What do black licorice, The Grateful Dead and Vani Hari (a.k.a. the Food Babe) have in common? Answer: People either love ‘em or loathe ‘em. For those in the food industry, it’s a good bet that the verdict on the Food Babe leans toward the latter.
That’s because when she talks, consumers listen. And perhaps it’s because she writes things like this on her blog: “Don’t buy, consume or keep products in your house with the following ingredients in them: barley malt, beet sugar, brown sugar, buttered syrup, caramel, carob syrup, corn syrup, corn-syrup solids, dextran. dextrose, diastase, diastatic malt, ethyl maltol, fructose, glucose, glucose solids, high-fructose corn syrup, invert sugar, lactose, malt syrup, maltodextrin, maltose, mannitol, malitol, raw sugar, refiner’s syrup, sorbitol, sorghum syrup, sucrose, turbinado sugar, yellow sugar.”