Non-GMO

Shopping Guide
How to avoid foods
made with genetically
modified organisms
(GMOs)
 Content
Introduction & Overview 1
Fruits & Vegetables 3
Meats, Fish & Eggs 3
Alternative Meat Products 3
Dairy Products 4
Alternative Dairy Products 5
Baby Foods & Infant Formula 5
Grains, Beans & Pasta 6
Cereals & Breakfast Bars 6
Baked Goods 7
Frozen Foods 7
Soups, Sauces & Canned Foods 8
Condiments, Oils, Dressings & Spreads 9
Snack Foods 10
Candy, Chocolate Products & Sweeteners 11
Sodas, Juices & Other Beverages 12
Invisible GM Ingredients 13
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To learn more about GMOs, consult the books Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks
of Genetically Engineered Foods by Jeffrey M. Smith or Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering
and the Secret Changes in Your Food by Andrew Kimbrell. Information on GMOs is also available
at www.CenterForFoodSafety.org and www.HealthierEating.org.
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Introduction & Overview
How to avoid brands made with genetically
modified organisms (GMOs)
Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM) of food involves
the laboratory process of artificially inserting genes into the DNA of food
crops or animals. The result is called a genetically modified organism or
GMO. GMOs can be engineered with genes from bacteria, viruses, in-
sects, animals, or even humans. Most Americans say they would not eat
GMOs if labeled, but unlike most other industrialized countries, the U.S.
does not require labeling. This Non-GMO Shopping Guide is designed to
help reclaim your right to know about the foods you are buying, and help
you find and avoid GMO foods and ingredients. It does not cover other
potentially harmful ingredients, allergens, colors or additives.
Tips for avoiding GM crops
TIP #1: BUY ORGANIC
Certified organic products are not allowed to contain any GMOs. There-
fore, when you purchase products labeled “100% organic,” “organic,” or
“made with organic ingredients,” all ingredients in these products are not
allowed to be produced from GMOs. For example, products labeled as
“made with organic ingredients” only require 70% of the ingredients to be
organic, but 100% must be non-GMO.
TIP #2: LOOK FOR“NON-GMO” LABELS
Companies may voluntarily label products as “non-GMO.” Some labels
state “non-GMO” while others spell out “Made Without Genetically Modi-
fied Ingredients.” Products that carry the Non-GMO Project Seal have
third party verification as being in compliance with Non-GMO Project
standards for GMO avoidance. Some products limit their claim to only
one particular “At-Risk” ingredient such as soy lecithin, listing it as “non-
GMO.” Look for dairy products labeled ‘No rBGH or rBST,” or “artificial
hormone-free.”
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 TIP #3: AVOID AT-RISK INGREDIENTS
Avoid products made with any of the crops that are GM. Most GM ingredi-
ents are products made from the “Big Four:” corn, soybeans, canola, and
cottonseed, used in processed foods. Some of the most common geneti-
cally 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 watermelons are NOT geneti-
cally modified. Small amounts of zucchini, 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.
Meat & Fish: Non-GMO
Organic Prarie, Tropical Traditions, Vital Choice

*May be derived from other sources

Eggs: Non-GMO
Egg Innovations Organic Nest Fresh Organic
Eggland’s Best Organic Organic Valley
In addition, GM sugar beet sugar recently entered the food supply. Look Horizon Organic Pete and Jerry’s Organic Eggs
Land O’Lakes Organic Wilcox Farms Organic
for organic and non-GMO sweeteners, candy and chocolate products
made with 100% cane sugar, evaporated cane juice or organic sugar,
to avoid GM beet sugar. Sugar Anything not listed as 100% cane sugar
Alternative Meat Products
Many alternative meat products are processed and include
TIP #4: BUY PRODUCTS LISTED IN THIS SHOPPING GUIDE ingredients that can be genetically engineered, so give the
Keep this Guide with you whenever you shop. Store it inside your reus- ingredient lists close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk
able shopping bag, put into your coupon holder or check book, or leave ingredients, especially soy.
it in your car.
Non-GMO
365 Brand (Whole Foods)* The Simple Soyman
BOLD with an asterisk * denotes brands with products enrolled in the Non-GMO Project’s Amy’s Vitasoy
third party GMO Avoidance Verification Program. Bountiful Wildwood
Eco Vegan White Wave
Small Planet Tofu Woodstock Farms*
Learn more at: www.NonGMOProject.org/consumers Sunshine Burger

May contain GMO ingredients

Boca, unless organic (Kraft) Morningstar Farms, unless organic soy
Gardenburger line (Kellogg)

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 Dairy Products Alternative Dairy Products
Non-GMO
Some U.S. dairy farms inject the genetically engineered hormone rbGH, Belsoy Sun Soy
also called rbST, into their cows to boost milk production. Organic dairy EdenSoy* Stonyfield Farm O’Soy
products are rbGH-free and do not use GM grains as feed. Products Imagine Foods/Soy Dream Tofutti
Lisanatti VitaSoy/Nasoya
with label that indicates cows free of rbGH or rbST may come from cows Nancy’s Cultured Soy* WestSoy
fed GM feed. Many alternative dairy products are made from soybeans Nancy’s Organic Cultured Soy* WholeSoy*
and may contain GM materials. Organic Valley Soy* Wildwood
Pacific Natural Foods* Yves The Good Slice
Silk Zen Don
So Delicious
Dairy Products: Non-GMO
Alta Dena Organics Radiance Dairy
Butterworks Farm Safeway Organic Brand
Seven Stars Farm*
May contain GMO ingredients
Harmony Hills Dairy
8th Continent
Horizon Organic Straus Family Creamery*
Morningland Dairy Stonyfield Farm
Nancy’s Organic Dairy* Wisconsin Organics
Natural by Nature Woodstock Farms*

Baby Foods & Infant Formula

Organic Valley

Produced Without rbGH National

Milk or soy protein is the basis of most infant formulas. The secret
Alta Dena Grafton Village Cheese ingredients in these products are often soy or milk from cows injected
Belgioioso Cheese Inc. Great Hill Dairy with rbGH. Many brands also add GMO-derived corn syrup, corn syrup
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Lifetime Dairy
Brown Cow Farm Nancy’s Natural Dairy solids, or soy lecithin.
Crowley Cheese of Vermont Roth Kase USA
Dannon Walmart store brand Non-GMO
Franklin County Cheese Yoplait Baby’s Only Organic PediaSmart
Bella Baby Plum Organics
Earth’s Best Tastybaby
Gerber Wildwood
May contain GMO ingredients HapyBaby White Wave
Alta Colombo (General Mills) Parmalat Mom Made Meals Woodstock Farms*
Kemps , aside from “Select” brand Sorrento Organic Baby*
Land O’ Lakes The Country’s Best Yoghurt
May contain GMO ingredients
Beech-Nut Nestlé
Enfamil Similac/Isomil
Good Start
For regional lists of rbGH-free sources of Dairy Products:
NonGMOShoppingGuide.com
BOLD with an asterisk * denotes brands with products enrolled in the Non-GMO Project’s
third party GMO Avoidance Verification Program.
Learn more at: www.NonGMOProject.org/consumers

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 Grains, Beans & Pasta Baked Goods
Other than corn, no GM grains are sold on the market. Look for 100-per- While baking ingredients such as wheat flour, rice, kamut, and oats
cent wheat pasta, couscous, rice, quinoa, oats, barley, sorghum, and are not genetically modified, many packaged breads and bakery items
dried beans (except soybeans). contain other GMO ingredients such as corn syrup.
Non-GMO Non-GMO
Annie’s * Lundberg Family Farms* Arrowhead Mills, organic French Meadow
Bob’s Red Mill, organic Organic Planet* Bakery on Main Natural Ovens Bakery, organic
Eden* Sunridge Farms Berlin Natural Bakery* Nature’s Path*
Field Day* Vita-Spelt pasta Bob’s Red Mill, organic Rudi’s Organic Bakery
Kamut Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods Rumford Baking Powder
Dr Oetker Organics Tumaros*

Packaged Meals May Contain GMO Ingredients

Non-GMO
Amy’s
Annie’s*
Casbah (Hain-Celestial)
Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods
Fantastic Foods*
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Betty Crocker (General Mills)
Knorr (Unilever)
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese
Cereals & Breakfast Bars
Cereals and breakfast bars are very likely to include GMO ingredients,
because they are often made with corn and soy products.
Aunt Jemima (Pinnacle Foods) Duncan Hines (Pinnacle Foods)
Betty Crocker (General Mills) Hungry Jack (Smucker’s)
Ian’s Natural Foods
Calumet Baking Powder (Kraft) Pillsbury (Smucker’s)
Lotus Foods
Lundberg Farms Rice Sensations*
Rising Moon*
Seeds of Change organic meals Frozen Foods
Many frozen foods are highly processed. Keep an eye out for the Big
Lipton meal packets (Unilever)
Near East (Quaker) Four at-risk ingredients and stay away from frozen foods that contain
Pasta Roni & Rice-A-Roni meals(Quaker) them, unless they are marked organic or non-GM.
Non-GMO
A.C. LaRocco
Amy’s Kitchen
Linda McCartney
Mom Made Meals
Cascadian Farms Rising Moon*
Cedarlane The Simple Soyman
Helen’s Kitchen Woodstock Farms*
Ian’s Natural Foods

Non-GMO
Ambrosial Granola Lundberg Rice Cereal* May Contain GMO Ingredients
Barbara’s, organic Nature’s Path* Boca, unless organic (Kraft) Morningstar Farms, unless
Cascadian Farms Nonuttin’ Celeste (Pinnacle Foods) organic (Kellogg)
Eden* Omega Smart Bars Eggo Waffles (Kellogg) Rosetto Frozen Pasta (Nestle)
EnviroKidz* Peace Cereal Organic Gardenburger Stouffer’s (Nestle)
Golden Temple Ruth’s Green Giant (General Mills) Swanson (Campbell’s)
Grandy Oats Simple Sweets Healthy Choice (ConAgra) Tombstone (Kraft)
Health Valley, organic Sunridge Farms Kid’s Cuisine (ConAgra) Totino’s (Smucker’s)
Lean Cuisine (Nestle) Voila! (Birds Eye/Unilever)
Marie Callender’s (ConAgra)
May Contain GMO Ingredients
General Mills Post (Kraft)
Kellogg Quaker

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 Soups, Sauces & Canned Foods Condiments, Oils, Dressings & Spreads
Many soups and sauces are highly processed, so give the ingredient lists Unless labeled explicitly, corn, soybean, cottonseed, and canola oils
close attention to avoid the Big Four at-risk ingredients. probably contain genetically modified products. Choose pure olive, coco-
nut, sesame, sunflower, safflower, almond, grapeseed, and peanut oils.
Soups:
Also choose preserves, jams, and jellies with cane sugar, not corn syrup.
Non-GMO
Amy’s Natural/Hain
Fantastic Foods* ShariAnn’s Organics Non-GMO
Health Valley/Westbrae Walnut Acres Certified Organic Annie’s Naturals* Maranatha Nut Butters
Imagine Natural Bountiful Bean Miso Master*
Bragg’s liquid amino Muir Glen, organic ketchup
Carrington Farms Flax Seed Nasoya
May Contain GMO Ingredients Crofter’s Organic Newmans Own Organic
Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice Home, & Pepperidge Farm) Drew’s salad dressing Ruth’s
(ConAgra) Hormel products Eden* Sage Hills Farms
Campbell’s products (Healthy Request, Progresso Soups(General Mills) Emerald Cove Spectrum oils and dressings
Chunky, Simply Emerald Valley Kitchen SushiSonic Condiments*
Emperor’s Kitchen* The Simple Soyman
Field Day* Tropical Traditions
Sauces/Salsas: Follow Your Heart* Vegan by Nature Buttery Spread
Harvest Moon Mushrooms Vigoa Cuisine
Non-GMO Ian’s Natural Foods Wholemato
Amy’s Green Mountain Gringo* I.M. Health SoyNut Butters Wildwood
Annie’s* Muir Glen Organic Kettle Brand* Woodstock Farms*
Eden* Rising Moon* Krazy Ketchup
Emerald Valley Kitchen Seeds of Change pasta sauce
Field Day* Walnut Acres pasta sauce
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Crisco (Smucker’s) Pam (ConAgra)
May Contain GMO Ingredients Del Monte Peter Pan (ConAgra)
Bertolli (Unilever) Hunt’s (ConAgra) Heinz Skippy (Unilever)
Chi-Chi’s (Hormel) Old El Paso (General Mills) Hellman’s (Unilever) Smucker’s, unless “Simply 100% Fruit”
Classico (Heinz) Pace (Campbell’s) Kraft condiments and dressings Wesson (ConAgra)
Del Monte Prego (Campbell’s) Mazola Wish-Bone (Unilever)
Healthy Choice (ConAgra) Ragu (Unilever)

Canned Foods:

Non-GMO
Amy’s Westbrae, organic
Annie’s* Yves Veggie Cuisine (Hain Celestial)
Eden* Woodstock Farms*
ShariAnn’s, organic

May Contain GMO Ingredients

Chef Boyardee
Dinty Moore, Stagg, Hormel (Hormel)
Franco-American (Campbell’s)

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 Snack Foods Candy, Chocolate Products
Look for snacks made from wheat, rice, or oats, and ones that use sun- & Sweeteners
flower or safflower oils. There is no GM popcorn on the market, nor is
there blue or white GM corn. Many sweeteners, and products like candy and chocolate that contain
them, can come from GMO sources. Look for organic and non-GMO
Snacks: sweeteners, candy and chocolate products made with 100% cane sugar,
evaporated cane juice or organic sugar to avoid GM beet sugar, and watch
Non-GMO
Barbara’s, organic Late July Organic Snacks
out for soy lecithin in chocolates and corn syrup in candies. The sweeten-
Bearitos/Little Bear Organics Mary’s Gone Crackers* er aspartame is derived from GM microorganisms. It is also referred to as
(Hain Celestial) Nature’s Path* NutraSweet® and Equal® and is found in over 6,000 products, including
Earthly Treats Namaste Foods
Eco-Planet Newman’s Own Organics soft drinks, gum, candy, desserts, yogurt, tabletop sweeteners, and some
Eden* Newman’s Own, except salad dressings pharmaceuticals such as vitamins and sugar-free cough drops.
Field Day* Peeled Snacks
Garden of Eatin’ Plum Organics Tots
Grandy Oats Revolution Foods Chocolate:
Hain Pure Snax/Hain Pure Foods Ruth’s
Health Valley Simple Sweets Non-GMO
Ian’s Natural Foods Sunridge Farms Chocolove Lindt Chocolate
Kettle Brand* Tasty Brand Endangered Species* Newman’s Own
Kopali Organics Woodstock Farms* Green & Black’s Organic Nonuttin’
Kopali Organics Woodstock Farms*
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Crisco (Smucker’s) Pam (ConAgra) Candies:
Del Monte Peter Pan (ConAgra)
Heinz Skippy (Unilever)
Non-GMO
Hellman’s (Unilever) Smucker’s, unless “Simply 100% Fruit”
Jelly Belly St. Claire Organic
Kraft condiments and dressings Wesson (ConAgra)
Pure Fun Confections Sunridge Farms
Mazola Wish-Bone (Unilever)
Reed’s Ginger Candy, organic Woodstock Farms*

May Contain GMO Ingredients

Energy Bar: Hershey’s
Lifesaver (Kraft)
Non-GMO Nestlé
Clif Bar Nature’s Path*
Divine Foods Nutiva
Odwalla
Sweeteners:
Genisoy Bars
GoodOnYa Bar Optimum Energy Bar
Organic Food Bar Non-GMO
Lara Bar
Ruth’s Eden*
Luna Bar
Weil by Nature’s Path Organic Sweet Cloud* Tropical Traditions
Macrobars
Woodstock Farms*
MacroLife Naturals

May Contain GMO Ingredients

Balance Bar PowerBar (Nestle)
Nature Valley (General Mills) Quaker Granola
Nabisco Bars (Kraft)

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 Soda Juices & Other Beverages Invisible GM Ingredients
Most juices are made from GMO-free fruit (avoid papaya though, as it Processed foods often have hidden GM sources (unless they are organic
could be GMO), but the prevalence of corn-based sweeteners—e.g. high- or declared non-GMO). The following are ingredients that may be made
fructose corn syrup—in fruit juices is cause for concern. Many sodas are from GMOs..
primarily comprised of water and corn syrup. Look for 100-percent juice
blends.
Aspartame, also called glycine soy isolates
Non-GMO NutraSweet®, Equal hemicellulose soy lecithin
After the Fall Odwalla Spoonful®, Canderel®, high fructose corn soy milk
Big Island Organics Organic Valley BeneVia®, E951 syrup (HFCS) soy oil
Blue Sky PediaSmart baking soda hydrogenated starch soy protein
Cascadian Farm Quinoa Gold canola oil (rapeseed) hydrolyzed vegetable soy protein isolate
Crofters Organic R.W. Knudsen, organic (Smucker’s) caramel color protein soy sauce
Eden* Santa Cruz Organic (Smucker’s)
cellulose inositol starch
Field Day* Sea20 Organic Energy Drink
Teeccino Herbal Caffe citric acid inverse syrup stearic acid
Frey Vineyards
Mixerz All Natural Cocktail Mixers Walnut Acres Organic cobalamin (Vit. B12) invert sugar sugar (unless cane)
Nancy’s Organic Lowfat Kefir colorose inversol tamari
condensed milk isoflavones tempeh
confectioners sugar lactic acid teriyaki marinade
May Contain GMO Ingredients
Libby’s (Nestlé) corn flour lecithin textured vegetable
Coca-Cola (Fruitopia, Minute Maid,
Hi-C, NESTEA) Ocean Spray corn gluten leucine protein
Hansen Beverage Company Pepsi (Tropicana, Frappuccino, corn masa lysine threonine
Hawaiian Punch (Procter and Gamble) Gatorade, SoBe, Dole) corn meal malitol tocopherols (Vit E)
Kraft (Country Time, Kool-Aid, Crystal Sunny Delight (Procter and Gamble) corn oil malt tofu
Light, Capri Sun, Tang) corn sugar malt syrup trehalose
corn syrup malt extract triglyceride
cornstarch maltodextrin vegetable fat
cyclodextrin maltose vegetable oil
Note: This guide was compiled based on company statements, not ge- cystein mannitol Vitamin B12
netic testing. Any product labeled as Non-GMO indicates that its manu- dextrin methylcellulose Vitamin E
facturing process is designed to avoid GMOs, but consumers should be dextrose milk powder whey
diacetyl milo starch whey powder
aware that GM contamination is possible due to natural pollen movement,
diglyceride modified food starch xanthan gum
weather events, seed contamination, or human error. Hence there is no erythritol modified starch
guarantee such products are 100% free of GMOs. Equal mono and diglyceride Ascorbic acid (Vitamin
Center for Food Safety’s participation in this guide does not neces- food starch monosodium C) although usually
sarily imply endorsement fructose (any form) glutamate (MSG) derived from corn, is
glucose Nutrasweet probably not GM
glutamate oleic acid because it is not
glutamic acid Phenylalanine likely made in North
gluten phytic acid America.
glycerides protein isolate
glycerin shoyu
glycerol sorbitol
glycerol monooleate soy flour

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