Are we largely being conned in the retail food industry ?

Yes we are all the time, the wording is often set to receive as well things like saying low fat when there is twice as much sugar to compensate .Things used to be so simple when everything was bought at the butcher and at the grocery shop where it was all weighed out and you knew exactly what you were buying,yes I can just about remember those days when my Mum was given a chair to sit on and read out her list and the grocer weighed and put everything into brown bags. we used to grow alot of our veg and bought the rest at the green grocer ,oh dear , sounding like a grumpy old woman now !!