Really Bad Ingredients

This page is on some of the worse ingredients on supermarket labels.  My list starts here (I'll try to add 1 or 2 new things each week.)

1: Anything with the word hydrogenated (especially partially hydrogenated) means trans fats. (0 grams of anything measured in grams instead of milligrams mean less than .5 grams.)

2: According to Eat This, Not That! For Kids! (and their best and worst foods in america book), sugar, maltose, sorghum, sorbitol*, saccharin**, sucralose**, aspartame**, acesulfame potassium**, mannitol*, xylitol*, dextrose, lactose, fructose, high-fructose corn syrup, glucose, molasses, brown rice sugar, fruit juice, turbinado, barley malt, honey, and organic cane juice are all forms of sugar or sweeteners with sugars.  (You'll probably have trouble remembering all that.)  Please note that while sugar is something that should be consumed, it should not be consumed too much.
*These are sugar alcohols, which are not technically sugar, but sweeteners that can cause digestive problems.  Just about anything that ends with "-ol" is a sugar alcohol.
**These are zero-calorie artificial sweeteners.  Side effects have been found in all of them except for sucralose.  I don't mean eat sucralose instead of sugar.  There could be undiscovered side effects.

3: Anything in the form color # number or color number is an artificial coloring.  The side effects vary.

4: Artificial Flavoring refers to any of a lot of different chemicals.  Because of this, there are many different possible side effects.

5: High fructose corn syrup is a sweetener that has 50% glucose and 50% fructose (they might as well have named it high glucose corn syrup.  On the other hand, it has more fructose than regular corn syrup, which is 100% glucose.)  On the internet, different studies give different information.  Some say it's just as good (and bad) as table sugar and some say it's worse.  The most popular product that contains it is Coke.

6: You should have some salt, but not too much.  Salt is way too common in America, and Asian dishes tend to contain a whole lot of salt.

7: Imitation Mozzarella has a hydrogenated oils as its first ingredient.

8: Weird-sounding things (like monosodium glutamate) are generally unhealthy.

9: Vegetable Powder, while not unhealthy, does not count as a full serving of vegetables.

10: This might not need resaying, but don't eat sucralose.  There might not be any discovered side effects, but do you really want to eat a lab-made chemical that's made by blasting other chemicals together?

11: BHT is a preservative.  On the ingredients list, you might see "BHT added to preserve freshness."  While there might not be any side effects, it's still a weird chemical.  It's probably not ultra bad.  Just don't eat too much of it.