10 Food Memories My Kids Won't Have

Photo by: Keith Weller, USDA

Wheat Germ

Wheat germ was a staple of "health food" fanatics of the '70s and '80s. Whatever its actual merits were, I think the idea eventually filtered down that adding wheat germ to foods made them healthy. I worked in a grocery store in college and remember a woman telling me she was buying wheat germ to add to General Tso's chicken from a Chinese place in the same strip mall. The wheat germ probably didn't hurt, ... more 

Photo by: Keith Weller, USDA

Wheat Germ

Wheat germ was a staple of "health food" fanatics of the '70s and '80s. Whatever its actual merits were, I think the idea eventually filtered down that adding wheat germ to foods made them healthy. I worked in a grocery store in college and remember a woman telling me she was buying wheat germ to add to General Tso's chicken from a Chinese place in the same strip mall. The wheat germ probably didn't hurt, but it was still deep fried chicken coated in a sauce with a ton of sugar. I don't think kids today will grow up with the illusion that wheat germ can magically make something healthy.

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