{"id":78992,"date":"2012-09-11T11:12:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T16:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=78992"},"modified":"2012-09-12T15:41:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T20:41:48","slug":"organic-vs-non-organic-battle-of-the-packaged-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/organic-vs-non-organic-battle-of-the-packaged-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic vs Non-Organic: Battle of the Packaged Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;ve all been at the grocery store, holding up two products trying to decide which is better for our health. With miles-long ingredients lists and confusing nutrition labels, picking the right foods for our families can be a daunting task &#8211; especially when cost is a major consideration. Throw in the factor that<strong> <a title=\"organic may not be better\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/organic-produce-may-not-be-any-healthier\/\">organic is supposedly superior<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and it&#8217;s enough to make your head spin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;ve been curious for a while now if organic packaged foods are really that much better for you than their non-organic counterparts. A little research proved that our suspicions about organic food were confirmed: they really are <strong><a title=\"microgreens are better than mature vegetables\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/microgreens-may-provide-more-nutrition-than-mature-vegetables\/\">the healthier choice<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on the basis of nutrition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yes, the organic Oreos may cost more and taste different than the non-organic version, but we found that organic foods concentrate much more on whole, natural ingredients and leave out the artificial and highly-processed items that are ultimately harmful to our health.\u00a0If cost wasn&#8217;t a factor, we&#8217;d tout organic all the way. But we&#8217;ve comprised a slideshow with a side-by-side comparison of ingredients and nutrition so\u00a0<em>you<\/em>\u00a0can decide which products are <strong><a title=\"organic food\" href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/greenliving\/is-organic-food-healthier.html\" target=\"_blank\">worth going organic<\/a><\/strong> for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While organic packaged foods are often healthier than non-organic, always keep in mind that\u00a0<strong><a title=\"benefits of a balanced diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/a-low-glycemic-diet-may-be-the-best-way-to-slim-down\/\">eating a balanced diet<\/a><\/strong> of whole, natural foods and keeping processed foods to a minimum is always the best diet approach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/slideshows\/organic-vs-non-organic-packaged-foods\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78995\" title=\"organic-vs-non-organic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/organic-vs-non-organic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/organic-vs-non-organic.jpg 320w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/organic-vs-non-organic-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all been at the grocery store, holding up two products trying to decide which is better for our health. With miles-long ingredients lists and confusing nutrition labels, picking the right foods for our families can be a daunting task &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/organic-vs-non-organic-battle-of-the-packaged-foods\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687,3695],"tags":[10309,280,1080,8175,3648,9540,7898,860,5640,10273],"class_list":["post-78992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-annies-organic","tag-candy","tag-kashi","tag-kellogg-cereal","tag-kraft","tag-mars-inc","tag-odwalla","tag-organic","tag-quaker","tag-unjunked"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78992"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79006,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78992\/revisions\/79006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}