I totally agree! I am always telling people to read the label. I also tell them if you cannot pronounce the name of the ingredient, maybe you shouldn’t be eating it.

But always do your homework and find out what those additives are. I caution people to know what they eat. There are so many obese people out there and as people have been stating one way or another in this thread, most obesity is diet related.

Do you add sugar to your cookies?
If you answer yes, you’d best speed dial Robert Lustig regarding how toxic the stuff really is.
Fact is , if you think giving cookies to kids is a swell idea, best think again.
In the last 100 odd years sugar consumption per capita has gone berserk.
If we call all refined carbs sugar, exactly all the same stuff chemically, people today are eating well over 1000% more of the stuff than 150 years ago. Fact is , in 1900 a career as a heart specialist was deemed a dead future. Fast forward to 2020 and todays Zip diets and CVD specialist are in star demand with cancer specialists. Whole Carbs are 100% ok. Refined Carbs are 100% bad news. Ancel Keys was 100% dead wrong about his claimed high carb diets.
Eskimo’s lived for 1000’s of years on 85% animal fat diets, if saturated fats were lethal as claimed by Corporate Owned Big Inc they would have become extinct. Sadly, it is the Glorious Western approved rubbish killing them today.
Do some homework on these 5 modern main stays
1/ Refined salts. Natural salts cause zero blood pressure issues.
2/ All refined carbs(cereals, breads,pasta,pizza, noodles,white flour, white rice etc convert to fats as soon as consumed. Only whole foods with skins slow this process.
3/ Juicing. The biggest con of all time. Exactly the same process as eating cups of sugar!!
4/ Washing, washing, washing. Since covid-19 the world has gone nuts on washing.
this is another Big Inc Myth. Inside and outside your body are trillions of Microbes. Without them you would be dead or dying. Washing with any Antibacterial products is slow suicide.
5/ Slow down all forms of cancers by adding at least these 3 minerals every day of your life.
Iodine, Mg and Selenium(helps absorb the Iodine)
Final note of interest. Without fats in your diet(real fats not Frankenfats) your body cannot absorb minerals. Low fat diets are official slow suicide treatments nothing else.
If you even suffer a single health issue your life is already in Peril.
Read Cookies as equal damage to the body as booze without the Kick. Never give to kids!!

Of course, there are lots of reasons to avoid vegetable shortening, both dietary and because of environmental impact, but those are completely separate issues.

Thanks for sharing!