Peanut-flavored sugar oil doesn’t have quite the same ring, but it’s far more accurate a name than your average peanut butter. What shouldn’t contain added sugar typically has at least two types, plus partially hydrogenated oil (code for trans fat). What should be on the ingredients list Peanuts. Period.

Ingredients Peanut butter [roasted peanuts, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oils (cottonseed and rapeseed), molasses, salt, partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil], sugar, and honey

Frozen Dairy Desserts

'Frozen Dairy Desserts' Posing as Ice Cream
Gone are the good ol’ days of ice cream. Now, we’re forced to shovel down spoonfuls of frozen dairy dessert, which can’t legally be called ice cream without containing at least 10% milk fat, according to this depressing New York Times lament of ice cream lost. What frozen dairy dessert does contain is plenty of corn syrup, gums, and whey.

Ingredients Milk, sugar, corn syrup, cream, whey, mono and diglycerides, carob bean gum, guar gum, carrageenan, natural flavor, annatto (for color), vitamin A palmitate, Tara gum

Egg Substitutes

Egg Substitutes
Eggs are one ingredient. But creating a faux version of them takes 20. Thankfully, eggs top the ingredient list, but it goes downhill from there the very next ingredient is a proprietary blend of natural flavor to conjure up egginess.

Ingredients Egg whites (99%), less than 1% of the following natural flavor, color (includes beta carotene), spices, salt, onion powder, vegetable gums (xanthan gum, guar gum). Vitamins and minerals calcium (sulfate), iron (ferric phosphate), vitamin E (alpha tocopherol acetate), zinc (sulfate), calcium pantothenate, vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B1 (thiamine mononitrate), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), vitamin B12, folic acid, vitamin D3, biotin