Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below 
HOW TO AVOID FOODS MADE WITH GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMOs)
Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM) of food involves the laboratory process of artificially inserting genes into the DNA of food crops or animals. The result is called a genetically Modified organism or GMO. GMOs can be engineered with genes from bacteria, viruses, insects, animals, or even humans. Most Americans say they would not eat GMOs if labeled. but unlike most other industrialized countries, the U.S. does not required labeling.
This non-GMO shopping guide is designed to help reclaim your right to know about the foods you are buying, and help you find and avoid GMO foods and ingredients.
TIPS FOR AVOIDING GM CROPS
Tip # 1: BUY ORGANIC
Certified organic products are not allowed to contain any GMOs. Therefore, when you purchase products labeled "100% organic," "organic," or "made with organic ingredients," all ingredients in these products are not allowed to be produced from GMOs.
Tip # 2 LOOK FOR "NON-GMO" LABELS
Companies may voluntarily label products as "non-GMO."
Some labels state "non-GMO" while others spell out "Made without Genetic Modified Ingredients." Some products limit their claim to only one particular "AT-RISK" ingredient such as soy lecithin, listing it as non-GMO.
TIP # 3 AVOID AT RISK INGREDIENTS
Avoid any of these ingredients are products made from the "Big Four:"
CORN
Corn flour, meal, oil, starch,gluten, and syrup
Sweeteners such as fructose, dextrose, and glucose
Modified food starch
SOY
Soy flour, lecithin, protein, isolate, isoflavone
Vegetable oil and vegetable protein
CANOLA
Canola oil (also called rapeseed oil)
COTTON
Cotton seed oil
In addition, GM sugar beet sugar recently entered the food supply. Look for organic and non-GMO sweeteners, candy and chocolate products made with 100% cane sugar, evaporated cane juice or organic sugar.
TIP # 4: BUY PRODUCTS LISTED IN THIS SHOPPING GUIDE
Keep this guide with you whenever you shop.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Very few fresh fruits and vegetables in the US are genetically modified.
Novel products such as seedless watermelons are NOT genetically modified.
Small amounts of zucchini, yellow crookneck squash, and sweet corn may be GM. The only commercialized GM fruit is papaya from Hawaii- about half of Hawaii's papayas are GM.
MEAT, FISH, EGGS
No genetically modified fish, fowl,or livestock is yet approved for human consumption.
Look for wild rather then farmed fish to avoid fish raised on GM feed, and 100% grass-fed animals.
Non-GMO: organic Prairie, Vital choice
Eggs: Non-GMO
Egg Innovations Organic
Eggland's Best Organic
Land O'Lakes Organic
Net Fresh Organic
Organic Valley
Pete and Jerry's Organic Eggs
Wicox Farms Organic.
ALTERNATIVE DAIRY PRODUCTS
Non-GMO
Belsoy
EdenSoy
Imagine Foods/Soy dream
Nancy's Cultured Soy
Nancy;s Organic Cultured Soy
Organic Valley soy
Pacific Soy
Silk
Soy Delicious
Sun Soy
Stonyfield farm O'Soy
Tofutti
Vitasoy/Nasoya
Whole Soy
Yves The Good Slice
Zen Don
ALTERNATIVE MEAT PRODUCTS
Many alternative meat products are processed and include ingredients that can be genetically engineered, so give the ingredients lists close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk ingredients, ESPECIALLY SOY.
Non-GMO
365 Brand (Whole Foods)
Amy's
Bountiful Bean
Sunshine Burger
The Simple Soyman
Vitasoy
Wildwood
White Wave
MAY CONTAIN GMO Ingredients.
Boca, unless labeled organic (Kraft)
Gardenburger
Morningstar Farms, Morning Star Farms Natural Touch, unless labeled organic (Kellogg)
It pains me to write this since I highly suggest to take dairy and soy out of your diet. However, I'll add it to the list.
DAIRY PRODUCTS & ALTERNATIVE DAIRY PRODUCTS
Some U.S. dairy farms inject the genetically engineered hormone rbGH, also called rbST, into their cows to boost milk production. Organic dairy products are rbGH-free and do use GN grains as feed. Products with a label that indicates cows free of rbGH or rbST may come from cows fed GM feed. Many alternative dairy products are made from soybeans AND may contain GM materials.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Non-GMO
Certified Organic
Alta Dena Organics
Butterworks Farm
Harmony Hills Dairy
Horizon Organic
Morningland Dairy
Nancy's Organic Dairy
Natural by Nature
Organic Valley
Radiance dairy
Safeway Organic Brand
Seven Stars Farm
Straus Family Creamery
Stonyfield Farm
Wisconsin organics
Produced Without rbGH National
Alta Dena
Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream
Brown Cow Farm
Crowley Cheese of Vermont
Franklin County Cheese
Grafton Village Cheese
Great Hill Dairy
Lifetime Dairy
Nancy's Natural Dairy
West Coast
Alpenrose Dairy
Berkeley Farms
Clover Stornetta Farms
Joseph Farms Cheese
Sunshine Dairy Foods
Tillamook Cheese
Wilcox Family Farms
Midwest and Golf States
Hippewa Valley Cheese
Erivan Dairy Yogurt
Promised Land Dairy
Lifetime Dairy
Nancy's Natural Dairy
EAST COAST
Blythedale Farm cheese
Crescent Creamery
Derle Farms (milk with "no rbST label only)
Ervan dairy yogurt
Farmaland Dairies
Oakhurst Dairy
Wilcox Dairy (rbST-free dairy line only)
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Colombo (General Mills)
Dannon
Kemps (Aside from "Select" brand)
Land O'Lakes
Parmalat
Sorrento
The Country's Best Yoghurt
Yoplait (General Mills)
ALTERNATIVE DAIRY PRODUCTS
Non-GMO
Belsoy
EdenSoy
Imagine Foods/Soy Dream
Nancy's Cultured Soy
Organic valley Soy
Pacific Soy
Silk
Soy Delicious
Sun Soy
Stonyfield Farm O'Soy
Tofutti
VitaSoy/Nasoya
WestSoy
Yves The Good Slice
Zen Don
May contain GMO
8th Continent
BABY FOODS & INFANT FORMULA
Milk or soy protein is the basis of most infant formulas. The secret ingredients in these products are often soy or milk from cows injected with rbGH. Many brands also add GMO-derived corn syrup, corn syrup solids, or soy lecithin.
If any one is interested in finding out which brands contain GMO or MAY contain GMO ingredients in baby and infants formula, I'll be more then happy to post it. However, for now, I'll move on..
GRAIN, BEANS & PASTA
Other then corn, no GM grains are sold on the market. Look for 100% wheat pasta, couscous,rice, quinoa, oats, barley,sorghum and dried beans (except soybeans).
Non-GMO
Annie's Natural Pasta
Bob's Red Mill (organic line)
Eden certified organic grains
Kamut
Lundberg Family Farms
Sunridge Farms
Vita-Spelt Pasta
Package Meals Non-GMO
Amy's
Annie's Homegrown certified organic macaroni & cheese
Casbah (Hain Celestial)
Dr. McDougall's Right Foods
Fantastic Foods
Ian's Natural Foods
Lotus Foods
Lundberg Farms Rice Sensations
Organic Planet
Seeds of Chance certified organic boxed meals
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Betty Crocker Meals (General Mills)
Lipton meal packets (Unilever)
Near East (Quaker)
Pasta Roni and Rice-A-Roni meals (Quaker)
CEREALS & BREAKFAST BARS
Cereals and breakfast bars are very likely to include GMO ingredients, because they are often made with corn and soy products.
Non- GMO:
Ambrosia granola
Barbara's (organic line)
Cascadian Farms
Eden
EnviroKidz
Golden Temple
Grandy Oats
Health Valley (organic line)
Lundberg - Purely Organic
Rice Cereal
Nature's Path
Nonuttin'
Omega Smart Bars
Peace Cereal Organic
Ruth's
Simple Sweets
Sunridge Farms
May Contain GMO Ingredients
General Mills
Kellog
Post (Kraft)
Quaker
BAKED GOODS
While baking ingredients such as wheat flour, rice, Kamut and oats are not genetically modified, many packaged breads and bakery items contain other GMO ingredients such as corn syrup
Non-GMO
Arrowhead Mills (organic line)
Dr. McDougall's Right Foods
Dr. Oetker Organics
French Meadow
Natural Ovens Bakery (organic line)
Nature's Path
Rudi's Organic Bakery
Rumford Baking Powder
May contain GMO Ingredients
Aunt Jemima (Pinnacle Foods)
Betty Crocker (General Mills)
Calumet Baking Powder (Kraft)
Duncan Hines (Pinnacle Foods)
Hungry Jack (Smucker's)
Pillsbury (Smucker's)
SOUPS, SAUCES, & CANNED FOODS
Many soups and sauces are highly processed, so give the ingredients list close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk ingredients.
Soups Non-GMO
Amy's
Fantastic Foods
Health Valley/Westbrae
Imagine Natural
Natural/Hain
ShariAnn's Organics
Walnut Acres certified organic
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice (ConAgra)
Campbell's products (including Healthy request, Chunky, Simple Home and Pepperidge Farm)
Hormel products
Progresso Products (General Mills)
Sauces/Salsa Non-GMO
Amy's (Organic line)
Annie's Natural Eden
Emerald Valley Kitchen
Green Mountain Gringo & certified-organic salsa
Muir Glen Organic pasta sauce & salsa
Seeds of Change certified-organic pasta sauce
Walnut Acres certified-Organic pasta sauce
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Bertolli (Unilever)
Chi-chi's (Hormel)
Classico (Heinz)
Del Monte
Healthy Choice (ConAgra)
Hunt's (ConAgra)
Old EL Paso (General Mills)
Pace (Campbell's)
Prego (Campbell's)
Ragu (Unilever)
Canned Foods Non- GMO
Amy's
Anie's Natural
Eden
ShariAnn's certified organic beans
Westbrae certified organic beans
Yves Veggie Cuisine (Hain Celestial)
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Chef Boyardee
Dinty Moore, Stagg, Hormel (Hormel)
Franco-American (Campbell's)
CONDIMENTS, OILS, DRESSINGS & SPREADS
Unless labeled explicitly, corn, soybean, cottonseed, and canola oils probably contain genetically modified products. Chose pure olive, coconut, sesame, sunflower, safflower, almond, grapeseed, and peanut oils. Also chose preserves, jams, and jellies with cane sugar. NOT corn syrup.
Non-GMO
Annie's
Beautiful Bean
Bragg's liquid amino
Carrington Farms Flax Seed
Crofter's Organic
Drew's salad dressing
Eden
Emerald Cove
Emerald Valley Kitchen
Follow your Heart
Harvest Moon Mushrooms
Ian's Natural Foods
I.M. Health SoyNut Butters
Krazy Ketchup
Maranatha Nut Butters
Miso Master
Muir Glen Organic Tomato Ketchup
Nasoya
Newman's Own organic
Ruth's
Spectrum oils and Dressings
SushiSonic Asian Condiments
The Simple Soyman
Vegan by Nature Buttery Spreads
Vigoa Cuisine
Wholemato
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Crisco (Smucker's)
Del Monte
Heinz
Hellman's (Unilever)
Kraft Condiments and Dressings
Mazola
Pam (ConAgra)
Peter Pan (ConAgra)
Skippy (Unilever)
Smucker's (Except their "Simple 100% fruit" line of preserves)
Wesson (ConAgra)
Wish-Bone (Unilever)
SNACK FOODS
Look for snacks made from wheat, rice, or oats, and ones that use sunflower or safflower oils. There's no GM popcorn on the market, nor is there blue or white GM corn.
Snacks Non-GMO
Barbara's (Organic line)
Bearitos/Little Bear Organic (Hain Celestial)
Eco-Planet
Eden
Garden of Eatin'
Grandy Oats
Hain Pure Snax/Hain Pure Foods
Health Valley
Ian's Natural Foods
Kettle Foods
Kopali Organics
Late July Organic Snacks
Mary's Gone Crackers
Nature's Path Organic
Namaste Foods
Newman's Own Organics
Newman's Owns (except salad dressing)
Ruth's
Simple Sweets
Sunrise Farms
May Contain GMO Ingredients
FritoLay (Lay's Ruffles, Doritos, Cheetos, Tostitos)
Hostess Products (Interstate Brands)
Keebler (Kellogg's)
Kraft (Nabisco, Nilla Waffers, Oreos, Ritz, Nutter Butter, Honey Maid, SnackWells, Teddy Grahams, Wheat Thins, Triscuit)
Pepperidge Farm (Campbell's)
Pringles
Quacker Oats Company
ENERGY BARS
Non-GMO
City Bar
Genisoy Bars
GoodOnya Bar
Lara Bar
Lunar Bar
Macrobars
MacroLife Naturals
Nature's Path
Nutiva
Odwalla
Uptimum Energy Bar
Organic Food Bar
Ruth's
Weil by Nature's Path Organic
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Balance bar
Nature valley Snack bars and Granola bars (General Mills)
Nabisco bars (Kraft)
PowerBar (Nestle)
Quaker Granola bars
CANDY, CHOCOLATE PRODUCTS & SEWEETENERS
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% sugar cane, evaporated sugar cane juice or organic sugar to avoid GM beet sugar, and watch out foe 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 pharmaceuticals such as vitamins and sugar-free cough drops.
Chocolate Non-GMO
Chocolove
Endangered Species Chocolate
Kopali Organics
Lindt Chocolate
Nonuttin
Candy Non-GMO
Jelly Belly
Pure Fun Confections
Reed's Crystalized Ginger and Candy (Certified organic)
Sweeteners Non-GMO
Eden
Sweet Cloud
Newman's own
Nonuttin
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Ghirardelli Chocolate
Hershey's
Nestle (Crumch, Kit Kat, Smarties)
Toblenone (Kraft)
St. Claire Organic
Sunridge Farms
May Contain GMO Ingredients
hershey's
Lifesaver (Kraft)
Nestle
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 sweetener-e.g. high fructose corn syrup-in fruit juices is cause for concern. Many sodas are primarily comprise of water and corn syrup. Look for 100-percent juice blend.
Non-GMO
After the fall organic juices
Big Island Organics
Blue Sky
Cascadian Farm
Crofters Organic
Eden
Frey Vinyards
Nancy's Organic Lowfat Kefir
Odwalla
Organic Valley
Quinoa Gold
Mixers All Natural Cocktail Mixers
R.W. Knudsen organic juices and spritzer (Smucker's)
Santa Cruz Organic (Smucker's)
Sea20 Organic Energy Drink
Teeccino Herbal Caffe
Walnut Acres Organic Juices
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Coca-Cola (Fruitopia, Minute Maid, Hi-C, Nestea)
Hansen Beverage Company Hawaiian Punch (Proctor and Gamble)
Kraft (County Time, Kool-Aid, Crystal Light, Capri Sun, Tang)
Libby's (Nestle)
Ocean Spray
Pepsi (Tropicana, Frappuccino, Gatorade, SoBe, Dole)
Sunny Delight (Procter and Gamble)
INVISIBLE GM INGREDIENTS
Processed foods often have hidden GM sources (Unless they are organic or declared non-GMO). The following are ingredients that may be made from GMO.
Aspartame
baking powder
caramel color
cellulose
citric acid
cobalamin (Vitamin B-12)
corn gluten
corn masa
corn oil
corn syrup
cornmeal
cornstarch
cyclodextrin
cystein
dextrin
dextrose
diacetyl
diglyceride
fructose (crystaline)
glucose
glutamate
glutamic acid
gluten
glycerides
glycerin
glycerol (monooleate)
glycine
hemicellulose
high fructose
corn cyrup (HFCS)
hydrogenated (starch)
hydrolysed vegetable protein
inisitol
invert sugar (colorose or inversol)
tamari
isoflavones
lactic acid
lecithin
leucine
lysine
malitol
maltodextrin
maltose
mannitol
methylcellulose
milo starch
modified starch
monosodium starch
monosodium (glutamate MSG)
oleic acid
phenyllalanine
phytic acid
sorbitol
soy flour
soy isolates
soy lecithin
soy protein
starch
stearic acid
inverse syrup
tempeh
threonine
tocopherols (vitamin E)
tofu
trehalose
triglyceride
vegetable fat
vegetable oil
vtamin B 12
vitamin E
xanthan gum.
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) although usually derived from corn, is probably not GM because it is not likely made in North America.
Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM) of food involves the laboratory process of artificially inserting genes into the DNA of food crops or animals. The result is called a genetically Modified organism or GMO. GMOs can be engineered with genes from bacteria, viruses, insects, animals, or even humans. Most Americans say they would not eat GMOs if labeled. but unlike most other industrialized countries, the U.S. does not required labeling.
This non-GMO shopping guide is designed to help reclaim your right to know about the foods you are buying, and help you find and avoid GMO foods and ingredients.
TIPS FOR AVOIDING GM CROPS
Tip # 1: BUY ORGANIC
Certified organic products are not allowed to contain any GMOs. Therefore, when you purchase products labeled "100% organic," "organic," or "made with organic ingredients," all ingredients in these products are not allowed to be produced from GMOs.
Tip # 2 LOOK FOR "NON-GMO" LABELS
Companies may voluntarily label products as "non-GMO."
Some labels state "non-GMO" while others spell out "Made without Genetic Modified Ingredients." Some products limit their claim to only one particular "AT-RISK" ingredient such as soy lecithin, listing it as non-GMO.
TIP # 3 AVOID AT RISK INGREDIENTS
Avoid any of these ingredients are products made from the "Big Four:"
CORN
Corn flour, meal, oil, starch,gluten, and syrup
Sweeteners such as fructose, dextrose, and glucose
Modified food starch
SOY
Soy flour, lecithin, protein, isolate, isoflavone
Vegetable oil and vegetable protein
CANOLA
Canola oil (also called rapeseed oil)
COTTON
Cotton seed oil
In addition, GM sugar beet sugar recently entered the food supply. Look for organic and non-GMO sweeteners, candy and chocolate products made with 100% cane sugar, evaporated cane juice or organic sugar.
TIP # 4: BUY PRODUCTS LISTED IN THIS SHOPPING GUIDE
Keep this guide with you whenever you shop.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Very few fresh fruits and vegetables in the US are genetically modified.
Novel products such as seedless watermelons are NOT genetically modified.
Small amounts of zucchini, yellow crookneck squash, and sweet corn may be GM. The only commercialized GM fruit is papaya from Hawaii- about half of Hawaii's papayas are GM.
MEAT, FISH, EGGS
No genetically modified fish, fowl,or livestock is yet approved for human consumption.
Look for wild rather then farmed fish to avoid fish raised on GM feed, and 100% grass-fed animals.
Non-GMO: organic Prairie, Vital choice
Eggs: Non-GMO
Egg Innovations Organic
Eggland's Best Organic
Land O'Lakes Organic
Net Fresh Organic
Organic Valley
Pete and Jerry's Organic Eggs
Wicox Farms Organic.
ALTERNATIVE DAIRY PRODUCTS
Non-GMO
Belsoy
EdenSoy
Imagine Foods/Soy dream
Nancy's Cultured Soy
Nancy;s Organic Cultured Soy
Organic Valley soy
Pacific Soy
Silk
Soy Delicious
Sun Soy
Stonyfield farm O'Soy
Tofutti
Vitasoy/Nasoya
Whole Soy
Yves The Good Slice
Zen Don
ALTERNATIVE MEAT PRODUCTS
Many alternative meat products are processed and include ingredients that can be genetically engineered, so give the ingredients lists close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk ingredients, ESPECIALLY SOY.
Non-GMO
365 Brand (Whole Foods)
Amy's
Bountiful Bean
Sunshine Burger
The Simple Soyman
Vitasoy
Wildwood
White Wave
MAY CONTAIN GMO Ingredients.
Boca, unless labeled organic (Kraft)
Gardenburger
Morningstar Farms, Morning Star Farms Natural Touch, unless labeled organic (Kellogg)
It pains me to write this since I highly suggest to take dairy and soy out of your diet. However, I'll add it to the list.
DAIRY PRODUCTS & ALTERNATIVE DAIRY PRODUCTS
Some U.S. dairy farms inject the genetically engineered hormone rbGH, also called rbST, into their cows to boost milk production. Organic dairy products are rbGH-free and do use GN grains as feed. Products with a label that indicates cows free of rbGH or rbST may come from cows fed GM feed. Many alternative dairy products are made from soybeans AND may contain GM materials.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Non-GMO
Certified Organic
Alta Dena Organics
Butterworks Farm
Harmony Hills Dairy
Horizon Organic
Morningland Dairy
Nancy's Organic Dairy
Natural by Nature
Organic Valley
Radiance dairy
Safeway Organic Brand
Seven Stars Farm
Straus Family Creamery
Stonyfield Farm
Wisconsin organics
Produced Without rbGH National
Alta Dena
Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream
Brown Cow Farm
Crowley Cheese of Vermont
Franklin County Cheese
Grafton Village Cheese
Great Hill Dairy
Lifetime Dairy
Nancy's Natural Dairy
West Coast
Alpenrose Dairy
Berkeley Farms
Clover Stornetta Farms
Joseph Farms Cheese
Sunshine Dairy Foods
Tillamook Cheese
Wilcox Family Farms
Midwest and Golf States
Hippewa Valley Cheese
Erivan Dairy Yogurt
Promised Land Dairy
Lifetime Dairy
Nancy's Natural Dairy
EAST COAST
Blythedale Farm cheese
Crescent Creamery
Derle Farms (milk with "no rbST label only)
Ervan dairy yogurt
Farmaland Dairies
Oakhurst Dairy
Wilcox Dairy (rbST-free dairy line only)
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Colombo (General Mills)
Dannon
Kemps (Aside from "Select" brand)
Land O'Lakes
Parmalat
Sorrento
The Country's Best Yoghurt
Yoplait (General Mills)
ALTERNATIVE DAIRY PRODUCTS
Non-GMO
Belsoy
EdenSoy
Imagine Foods/Soy Dream
Nancy's Cultured Soy
Organic valley Soy
Pacific Soy
Silk
Soy Delicious
Sun Soy
Stonyfield Farm O'Soy
Tofutti
VitaSoy/Nasoya
WestSoy
Yves The Good Slice
Zen Don
May contain GMO
8th Continent
BABY FOODS & INFANT FORMULA
Milk or soy protein is the basis of most infant formulas. The secret ingredients in these products are often soy or milk from cows injected with rbGH. Many brands also add GMO-derived corn syrup, corn syrup solids, or soy lecithin.
If any one is interested in finding out which brands contain GMO or MAY contain GMO ingredients in baby and infants formula, I'll be more then happy to post it. However, for now, I'll move on..
GRAIN, BEANS & PASTA
Other then corn, no GM grains are sold on the market. Look for 100% wheat pasta, couscous,rice, quinoa, oats, barley,sorghum and dried beans (except soybeans).
Non-GMO
Annie's Natural Pasta
Bob's Red Mill (organic line)
Eden certified organic grains
Kamut
Lundberg Family Farms
Sunridge Farms
Vita-Spelt Pasta
Package Meals Non-GMO
Amy's
Annie's Homegrown certified organic macaroni & cheese
Casbah (Hain Celestial)
Dr. McDougall's Right Foods
Fantastic Foods
Ian's Natural Foods
Lotus Foods
Lundberg Farms Rice Sensations
Organic Planet
Seeds of Chance certified organic boxed meals
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Betty Crocker Meals (General Mills)
Lipton meal packets (Unilever)
Near East (Quaker)
Pasta Roni and Rice-A-Roni meals (Quaker)
CEREALS & BREAKFAST BARS
Cereals and breakfast bars are very likely to include GMO ingredients, because they are often made with corn and soy products.
Non- GMO:
Ambrosia granola
Barbara's (organic line)
Cascadian Farms
Eden
EnviroKidz
Golden Temple
Grandy Oats
Health Valley (organic line)
Lundberg - Purely Organic
Rice Cereal
Nature's Path
Nonuttin'
Omega Smart Bars
Peace Cereal Organic
Ruth's
Simple Sweets
Sunridge Farms
May Contain GMO Ingredients
General Mills
Kellog
Post (Kraft)
Quaker
BAKED GOODS
While baking ingredients such as wheat flour, rice, Kamut and oats are not genetically modified, many packaged breads and bakery items contain other GMO ingredients such as corn syrup
Non-GMO
Arrowhead Mills (organic line)
Dr. McDougall's Right Foods
Dr. Oetker Organics
French Meadow
Natural Ovens Bakery (organic line)
Nature's Path
Rudi's Organic Bakery
Rumford Baking Powder
May contain GMO Ingredients
Aunt Jemima (Pinnacle Foods)
Betty Crocker (General Mills)
Calumet Baking Powder (Kraft)
Duncan Hines (Pinnacle Foods)
Hungry Jack (Smucker's)
Pillsbury (Smucker's)
SOUPS, SAUCES, & CANNED FOODS
Many soups and sauces are highly processed, so give the ingredients list close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk ingredients.
Soups Non-GMO
Amy's
Fantastic Foods
Health Valley/Westbrae
Imagine Natural
Natural/Hain
ShariAnn's Organics
Walnut Acres certified organic
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice (ConAgra)
Campbell's products (including Healthy request, Chunky, Simple Home and Pepperidge Farm)
Hormel products
Progresso Products (General Mills)
Sauces/Salsa Non-GMO
Amy's (Organic line)
Annie's Natural Eden
Emerald Valley Kitchen
Green Mountain Gringo & certified-organic salsa
Muir Glen Organic pasta sauce & salsa
Seeds of Change certified-organic pasta sauce
Walnut Acres certified-Organic pasta sauce
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Bertolli (Unilever)
Chi-chi's (Hormel)
Classico (Heinz)
Del Monte
Healthy Choice (ConAgra)
Hunt's (ConAgra)
Old EL Paso (General Mills)
Pace (Campbell's)
Prego (Campbell's)
Ragu (Unilever)
Canned Foods Non- GMO
Amy's
Anie's Natural
Eden
ShariAnn's certified organic beans
Westbrae certified organic beans
Yves Veggie Cuisine (Hain Celestial)
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Chef Boyardee
Dinty Moore, Stagg, Hormel (Hormel)
Franco-American (Campbell's)
CONDIMENTS, OILS, DRESSINGS & SPREADS
Unless labeled explicitly, corn, soybean, cottonseed, and canola oils probably contain genetically modified products. Chose pure olive, coconut, sesame, sunflower, safflower, almond, grapeseed, and peanut oils. Also chose preserves, jams, and jellies with cane sugar. NOT corn syrup.
Non-GMO
Annie's
Beautiful Bean
Bragg's liquid amino
Carrington Farms Flax Seed
Crofter's Organic
Drew's salad dressing
Eden
Emerald Cove
Emerald Valley Kitchen
Follow your Heart
Harvest Moon Mushrooms
Ian's Natural Foods
I.M. Health SoyNut Butters
Krazy Ketchup
Maranatha Nut Butters
Miso Master
Muir Glen Organic Tomato Ketchup
Nasoya
Newman's Own organic
Ruth's
Spectrum oils and Dressings
SushiSonic Asian Condiments
The Simple Soyman
Vegan by Nature Buttery Spreads
Vigoa Cuisine
Wholemato
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Crisco (Smucker's)
Del Monte
Heinz
Hellman's (Unilever)
Kraft Condiments and Dressings
Mazola
Pam (ConAgra)
Peter Pan (ConAgra)
Skippy (Unilever)
Smucker's (Except their "Simple 100% fruit" line of preserves)
Wesson (ConAgra)
Wish-Bone (Unilever)
SNACK FOODS
Look for snacks made from wheat, rice, or oats, and ones that use sunflower or safflower oils. There's no GM popcorn on the market, nor is there blue or white GM corn.
Snacks Non-GMO
Barbara's (Organic line)
Bearitos/Little Bear Organic (Hain Celestial)
Eco-Planet
Eden
Garden of Eatin'
Grandy Oats
Hain Pure Snax/Hain Pure Foods
Health Valley
Ian's Natural Foods
Kettle Foods
Kopali Organics
Late July Organic Snacks
Mary's Gone Crackers
Nature's Path Organic
Namaste Foods
Newman's Own Organics
Newman's Owns (except salad dressing)
Ruth's
Simple Sweets
Sunrise Farms
May Contain GMO Ingredients
FritoLay (Lay's Ruffles, Doritos, Cheetos, Tostitos)
Hostess Products (Interstate Brands)
Keebler (Kellogg's)
Kraft (Nabisco, Nilla Waffers, Oreos, Ritz, Nutter Butter, Honey Maid, SnackWells, Teddy Grahams, Wheat Thins, Triscuit)
Pepperidge Farm (Campbell's)
Pringles
Quacker Oats Company
ENERGY BARS
Non-GMO
City Bar
Genisoy Bars
GoodOnya Bar
Lara Bar
Lunar Bar
Macrobars
MacroLife Naturals
Nature's Path
Nutiva
Odwalla
Uptimum Energy Bar
Organic Food Bar
Ruth's
Weil by Nature's Path Organic
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Balance bar
Nature valley Snack bars and Granola bars (General Mills)
Nabisco bars (Kraft)
PowerBar (Nestle)
Quaker Granola bars
CANDY, CHOCOLATE PRODUCTS & SEWEETENERS
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% sugar cane, evaporated sugar cane juice or organic sugar to avoid GM beet sugar, and watch out foe 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 pharmaceuticals such as vitamins and sugar-free cough drops.
Chocolate Non-GMO
Chocolove
Endangered Species Chocolate
Kopali Organics
Lindt Chocolate
Nonuttin
Candy Non-GMO
Jelly Belly
Pure Fun Confections
Reed's Crystalized Ginger and Candy (Certified organic)
Sweeteners Non-GMO
Eden
Sweet Cloud
Newman's own
Nonuttin
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Ghirardelli Chocolate
Hershey's
Nestle (Crumch, Kit Kat, Smarties)
Toblenone (Kraft)
St. Claire Organic
Sunridge Farms
May Contain GMO Ingredients
hershey's
Lifesaver (Kraft)
Nestle
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 sweetener-e.g. high fructose corn syrup-in fruit juices is cause for concern. Many sodas are primarily comprise of water and corn syrup. Look for 100-percent juice blend.
Non-GMO
After the fall organic juices
Big Island Organics
Blue Sky
Cascadian Farm
Crofters Organic
Eden
Frey Vinyards
Nancy's Organic Lowfat Kefir
Odwalla
Organic Valley
Quinoa Gold
Mixers All Natural Cocktail Mixers
R.W. Knudsen organic juices and spritzer (Smucker's)
Santa Cruz Organic (Smucker's)
Sea20 Organic Energy Drink
Teeccino Herbal Caffe
Walnut Acres Organic Juices
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Coca-Cola (Fruitopia, Minute Maid, Hi-C, Nestea)
Hansen Beverage Company Hawaiian Punch (Proctor and Gamble)
Kraft (County Time, Kool-Aid, Crystal Light, Capri Sun, Tang)
Libby's (Nestle)
Ocean Spray
Pepsi (Tropicana, Frappuccino, Gatorade, SoBe, Dole)
Sunny Delight (Procter and Gamble)
INVISIBLE GM INGREDIENTS
Processed foods often have hidden GM sources (Unless they are organic or declared non-GMO). The following are ingredients that may be made from GMO.
Aspartame
baking powder
caramel color
cellulose
citric acid
cobalamin (Vitamin B-12)
corn gluten
corn masa
corn oil
corn syrup
cornmeal
cornstarch
cyclodextrin
cystein
dextrin
dextrose
diacetyl
diglyceride
fructose (crystaline)
glucose
glutamate
glutamic acid
gluten
glycerides
glycerin
glycerol (monooleate)
glycine
hemicellulose
high fructose
corn cyrup (HFCS)
hydrogenated (starch)
hydrolysed vegetable protein
inisitol
invert sugar (colorose or inversol)
tamari
isoflavones
lactic acid
lecithin
leucine
lysine
malitol
maltodextrin
maltose
mannitol
methylcellulose
milo starch
modified starch
monosodium starch
monosodium (glutamate MSG)
oleic acid
phenyllalanine
phytic acid
sorbitol
soy flour
soy isolates
soy lecithin
soy protein
starch
stearic acid
inverse syrup
tempeh
threonine
tocopherols (vitamin E)
tofu
trehalose
triglyceride
vegetable fat
vegetable oil
vtamin B 12
vitamin E
xanthan gum.
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) although usually derived from corn, is probably not GM because it is not likely made in North America.
Last edited:
