Real Food??

      So I went to wash the dishes today with a new dish-washing soap my mother bought earlier. The container claims that the liquid is made with real lemons. I looked at the back of it to check the ingredients, and sure enough- the soap is made with real lemon juice. That got me thinking- I went to my pantry and got out lemon juice that we keep to freshen salads and whatnot. Looking at the ingredients for the lemon juice, turns out that the lemon juice we were using on our food was not actually lemon juice but rather artificial flavoring. However, the soap that I was dishes with and is not edible has actual lemons in it.
     Looking at the juices we have in our pantry, fridge, and shelves, it seems as though a lot of it comes from concentrate. That is, not real fruit or vegetables. Instead, it's a powder that makes the liquid taste like what we think we're drinking. Ever wonder why grape juice tastes nothing like grapes? That's because it is made from grape concentrate. This is why when we drink real fruit juices or juice that's actually made with fruit, the drink seems much better. You're actually getting the nutrients and benefits from the fruit, and not just the taste. However, not all drinks claim to have real fruit. Some drinks do, and in tiny print they tell you that the liquid you are drinking does not, in fact, have real fruit in it.
    Ever see the sign on your pasta or cereal that says "Made with Whole Grains?" Well, your pasta or cereal is still made with whole grains....but that's not what the majority of your food is made of. Unbleached whole wheat flour still makes up most of what you eat. What about those "low-fat" foods? Sure, they may have less fat than the original product, but check the caloric intake and the carbohydrate levels. They sure go up to ensure that your product still tastes as close to the original. Those "fat-free" items you're tempted to buy because you want to feel healthier? Check the calories. On most nutrition labels, calories are separated into calories and calories from fat. The "fat-free" items will still have calories from fat (a lot, most of the time), which proves their fat-free claim to be false. People like to buy 98% fat-free milk instead of 2% milk- it just sounds better!
     Then, while I was on this little rampage, I decided to check the PAM spray, which claims to be 0 calories. Ok, so the can does say it contains 0 calories and 0 grams of fat. Then I decided to look at the ingredients. The first one on the list is canola oil. Oil. Oil. Isn't oil supposed to very caloric?? I had to Google it to find out that 1 tablespoon of canola oil is equal to about 120 calories. I went back to the can. I was confused. How can it be 0 calories if the main ingredient is canola oil? Then I noticed the serving size. 1/3 of a second of spraying is equal to 0 calories, in which there is about 702 servings of. Let me ask you, how long do you spray your PAM for? Probably not 1/3 of a second.
     I'm tempted to go raid my entire kitchen to find these little discrepancies and then do some research to find out the truth (which is how I know so much about the stuff I'm saying here). But I think I'll leave this as is and accept the fact that everything a food label says is or can be a lie.