in the Lord; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation! The Lord my Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like those of a deer and enables me to walk on mountain heights!”
Habakkuk 3:17-19 (CSB) (read full passage)