Why You Should Always Read Food Labels

Yes, there's loads of information about nutrition on them, and any sensible consumer should know to read labels as a matter of course. But you should also read labels so that you notice it when a cup of peach-flavor yogurt that is supposed to be the kind that helps your heart or boosts your immune system contains a warning, for those who might be allergic to certain ingredients, that said peach yogurt contains "milk, tilapia and almonds". TILAPIA??????? I know it is a mild, if not downright bland, fish, and I'm usually a pretty adventurous eater, my distaste for most innards aside. But dear God, pureeing tilapia (I'm sure they cook it first. At least I pray they cook it first!) and sticking it in peach yogurt is just wrong. And it was listed pretty high on the ingredient label, too. Like within the top five ingredients. Ugh. It's like "Iron Chef" comes to your local Kroger. Maybe I should just invest in a nice yogurt maker. Since I'm pretty damn sure I'll never look in the freezer and think, "Hey! Those tilapia fillets are just sitting there, and I could turn them into fruit-flavored yogurt!"

I will never entirely trust a Kroger product again. At least not in the dairy case.