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How to avoid foods made
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contents
Introduction & Overview 1
Fruits & Vegetables 3
Meats, Fish & Eggs 3
Alternative Meat Products 3
Dairy Products 4
Alternative Dairy Products 5
Baby Foods & Infant Formula 5
Grains, Beans & Pasta 6
Cereals & Breakfast Bars 6
Baked Goods 7
Frozen Foods 7
Soups, Sauces & Canned Foods 8
Condiments, Oils, Dressings & Spreads 9
Snack Foods 10
Candy, Chocolate Products & Sweeteners 11
Sodas, Juices & Other Beverages 12
Invisible GM Ingredients 13
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To learn more about GMOs, consult the books Genetic Roulette: The
Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods by Jeffrey M.
Smith or Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes
in Your Food by Andrew Kimbrell. Information on GMOs is also available at
www.CenterForFoodSafety.org and www.HealthierEating.org.
Copyright February 2010 Center for Food Safety and Institute for Responsible
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introduction & overview
Corn
n Corn flour, meal, oil, starch, gluten, and syrup
n Sweeteners such as fructose, dextrose, and glucose
n Modified food starch*
Soy
n Soy flour, lecithin, protein, isolate, and isoflavone
n Vegetable oil* and vegetable protein*
Canola Canola oil (also called rapeseed oil)
Cotton Cottonseed oil
*May be derived from other sources
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BOLD with an asterisk * denotes brands with products enrolled in the Non-
GMO Project’s third party GMO Avoidance Verification Program.
Learn more at: www.NONgmoProject.org/consumers
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Alternative Dairy Products
Non-GMO
Belsoy Sun Soy
EdenSoy* Stonyfield Farm O’Soy
Imagine Foods/Soy Dream Tofutti
Lisanatti VitaSoy/Nasoya
Nancy’s Cultured Soy* WestSoy
Nancy’s Organic Cultured WholeSoy*
Soy* Wildwood
Organic Valley Soy* Yves The Good Slice
Pacific Natural Foods* Zen Don
Silk May contain GMO
So Delicious ingredients
8th Continent
BOLD with an asterisk * denotes brands with products enrolled in the Non-
GMO Project’s third party GMO Avoidance Verification Program.
Learn more at: www.NONgmoProject.org/consumers
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GRAINS, BEANS & PASTA
Other than corn, no GM grains are sold on the market. Look for
100-percent wheat pasta, couscous, rice, quinoa, oats, barley,
sorghum, and dried beans (except soybeans).
Non-GMO KAMUT
Annie’s * Lundberg Family Farms*
Bob’s Red Mill, organic Organic Planet*
Eden* Sunridge Farms
Field Day* Vita-Spelt pasta
FROZEN FOODS
Many frozen foods are highly processed. Keep an eye out for
the Big Four at-risk ingredients and stay away from frozen
foods that contain them, unless they are marked organic or
non-GM.
Non-GMO
A.C. LaRocco Eggo Waffles (Kellogg)
Amy’s Kitchen Gardenburger
Cascadian Farms Green Giant (General Mills)
Cedarlane Healthy Choice (ConAgra)
Helen’s Kitchen Kid’s Cuisine (ConAgra)
Ian’s Natural Foods Lean Cuisine (Nestle)
Linda McCartney Marie Callender’s (ConAgra)
Mom Made Meals Morningstar Farms, unless
Rising Moon* organic (Kellogg)
The Simple Soyman Rosetto Frozen Pasta (Nestle)
Woodstock Farms* Stouffer’s (Nestle)
May Contain GMO Swanson (Campbell’s)
Ingredients Tombstone (Kraft)
Boca, unless organic (Kraft) Totino’s (Smucker’s)
Celeste (Pinnacle Foods) Voila! (Birds Eye/Unilever)
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SOUPS, SAUCES & CANNED FOODS
Many soups and sauces are highly processed, so give the
ingredient lists close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk
ingredients.
Soups: Non-GMO May Contain GMO
Amy’s Ingredients
Fantastic Foods* Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice
Health Valley/Westbrae (ConAgra)
Imagine Natural Campbell’s products (Healthy
Natural/Hain Request, Chunky, Simply
Rapunzel Home, & Pepperidge Farm)
ShariAnn’s Organics Hormel products
Walnut Acres, organic Progresso Soups(General Mills)
Sauces/Salsas:
Non-GMO May Contain GMO
Amy’s Ingredients
Eden* Bertolli (Unilever)
Emerald Valley Kitchen Chi-Chi’s (Hormel)
Field Day* Classico (Heinz)
Green Mountain Gringo* Del Monte
Muir Glen Organic Healthy Choice (ConAgra)
Rising Moon* Hunt’s (ConAgra)
Seeds of Change pasta sauce Old El Paso (General Mills)
Walnut Acres pasta sauce Pace (Campbell’s)
Prego (Campbell’s)
Ragu (Unilever)
Canned Food:
Non-GMO May Contain GMO
Amy’s Ingredients
Annie’s* Chef Boyardee
Eden* Dinty Moore, Stagg, Hormel
ShariAnn’s, organic (Hormel)
Westbrae, organic Franco-American (Campbell’s)
Yves Veggie Cuisine (Hain
Celestial)
Woodstock Farms*
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CONDIMENTS, OILS, DRESSINGS
& SPREADS
Unless labeled explicitly, corn, soybean, cottonseed, and
canola oils probably contain genetically modified products.
Choose pure olive, coconut, sesame, sunflower, safflower,
almond, grapeseed, and peanut oils. Also choose preserves,
jams, and jellies with cane sugar, not corn syrup.
Non-GMO Spectrum oils and dressings
Annie’s Naturals* SushiSonic Condiments*
Bountiful Bean The Simple Soyman
Bragg’s liquid amino Tropical Traditions
Carrington Farms Flax Seed Vegan by Nature Buttery Spread
Crofter’s Organic Vigoa Cuisine
Drew’s salad dressing Wholemato
Eden* Wildwood
Emerald Cove Woodstock Farms*
Emerald Valley Kitchen May Contain GMO
Emperor’s Kitchen* Ingredients
Field Day* Crisco (Smucker’s)
Follow Your Heart* Del Monte
Harvest Moon Mushrooms Heinz
Ian’s Natural Foods Hellman’s (Unilever)
I.M. Health SoyNut Butters Kraft condiments and
Kettle Brand* dressings
Krazy Ketchup Mazola
Maranatha Nut Butters Pam (ConAgra)
Miso Master* Peter Pan (ConAgra)
Muir Glen Organic ketchup Skippy (Unilever)
Nasoya Smucker’s, unless “Simply
Newmans Own Organic 100% Fruit”
Rapunzel Wesson (ConAgra)
Ruth’s Wish-Bone (Unilever)
Sage Hills Farms
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SNACK FOODS
Look for snacks made from wheat, rice, or oats, and ones that
use sunflower or safflower oils. There is no GM popcorn on the
market, nor is there blue or white GM corn.
Snacks: Non-GMO Peeled Snacks
Annie’s* Peter Rabbit Organics
Barbara’s, organic Plum Organics Tots
Bearitos/Little Bear Organics Rapunzel
(Hain Celestial) Revolution Foods
Earthly Treats Ruth’s
Eco-Planet Simple Sweets
Eden* Sunridge Farms
Field Day* Tasty Brand
Funky Monkey Woodstock Farms*
Garden of Eatin’ May Contain GMO
Grandy Oats Ingredients
Hain Pure Snax/Hain Pure Foods FritoLay (Lay’s, Ruffles,
Health Valley Doritos,Cheetos, Tostitos)
Ian’s Natural Foods Hostess
Kettle Brand* Keebler (Kellogg’s)
Kopali Organics Kraft (Nabisco, Nilla Wafers,
Late July Organic Snacks Oreos, Ritz, Nutter Butter,
Mary’s Gone Crackers* Honey Maid, SnackWells,
Nature’s Path* Teddy Grahams, Wheat Thins,
Namaste Foods Triscuit)
Newman’s Own Organics Pepperidge Farm (Campbell’s)
Newman’s Own, except salad Pringles
dressings Quaker
Energy Bars: Non-GMO
Clif Bar Optimum Energy Bar
Divine Foods Organic Food Bar
Genisoy Bars Ruth’s
GoodOnYa Bar Weil by Nature’s Path Organic
Lara Bar May Contain GMO
Luna Bar Ingredients
Macrobars Balance Bar
MacroLife Naturals
Nature Valley (General Mills)
Nature’s Path*
Nabisco Bars (Kraft)
Nutiva
Odwalla PowerBar (Nestle)
Quaker Granola
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candy, chocolate products
& SWEETENERS
Many sweeteners, and products like candy and chocolate that
contain them, can come from GMO sources. Look for organic
and non-GMO sweeteners, candy and chocolate products
made with 100% cane sugar, evaporated cane juice or organic
sugar to avoid GM beet sugar, and watch out for soy lecithin
in chocolates and corn syrup in candies.
The sweetener aspartame is derived from GM microorganisms.
It is also referred to as NutraSweet® and Equal® and is found
in over 6,000 products, including soft drinks, gum, candy,
desserts, yogurt, tabletop sweeteners, and some pharmaceu-
ticals such as vitamins and sugar-free cough drops.
Chocolate: Non-GMO May Contain GMO
Chocolove Ingredients
Dagoba Ghirardelli Chocolate
Endangered Species* Hershey’s
Green & Black’s Organic Nestlé (Crunch, Kit Kat,
Kopali Organics Smarties)
Lindt Chocolate Toblerone (Kraft)
Newman’s Own
Nonuttin’
Rapunzel
Woodstock Farms*
Sweetners: Non-GMO
Eden*
Sweet Cloud*
Tropical Traditions
Woodstock Farms*
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SODAS, JUICES
& other beverages
Most juices are made from GMO-free fruit (avoid papaya
though, as it could be GMO), but the prevalence of corn-based
sweeteners—e.g. high-fructose corn syrup—in fruit juices
is cause for concern. Many sodas are primarily comprised of
water and corn syrup. Look for 100-percent juice blends.
Non-GMO
After the Fall, organic (Smuckers) Teeccino Herbal Caffe
Big Island Organics Walnut Acres Organic Juices
Blue Sky Woodstock Farms*
Cascadian Farm May Contain GMO
Crofters Organic Ingredients
Eden* Coca-Cola (Fruitopia, Minute
Field Day* Maid, Hi-C, NESTEA)
Frey Vineyards Hansen Beverage Company
Mixerz All Natural Cocktail Mixers Hawaiian Punch
Naked Juices (Procter and Gamble)
Nancy’s Organic Lowfat Kefir Kraft (Country Time, Kool-Aid,
Odwalla Crystal Light, Capri Sun, Tang)
Organic Valley Libby’s (Nestlé)
PediaSmart Ocean Spray
Quinoa Gold Pepsi (Tropicana, Frappuccino,
R.W. Knudsen, organic Gatorade, SoBe, Dole)
(Smucker’s) Sunny Delight (Procter and
Santa Cruz Organic (Smucker’s) Gamble)
Sea20 Organic Energy Drink
Note: This guide was compiled based on company statements, not
genetic testing. Any product labeled as Non-GMO indicates that its
manufacturing process is designed to avoid GMOs, but consumers
should be aware that GM contamination is possible due to natural pol-
len movement, weather events, seed contamination, or human error.
Hence there is no guarantee such products are 100% free of GMOs.
Center for Food Safety’s participation in this guide does not
necessarily imply endorsement of any of the products or labels
listed in this guide.
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INVISIBLE GM INGREDIENTS
Processed foods often have hidden GM sources (unless they
are organic or declared non-GMO). The following are ingredi-
ents that may be made from GMOs.
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