Orange Junk Food

The other day RantWoman succumbed to her neighborhood franchise sandwich provider's invitation to fortify her sensible protein whole grain bread veggies sandwich with the sugar salt starch grease and fizz upgrade, with caffeine to boot. RantWoman in fact chose the orange junk food option! Ordinarily RantWoman probably would not share this sort of nutritional peccadillo, er mortal sin, with the whole internet. However, RantWoman was giving her eyeballs just about their quota of squinting at normal print just reading the nutritional information on the package. RantWoman found yet another horrifying instance of the world going to pot all around her: her orange junk food contained NO vitamin A.

Time WAS, sometime between the last dinosaur age and the present, when orange junk food included not only B vitamins from the grain and vitamin E from the fat and even a smidgen of iron and more calcium but also enough vitamin A to convince some that the orange junk food should be considered nearly as healthful as a whole bowl of green leafies. The vitamin A came in the form of beta carotene used as a coloring agent. RantWoman's orange junk food was astoundingly orange. It contained perfectly fabulous elements of grease and salt. The label even mentioned more than trace amounts of iron and better yet calcium. But there was NO Vitamin A!

Next thing you know...