INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW

CONTENTS
Introduction & Overview 1 How to avoid brands made with genetically
modified organisms (GMOs)
Fruits & Vegetables 3
Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM) is the
Meats, Fish & Eggs 3 laboratory process of artificially manipulating or inserting
Alternative Meat Products 3 genes into the DNA of food crops or animals. The result is
called a genetically modified organism or GMO. GMOs can be
Dairy Products 4 engineered with genes from bacteria, viruses, insects, animals
Alternative Dairy Products 5 or even humans. Most Americans say they would not eat GMOs
if labeled, but unlike most other industrialized countries, the
Baby Foods & Infant Formula 5
U.S. does not require labeling.
Grains, Beans & Pasta 6
This Non-GMO Shopping Guide is designed to help reclaim
Cereals & Breakfast Bars 6 your right to know about the foods you are buying, and help
Baked Goods 7 you find and avoid GMO foods and ingredients.

Frozen Foods 7 Tips for avoiding GM crops

Soups, Sauces & Canned Foods 8
❧ TIP #1: BUY ORGANIC
Condiments, Oils, Dressings & Spreads 9
Certified organic products are not allowed to contain any
Snack Foods 10 GMOs. Therefore, when you purchase products labeled “100%
Candy, Chocolate Products & Sweeteners 11 organic,” “organic,” or “made with organic” ingredients, all
ingredients in these products are not allowed to be GMO. (For
Sodas, Juices & Other Beverages 12 example, products labeled as “made with organic ingredi-
Invisible GM Ingredients 13 ents” only require 70% of the ingredients to be organic, but
100% must be non-GMO.)
To learn more about GMOs, consult the books Genetic Roulette: The
Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods by Jeffrey M. ❧ TIP #2: LOOK FOR“NON-GMO” LABELS
Smith or Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes
in Your Food by Andrew Kimbrell. Information on GMOs is also available Companies may voluntarily label products as “non-GMO.”
at www.centerforfoodsafety.org and www.HealthierEating.org. Some labels state “non-GMO” while others spell out “Made
Copyright 2008 Center for Food Safety and Institute for Responsible Without Genetically Modified Ingredients.” Some products
Technology. No part of this booklet may be reproduced in any form with- limit their claim to only one particular “At-Risk” ingredient
out written permission from both parties. such as soy lecithin, listing it as “non-GMO.”
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❧ TIP #3: AVOID AT-RISK INGREDIENTS
Avoid products made with any of the crops that are GM. Most
GM ingredients are products made from the “Big Four:” corn,
soybeans, canola, and cottonseed, used in processed foods.
Some of the most common genetically engineered Big Four
ingredients in processed foods are:
Corn
■ Corn flour, meal, oil, starch, gluten, and syrup
■ Sweeteners such as fructose, dextrose, and glucose
■ Modified food starch*
Soy
■ Soy flour, lecithin, protein, isolate, and isoflavone
■ Vegetable oil* and vegetable protein*
Canola Canola oil (also called rapeseed oil)
Cotton Cottonseed oil
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
Very few fresh fruits and vegetables for sale in the U.S. are
genetically modified. Novel products such as seedless water-
melons are NOT genetically modified. Small amounts of zuc-
chini, yellow crookneck squash and sweet corn may be GM.
The only commercialized GM fruit is papaya from Hawaii—
about half of Hawaii’s papayas are GM.
MEAT, FISH & EGGS
No genetically modified fish, fowl, or livestock is yet approved
for human consumption. However, plenty of non-organic foods
are produced from animals raised on GM feed such as grains.
Look for wild rather than farmed fish to avoid fish raised on
genetically modified feed, and 100% grass-fed animals.
Eggs: Non-GMO Nest Fresh Organic
Egg Innovations Organic Organic Valley
Eggland’s Best Organic Pete and Jerry’s Organic Eggs
Land O’Lakes Organic Wilcox Farms Organic

*May be derived from other sources ALTERNATIVE MEAT PRODUCTS

In addition, GM sugar beets may soon enter the food supply. Many alternative meat products are processed and include
To avoid products containing GM beet sugar, look for products ingredients that can be genetically engineered, so give the
labeled as containing 100% cane sugar, evaporated cane ingredient lists close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk
juice, or products made with organic sugar. ingredients, especially soy.
Non-GMO May contain GMO ingredients
❧ TIP #4: BUY PRODUCTS LISTED IN THIS
SHOPPING GUIDE 365 Brand (Whole Foods) Boca, unless labeled organic (Kraft)
Amy’s Kitchen Gardenburger
Keep this Guide with you whenever you shop. Store it inside Sunshine Burger Morningstar Farms, Morningstar Farms
your reusable shopping bag, put into your coupon holder or Vitasoy Natural Touch, unless labeled organic
check book, or leave it in your car. Wildwood (Kellogg)
White Wave

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DAIRY PRODUCTS & May contain GMO ingredients
Colombo (General Mills) Land O’ Lakes
ALTERNATIVE DAIRY PRODUCTS Dannon Parmalat
Some U.S. dairy farms inject the genetically engineered hor- Kemps (aside from Sorrento
mone rbGH, also called rbST, into their cows to boost milk “Select” brand) Yoplait (General Mills)
production—so be sure to purchase products with a label that
Alternative Dairy Products
indicates cows free of rbGH or rbST. Many alternative dairy prod-
ucts are made from soybeans and may contain GM materials. Non-GMO Stonyfield Farm O’Soy
Belsoy Tofutti
Dairy Products: Non-GMO EdenSoy VitaSoy/Nasoya
Imagine Foods/Soy Dream WestSoy
Certified Organic West Coast
Nancy’s Cultured Soy WholeSoy
Alta Dena Organics Alpenrose Dairy
Pacific Soy Yves The Good Slice
Butterworks Farm Berkeley Farms
Silk Zen Don
Harmony Hills Dairy Clover Stornetta Farms
Joseph Farms Cheese Soy Delicious May contain GMO
Horizon Organic
Sunshine Dairy Foods Sun Soy ingredients
Morningland Dairy
Natural by Nature Tillamook Cheese 8th Continent
Organic Valley Dairy Wilcox Family Farms
Radiance Dairy Midwest and Gulf States
Safeway Organic Brand Chippewa Valley Cheese
Seven Stars Farm Erivan Dairy Yogurt
Straus Family Creamery
Stonyfield Farm
Promised Land Dairy BABY FOODS & INFANT FORMULA
Westby Cooperative Creamery
Wisconsin Organics Milk or soy protein is the basis of most infant formulas. The
East Coast
Produced Without rbGH secret ingredients in these products are often soy or milk from
Blythedale Farm Cheese
National cows injected with rbGH. Many brands also add GMO-derived
Crescent Creamery
Alta Dena corn syrup, corn syrup solids, or soy lecithin.
Derle Farms (milk with
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream “no rbST” label only)
Brown Cow Farm Non-GMO May contain GMO
Erivan Dairy Yogurt ingredients
Crowley Cheese of Vermont Baby’s Only
Farmland Dairies
Franklin County Cheese (certified organic products) Beech-Nut
Oakhurst Dairy
Grafton Village Cheese Earth’s Best Enfamil
Wilcox Dairy (rbST-free
Great Hill Dairy Gerber products Good Start
dairy line only)
Lifetime Dairy Organic Baby Nestlé
Similac/Isomil

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GRAINS, BEANS & PASTA BAKED GOODS
Other than corn, no GM grains are sold on the market. Look for While baking ingredients such as wheat flour, rice, kamut, and
100-percent wheat pasta, couscous, rice, quinoa, oats, barley, oats are not genetically modified, many packaged breads and
sorghum, and dried beans (except soybeans). bakery items contain other GMO ingredients such as corn syrup.
Non-GMO Lundberg Farms Rice Sensations Non-GMO May Contain GMO
Organic Planet Arrowhead Mills (organic line) Ingredients
Annie’s Natural Pasta
Bob’s Red Mill (organic line) Seeds of Change certified Bakery on Main Aunt Jemima (Pinnacle Foods)
Eden certified organic grains organic boxed meals Bob’s Red Mill (organic line) Betty Crocker (General Mills)
Vita-Spelt pasta Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods Calumet Baking Powder (Kraft)
May Contain GMO
Eden Organics Duncan Hines (Pinnacle Foods)
Packaged Meals Ingredients
Rumford Baking Powder Hungry Jack (Smucker’s)
Betty Crocker meals Pillsbury (Smucker’s)
Non-GMO (General Mills)
Amy’s Kitchen Knorr (Unilever)
Annie’s Homegrown certified Kraft Macaroni & Cheese meals FROZEN FOODS
organic macaroni & cheese Lipton meal packets (Unilever) Many frozen foods are highly processed. Keep an eye out for the
Casbah (Hain-Celestial) Near East (Quaker)
Big Four at-risk ingredients and stay away from frozen foods
Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods Pasta Roni and Rice-A-Roni
Fantastic Foods
that contain them, unless they are marked organic or non-GM.
meals (Quaker)
Lotus Foods Non-GMO Green Giant frozen meals
A.C. LaRocco (General Mills)
CEREALS & BREAKFAST BARS Amy’s Kitchen Healthy Choice (ConAgra)
Barbara’s Certified Organic Kid’s Cuisine (ConAgra)
Cereals and breakfast bars are very likely to include GMO ingre- Lean Cuisine (Nestle)
Cascadian Farms Organic frozen
dients, because they are often made with corn and soy products. Marie Callender’s (ConAgra)
meals and vegetables
Non-GMO: May Contain GMO Cedarlane Morningstar Farms, Morningstar
Ingredients Linda McCartney frozen meals Farms Natural Touch, unless
Barbara’s (organic line)
labeled organic (Kellogg)
Cascadian Farms General Mills May Contain GMO Rosetto Frozen Pasta (Nestle)
EnviroKidz Kellogg Ingredients Stouffer’s (Nestle)
Health Valley (organic line) Post (Kraft)
Boca, unless labeled organic Swanson (Campbell’s)
Nature’s Path Quaker
(Kraft) Tombstone (Kraft)
Omega Smart Bars
Celeste (Pinnacle Foods) Totino’s (Smucker’s)
Peace Cereal Organic
Eggo Waffles (Kellogg) Voila! (Birds Eye/Unilever)
Gardenburger

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SOUPS, SAUCES & CANNED FOODS Canned Food
Non-GMO May Contain GMO
Many soups and sauces are highly processed and include
ingredients that can be genetically modified, so give the Amy’s Kitchen Ingredients
Annie’s Natural Chef Boyardee
ingredient lists close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk
ShariAnn’s certified organic beans Dinty Moore, Stagg, Hormel
ingredients.
Westbrae certified organic beans (Hormel)
Yves Veggie Cuisine Franco-American (Campbell’s)
Soups May Contain GMO
(Hain Celestial)
Ingredients
Non-GMO
Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice
Amy’s Soups (ConAgra) CONDIMENTS, OILS, DRESSINGS
Fantastic Foods
Health Valley/Westbrae
Campbell’s products (including
Healthy Request, Chunky,
& SPREADS
Imagine Natural Simply Home, and Pepperidge Unless labeled explicitly, corn, soybean, cottonseed, and
Natural/Hain Farm) canola oils probably contain genetically modified products.
ShariAnn’s Organics Hormel products Choose pure olive, coconut, sesame, sunflower, safflower,
Walnut Acres certified organic Progresso products almond, grapeseed and peanut oils. Also choose preserves,
(General Mills) jams, and jellies with cane sugar, not corn syrup.

Sauces/Salsas May Contain GMO Non-GMO May Contain GMO

Ingredients
Non-GMO
Bertolli (Unilever)
Annie’s Natural
Chi-Chi’s (Hormel)
Green Mountain Gringo &
Classico (Heinz)
certified-organic salsa
Del Monte
Muir Glen Organic pasta sauce
Healthy Choice (ConAgra)
& salsa
Hunt’s (ConAgra)
Seeds of Change certified-
Old El Paso (General Mills)
organic pasta sauce
Pace (Campbell’s)
Walnut Acres certified-organic
Prego (Campbell’s)
pasta sauce
Ragu (Unilever)
Annie’s Ingredients
Bragg’s liquid amino Crisco (Smucker’s)
Drew’s salad dressing Del Monte
Emerald Cove Heinz
Emperor’s Kitchen Hellman’s (Unilever)
Harvest Moon Mushrooms Kraft condiments and dressings
I.M. Health SoyNut Butters Mazola
Maranatha Nut Butters Pam (ConAgra)
Miso Master Peter Pan (ConAgra)
Muir Glen organic Skippy (Unilever)
tomato ketchup Smucker’s (except their “Simply
Nasoya 100% Fruit” line of preserves)
Spectrum oils and dressings Wesson (ConAgra)
SushiSonic Asian Condiments Wish-Bone (Unilever)
Vegan by Nature Buttery Spreads
Vigoa Cuisine

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 SNACK FOODS CANDY, CHOCOLATE PRODUCTS
Many snack foods contain ingredients, especially oils, derived & SWEETENERS
from the Big Four at-risk crops. Look for snacks made from
Many sweeteners, and products like candy and chocolate that
wheat, rice, or oats, and ones that use sunflower or safflower
contain them, can come from GMO sources. Look for organic
oils. There is no GM popcorn on the market, nor is there blue
and non-GMO sweeteners, candy and chocolate products
or white GM corn.
made with 100% cane sugar, evaporated cane juice or organ-
Snacks May Contain GMO ic sugar to avoid GM beet sugar, and watch out for soy lecithin
Ingredients in chocolates, and corn syrup in candies.
Non-GMO
FritoLay (Lay’s, Ruffles, Doritos,
Barbara’s (organic line) The sweetener aspartame is derived from GM microorganisms.
Cheetos, Tostitos)
Bearitos/Little Bear Organics It is also referred to as NutraSweet® and Equal® and is found
Hostess Products
(Hain Celestial) in over 6,000 products, including soft drinks, gum, candy,
(Interstate Brands)
Garden of Eatin’ desserts, yogurt, tabletop sweeteners, and some pharmaceu-
Keebler (Kellogg’s)
Hain Pure Snax/Hain Pure Foods
Kraft (Nabisco, Nilla Wafers, ticals such as vitamins and sugar-free cough drops.
Health Valley
Oreos, Ritz, Nutter Butter,
Kettle Foods Chocolate
Honey Maid, SnackWells,
Nature’s Path Organic Non-GMO
Teddy Grahams, Wheat May Contain GMO
Namaste Foods
Thins, Triscuit) Chocolove Ingredients
Newman’s Own Organics &
Pepperidge Farm (Campbell’s) Endangered Species Chocolate Hershey’s
Newman’s Own
Pringles Ghirardelli Chocolate Nestlé (Crunch, Kit Kat, Smarties)
(except salad dressing)
Quaker Oats Company Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate Toblerone (Kraft)
Newman’s Own

Candy
Non-GMO May Contain GMO
Energy Bars May Contain GMO
Ingredients Jelly Belly Ingredients
Non-GMO Reed’s Crystallized Ginger Hershey’s
Balance Bar
Clif Bar candy (certified organic) Lifesaver (Kraft)
Nature Valley snack bars and
Genisoy Bars St. Claire Organic Nestlé
granola bars (General Mills)
Luna Bar
Nabisco Bars (Kraft) Sweetners
Lara Bar
PowerBar (Nestle)
Nutiva Macrobars Non-GMO
Quaker Granola Bars
Odwalla Sweet Cloud
Optimum Energy Bar
Weli by Nature’s Path Organic
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 SODAS, JUICES INVISIBLE GM INGREDIENTS
& OTHER BEVERAGES Processed foods often have hidden GM sources (unless they
are organic or declared non-GMO). The following are ingredi-
Most juices are made from GMO-free fruit (avoid papaya
ents that may be made from GMOs.
though, as it could be GMO), but the prevalence of corn-based
sweeteners—e.g. high-fructose corn syrup—in fruit juices is
cause for concern. Similarly, many sodas are primarily com-
prised of water and corn syrup. Look for 100-percent juice Aspartame glycerin milo starch
blends. baking powder glycerol modified starch
caramel color glycerol monosodium
Non-GMO May Contain GMO cellulose monooleate glutamate MSG
After the Fall organic juices Ingredients citric acid glycine oleic acid
Big Island Organics Blue Sky Natural Beverage cobalamin hemicellulose Phenylalanine
Blue Sky Organic soda Company (Vitamin B12) high fructose phytic acid
Cascadian Farm Coca-Cola (Fruitopia, Minute corn gluten corn syrup sorbitol
Crofters Organic Maid, Hi-C, NESTEA) corn masa (HFCS) soy flour
Eden Hansen Beverage Company corn oil hydrogenated soy isolates
Haiku Organic Japanese Teas Hawaiian Punch starch
corn syrup soy lecithin
Knudsen organic juices and (Procter and Gamble) hydrolyzed veg-
cornmeal soy protein
spritzers (Smucker’s) Kraft (Country Time, Kool-Aid, etable protein
cornstarch starch
Odwalla Crystal Light, Capri Sun, Tang) inositol
cyclodextrin stearic acid
One World organic black teas Libby’s (Nestlé) invert sugar
cystein (colorose or inverse syrup
Quinoa Gold Ocean Spray
Santa Cruz Organic (Smucker’s) Pepsi (Tropicana, Frappuccino, dextrin inversol) tempeh
Sea2o Organic Energy Drink Gatorade, SoBe, Dole) dextrose tamari threonine
Teeccino Herbal Caffe Sunny Delight (Procter and diacetyl isoflavones tocopherols
Walnut Acres Organic Juices Gamble) diglyceride lactic acid (Vitamin E)
fructose lecithin tofu
SPECIAL NOTE: This guide was compiled based on company fructose leucine trehalose
statements, not genetic testing. Any product labeled as Non- (crystalline) lysine triglyceride
GMO indicates that it’s manufacturing process is designed to glucose malitol vegetable fat
avoid GMOs, but consumers should be aware that GM contam- glutamate maltodextrin vegetable oil
ination is possible due to natural pollen movement, weather glutamic acid maltose Vitamin B12
events, seed contamination, or human error. Hence there is gluten mannitol Vitamin E
no guarantee such products are 100% free of GMOs. glycerides methylcellulose xanthan gum

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