Monday, March 10, 2008

Eating a green breakfast

Everything these days seems to be going organic.

Anything that you can dream of is going organic and that is starting with some of todays favorite breakfast foods, the pop tart. The pop tart now has now gone organic. It is labeled as USDA approved just like other organic products of its nature. The question that i raised is why it is not seen more often. When you go down the breakfast isle you won't see any pop tarts listed as organic. I had to go to Fry's and look down a special organic isle they had away from all the other food. It may be more benifical and helpful to try to get the organic food into the market by placing it with the others of its kind. If someone is deciding on what to buy in a store and checking out pop tarts and they see an organic kind and a regular kind right next to each other then the odds of them getting organic increase greatly.

The nutrition facts of the pop tart were all the same as the regular ones for the most part. There was no real significant difference. Obviously all of the ingredients were listed as organic, but for the most part all of the ingredients were also very similar as the normal ones. The Organic pop tarts were a little more expensive then the regular kind, but not too bad.

Sean Stull, who buys regular poptarts says he doesn't really care what kind of pop tart he gets. "I would get an organic pop tart if it were cheaper then the regular kind," said Stull. "As long as it all tastes the same then it is fine by me, especially if its better for me."

Another fun product that was noticed was an organic type of nutrigrain bar as well. It tasted exactly the same as a normal product and had all the same nutritional value as well.


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