Garry Barker, reporting for The Age
IN THE old days — just after the dinosaurs departed and we got flush toilets, and biscuits came in tins and the grocer was good for a tuppenny bag of broken ones to take to school — who made the bikkies and what they contained were not on our juvenile radar.
But now, grocers have been swamped by supermarkets and the little old lady in her country kitchen that features on so many food labels is actually a giant corporation. Thus, it is not always easy to know what’s good and what might only look good in the food we buy.
