WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A NATURAL FOOD?

 

 

Natural Food: A Natural Food is a single food product or a part thereof, which is not a blend of foods, that is free of additional ingredients and that has not been significantly altered in its chemical, physical or biological state. Accordingly, no synthetic ingredients should be added to the food and there should only be minimal processing.

 

A Natural Food shall only pass a food process as follows:

1. Aeration

2. Agglomeration (with no chemical change and without chemical additives)

3. Blending of a single food product, or part of a single food product

4. Centrifugation

5. Cheesing without a chemical additive

6. Chilling

7. Churning

8. Clarifying without chemical change

9. Cleaning without chemical change

10. Concentration

11. Deboning

12. Decreasing size by cutting, coarse milling, crushing, milling, and grinding

13. Dehydration (including freezing)

14. Enzymatic fraction

15. Extrusion

16. Fat Removal without chemical change

17. Fermentation

18. Filtration

19. Flaking

20. Flocculation

21. Forming

22. Freezing

24. Homogenization

25. Inert gas treatment (carbon dioxide, nitrogen packing)

26. Melting: defreezing

27. Peeling without a chemical agent

28. Pressing

29. Puffing

30. Ripening: maturing without chemical additive.

31. Separation including sieving, trimming, decantation

32. Soaking

33. Sprout removal

34. Thermal treatment: including baking, scalding, boiling, cooking, pasteurizing, sterilizing, roasting)

35. With respect to a meat, poultry, or fish product, a product is "Natural" only if these products were raised with minimal human intervention, for example, wild turkey or wild fish, and were not given any hormones or antibiotics.

 

Natural Ingredient: an ingredient that was produced of a food product that is “Natural” according to section (a) above, using the production methods used in section (a) and/or using extraction, reconstruction, or refining during the production process, so long as the ingredient has not chemically changed during the production process.