Went to the pittsburgh one today. A lot of conventional produce and I looked at a pack of "organic" chocolate chip cookies. It had modified palm oil. Is that a euphamism for trans fat?

Whole foods copt out a long time ago. All the letter writing, all the outrage in the world is not changing them.. They do sell a lot of trash, and expensive trash at that.

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It's very hard for the average shopper to tell what's healthy and what isn't, the label info is many times deceptive and confusing.

It's been years since I've even been inside a Whole Foods. All I remember is their extremely high prices. I don't have money to throw out the window like that, get better deals at my local Sunflower Market for natural foods, and the Vitamin Cottage for supplements and foods.

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I can usually spot a lot of the scam, but not all of it. Modified palm oil sounds strange. Also, they have a lot of products with canola oil. I avoid that stuff.

I don't buy the Whole Foods brand items after hearing things about what is in them.

I just searched it, modified palm oil is fractionated, not hydrogenated. But you really have to be careful at whole foods. They have soem great stuff, but they have a lot of junk and there is also the cultural aspect: "I shop at whole foods".

When I lived in FL, I would go downtown for the farmers market and stop by this bar for 2 beers on saturdays. One day this lady, probably around 60 with a face lift and wearing expensive clothes was sitting next to and she said "I come down here every sat and have a glass of chardonney and then go to whole foods", I replied, I go there occasionally but it is too pricey to buy everything there. She replied " I only shop there". I kept my cool, but you can guess what I wanted to say!