Since President Obama has made such great efforts to make food chain safer...I am writing my first of many to come letters about issues that are wide spread...but must be corrected.
And when they are corrected, all Americans will be healthier and the over all spending budget of both the Federal & State Governments on Health Care and Insurance for employees and for all citizens will decrease as well as the health costs for individuals and the American Family.
My husband & I have been purchasing and eating your Idaho Spuds Classic Mashed Potato Flakes for years.
But only because your competitors put even more junk in theirs than you do; though their labels do not deceive as your labels do deceive! And any company who deceives their consumer buyers will eventually fail.
This is biblical.
And while I am very disappointed in what I have discovered about your product and your company...I am challenging you to correct these things and when you do...
For deep spiritual reasons larger companies such as KRAFT Nabisco etc will eventually fall crumble just as banks failed & were bailed out.
Any company who is successful because of what they hide from their consumer eventually will fold and die.
The American people will not vote again for such a major bail out of any company....
When you change your methods & remove from your product "hidden ingredients"..
Your company will be the new emerging Food Industry Leader when you embrace my suggestions and carry them out.
For all of these many years I have cooked with your product believing that there existed no weird additives.
And now that God has MIRACULOUSLY given my the ability to read with understanding & opened my once were physically blind eyes I see that I was once been deceived.
Having only 20 MG of sodium/salt and William & I both need to keep our salt down for different health reasons...we bought & eaten your Idaho Spuds. Certainly that figure is much higher.
William is a Vietnam Veteran Suffering from Agent Orange disease, and tinnitus ear-ringing...needs his salt very low for both salt & caffeine increase the intensity of the ringing.
And it infuriates me that not only is our government slow to give him his benefits, but I as a wife cannot even know because of false labeling in Food Industry and the lack of enforcement of existing regulations...such as Title 21 and others President Obama has signed into Law.
My blood pressure can remain healthy without medication only if I weed out salt from my diet.
So at first glance your label always seemed so perfect as even your website now in BOLD letters claims your products to be "Naturally GLUTEN FREE" Then in Red:
NO ADDITIVES---NO PRESERVATIVES---GLUTEN--FREE
Yet in actuality your product is not.
If true there would be only one ingredient: Idaho Potato Flakes in the container for real.
But you list Sodium Acid PYROPHOSPHATE: Freshness then: PRESERVED WITH Sodium Bisulfite & BHA.
I google searched definitions of these.
BHA is a synthetic man made not natural antioxidant " C 11 H 16 O 2" created in a test tube which is used to preserve Fats and oils in food.
However, you are selling this as a Natural Fat Free Food, which potatoes are, so you are adding fats for taste such as butter then adding not one but 3 preservatives to preserve the Fat which you should not add and by not adding it you actually lengthen your products' shelf life without additives.
I read FDA Title 21 and many other things President Obama has signed into law and recognize that you are not complying and thus I am sending this to the FDA also.
I understand why Sodium Acid PYROPHOSPHATE is in foods such as JELLO which there could not possibly be anyone on earth who thinks JELLO is a "Natural Food of the earth" so if they choose to eat Artificial foods...at least they know that they are eating synthetics which in large quantities over time can harm them.
But with Idaho Spuds people believe that they are eating Natural Potatoes that have merely been peeled for us and flaked with a peeler machinery for convenience...
But is not the pure product it appears and this is deception.
If you merely correct your website and cartons by removing the misleading information you will grievously fail because you will make yourself exactly like the rest of Food Companies who are big and do not really care about their products, or the people who eat them...
They only care that their product sells.
I challenge you to actually remove the Fat you are adding & preserving and the preservatives and thus make yourself an emerging leader in the Food Industry.
I thank you. I thank you Lisa & Dr. Margaret for taking the time and effort also to take action in this concern of mine which others I know are also concerned, however do not have the understanding and ability to both decipher the labeling, research and find how to contact you.
And when I witness the wonderful job I anticipate these concerns of mine resolved... I will then write you about some serious health risks concerns at VA Hospital Clinics that are also sinful.
Mr & Mrs William Gustavson
PO BOX 1144
Ponchatoula, LA 70454
