Food Rules-Day 6: Avoid Food Products that Contain More than 5 Ingredients

The specific number you adopt is arbitrary, but the more ingredients in a packaged food, the more highly processed it probably is.  Note 1: A long list of ingredients in a recipe is not the same thing; that's fine.  Note 2:  Some products now boast, somewhat deceptively, about their short ingredients lists.  Haagen-Dazs has a new line of ice cream called "five".  Great-but it's still ice cream.  Sames goes for the three-ingredient Tostitos corn chips advertised by Frito-Lay - okay, but they're still corn chips.  In such cases, apply rule 60 for dealing with treats and special occasion foods.