THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT'S REALLY IN COOKING SPRAYS

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Since I am a believer in cooking from scratch and ways of eating healthy, I thought this excert from this article was worth posting:

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When cooking sprays came on the food scene, I was thrilled. Since they claimed to add no additional calories and to make cooking surfaces non-stick, it seemed like a perfectly reasonable way to “have my cake and eat it, too.” 

However, as a nutritionist I like to read my food labels so I turned the can over to read the ingredient deck.  I was shocked to see the long list of ingredients and didn’t recognize many of them, including dimethylpolysiloxane, diacetyl and propellants. I decided to take these ingredients on a little trip down research lane so I could really begin to understand what I had just fed my family... 

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