Food behind it's Mask

     This morning, and usually every morning I start my day off by eating oatmeal. I'm not too picky about a certain kind of oatmeal but one of my favorites is the raisin, date and walnut oatmeal by Quaker. I like that you can taste different flavors as you are eating but I'm actually surprised and not aware of the ingredients in oatmeal. I looked up the ingredients on the side of the box and this is what i saw;

     Whole grain rolled oats, sugar, raisins, chopped dates, walnuts with BHT added to protect flavoring, salt, calcium carbohydrate, oat flour, guar gum, cinnamon, niacinamide, reduced iron, vitamin A, palmitate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, thiamin mononitrate, folic acid.

     My first thought was Wow! Thier is way to many other ingredients than I thought their would be in oatmeal. Whole grain comes from wheat which comes from a seed. Whole grain is very healthy and is recommended to eat 23 grams a day. Sugar comes from sugar Cane which is also in oatmeal but many other foods. Raisins come from grapes which are dried up. Chopped dates, and walnuts all come from trees that are grown. Some other ingredients that I read like hydrochloride freaked me out completely. BHT also added in the ingredients to keep flavoring has me wondering if really Quaker oatmeal is the best for me to be eating.
     Some of the ingredients like whole grain and raisins are healthy but also their is combinations on bad. This lookup has me cautious to look and be more observant before I eat my regular foods. I also had orange juice with my breakfast. Orange juice ingedients has water, oranges, and concentrate juice. This orange juice was manufactured from Publix in Florida and they use all natural ingredients. After observing all the ingredients and learning where they come from and discover some bad ingredients I have a different opinion now on the foods I think are healthy. I will now look on everything and read over the labels before I buy the product because I want to be healthy and have no complications later in life.