Simple Ingredients - Don't Be Fooled

Frito-Lay and Haagen-Dazs are steaming ahead, marketing three-ingredient potato chips and five-ingredient ice creams. Are these snacks any healthier without additives and preservatives or is this simply trendy Big Food foolery? DailySpark weighs in, and I couldn't agree more. Don't be fooled.

Potatoes sliced thin, fried in oil and tossed with salt are junk food. While I'm glad they're not also sprinkled with BHA or BHT -- one of nine Food Additives to Avoid, cited by Forbes -- they're still packed with fat. Frito-Lay's subtle tagline sends the message "Happiness is Simple," but the simplest source of a healthy diet lies in fresh fruits, vegetables and lean proteins, not a bag of chips.

Haagen Dazs' new Five ice cream touts only five ingredients -- milk, cream, sugar, eggs and one all-natural flavor. Swirl those together and a mere half cup has 220 calories and 12 grams of fat. Seven of those fat grams are icky saturated fats, too. I've been on a personal quest lately to ditch chemicals whenever possible and stick to wholesome foods. Nutritionists are rallying around this new definition of a healthy food, and former Diet Coke and fat-free-everything addict Jillian Michaels says in her new book, "Master Your Metabolism," that it'll save your biochemistry and keep you thin. But if I have to score a handful of chips or a bowl of ice cream, oxymoronic wholesome junk food is on the top of my list.