I am, frankly, at the stage of eating most things raw or very lightly cooked, and avoiding most processed foods. Crackers and breads have waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much salt, let alone chips and soda. It's amazing.
I've also discovered a couple of soda types that have cane sugar; it easier on my system. Apparently, genetically modified corn is responsible for my type 2 diabetes, or mostly. Even fruit juice doesn't destroy my system the way that anything with corn sugar does. I end up adding regular raisins to bran flakes so that I can avoid the sugar coating on raisin bran. Eating out is a minefield, and I tend to stick a jar of real maple syrup in my bag when going out for breakfast, to avoid the corn sugar. There is an English product that is cane syrup, but I can't find it anymore. There is enough sugar in tomatoes without adding more, and I tend to cook that stuff.
It's amazing to me why processed foods are eaten so often. They don't taste right to me anymore, and the fact is that sugar-free or low-salt means that they usually have other chemicals to make up for the lack.
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