Simple Ingredients - Don't Be Fooled
Categories: Nutrition & Supplements
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.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
fooducate 4-27-2009 @ 6:06PM
It's all marketing BS. Take Haagen Dazs's New French Vanilla flavor for example. It actually has 6 ingredients, not 5. So did the old formulation.
New formula: SKIM MILK, CREAM, SUGAR, EGG YOLKS, VANILLA (VANILLA BEAN FLAKES, VANILLA EXTRACT).
Classic formula: CREAM, SKIM MILK, SUGAR, EGG YOLKS, NATURAL FLAVOR, GROUND VANILLA BEANS.
More on this product here:
http://www.fooducate.com/blog/2009/03/09/what-haagen-says-what-haagen-dazs/
Nonetheless, it's a darn tasty treat...
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Anne 4-27-2009 @ 11:00PM
Looked at the feeling of a little junk food.
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Deb 4-29-2009 @ 9:19AM
Wow, that is very deceptive. Also, I feel a lot better cutting back on saturated fats. I see a new trend also where foods are saying no trans fatty acids and yet still have a lot of bad fats and ingredients in it.
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