What’s Hiding in Your Family’s Sausages?
Your family’s sausages may contain far less meat than you think. Some are made mostly from meat, herbs and spices. Others are padded out with starches, fillers, sweeteners, flavours, colours and preservatives. Real Food Rat
Check the Label: 7 Preservatives Hiding in Everyday Foods and How to Spot Them!
They’re hiding in everyday foods, from bread and wraps to yoghurt, snacks and processed meats. While some preservatives play an important role in food safety, others are primarily used to keep highly processed products look
HOW TO CHOOSE A REAL FOOD BREAD
Before we start, let me be honest. Truly simple, traditionally made bread is not always easy to find in an Australian supermarket. Many packaged loaves contain refined flour, added gluten, modified starches, emulsifiers, pres
Updated: The Best and Worst Spreads for Families: A Real Food Rating Guide
Spreads are one of the biggest contributors of hidden sugar, sodium and ultra-processed ingredients in the family diet. From Vegemite and jam to peanut butter and chocolate spreads, these products are often eaten every day, m
Microplastics in Your Food: 7 Simple Ways Families Can Reduce Exposure!
Microplastics are no longer just an environmental issue; they’re increasingly becoming a food and public health concern. Researchers are now detecting microplastics throughout the environment, including oceans, waterways, a
The Ultimate Australian Rice Guide: What to Buy, Where to Buy It, and How to Make It Work for Your Family!
Let's settle this once and for all. Rice is one of the most contested foods in the modern wellness conversation, simultaneously celebrated as a clean whole food and criticised as a blood sugar spike waiting to happen. Parent
The 2026 Dirty Dozen & Clean Fifteen: Your Real Food Shopping Guide
Each year, the Environmental Working Group, or EWG, releases its Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce, using the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture residue testing data to rank conventionally grown produce by pestici
The Halloween Experiment Every Parent Needs to Try (Before the Sugar Crash Hits)
Halloween is one of the most exciting nights of the year for kids, dressing up, heading out with friends, and filling their trick-or-treating buckets with colourful sweets. But for many parents, what happens afterwards isn’
Additive Awareness Series: The Ultimate Hidden Sugar Cheat Sheet – How to Outsmart Hidden Sugar Labels
They’re marketed as healthy. They’re loaded into lunchboxes. And they’re a go-to snack for busy parents. But most supermarket muesli bars are not the nourishing snack you think they are. In fact, some of them are so ult
The Muesli Bar Truth: What I Found After Rating 25+ Aussie Snack Bars (And Which Ones I’d Actually Give My Kids)
They’re marketed as healthy. They’re loaded into lunchboxes. And they’re a go-to snack for busy parents. But most supermarket muesli bars are not the nourishing snack you think they are. In fact, some of them are so ult