Do you ever think about what you are really eating? A lot of foods that might look like food aren't actually food. Let's face it: Some things you should just not put in your mouth. Filled with chemicals, artificial flavors, artificial colors and a lot of ingredients you probably can't even pronounce. I found an interesting article that shows 19 foods that aren't food.

Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” — Michael Pollan

When I started googling this subject it seemed like every food blog or online magazine has written an article like this. Does this mean we are finally really acknowledging the crap (excuse my french) we are eating? There were a few products that made an appearance in every article so let me show you the products you want to avoid eating:

Chocolate milk that isn't chocolate milk
"Take a closer look: That's not chocolate drink in your hand, not chocolate milk. Yoo-hoo doesn't actually contain any liquid milk, but it does come with a dose of partially hydrogenated soybean oil (hello, thans fat!). We dare you to get even halfway down the ingredient list before shedding a chocolate flavored tear." (www.prevention.com)
I think chocolate milk made of 'chocolade' powder isn't that good. I can't even imagine how this is going to taste. 

Eggs that aren't eggs
"Real eggs contain one ingredient. Egg substitutes contain 20 ingredients. After eggs, the next ingredient is a proprietary blend of “natural flavors”." (Village Green Network)
Wow! I didn't even knew this product existed. I can't imagine you would want to use fake eggs, ew! 

Blueberries that aren't blueberries
"What goes best with fake maple syrup? Fraudulent pancakes, of course. Read the tiny print that says "with imitation blueberries", and you'll be dying to hear how to fake a fruit. Here's the secret: take some dextrose, fractionated palm kernel oil, flour, citric acid, cellulose gum, maltodextrin, artificial flavors, two types of blue, one part red, and you're set!" (Huffington Post)
Do I even have to say something about this? As a fruit lover it makes me cry that this product even exists. Never underestimate the taste of fresh fruit, yum!

I think articles like this show that we're getting more and more conscious about what we are eating. It also links to 'The Open World', because if found almost the same article on various websites. It's a subject we want to share our knowledge about. 

If there's no one to show a good example, we'll never learn. Luckily there are: You wouldn't see any food blog, magazine or recipe using these kind of ingredients, ever. I think this is a good sign and a step in the right direction. Hopefully this consciousness will only grow bigger in the next upcoming years. Recent trends linked to this subject show us it will: transparency and 'sharing is caring'.