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Major conglomerates claim their food is healthy. But they might have funded the study -- and the feds barely care
...Within the food industry and among nutrition experts, the code phrase for all of these types of foods marketed with nutrient-content and health-related claims is functional foods, foods they claim can target and enhance particular bodily functions and overall health. The functional foods term is, however, so poorly and broadly defined that virtually any food with added nutrients, or carrying some type of health claim, seems to qualify. Through their ability to overwhelm consumers with nutritional and health claims on food packaging and in advertisements, food corporations have become the primary disseminators of the most simplified and reductive understanding of food and nutrients in the present era of functional nutritionism....
Here's a look at how Big Foods use Big Spin in their food and nutritional information claims. it all adds up to a disturbing lack of transparency and honesty.