You know your front-of-package program is a joke when potato chips qualify.
Now don't get me wrong, I too occasionally enjoy them, but at 847mg of sodium with 210 calories and nothing good nutritionally a bag, baked Old Dutch chips are certainly fairly classifiable at best as "sometimes food", but not, "Wise" and certainly not (reading the ad copy actually made me laugh out loud) the,
"perfect complement to an active lifestyle"Weird unexpected finding?
When peeking at the difference between the nutritional information of baked vs. regular Old Dutch chips I found that the baked chips have a teaspoon of sugar per bag (vs. none in the original) and 23% more sodium.
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I love the old "take out x undesireable ingredient and replace with 2 other undesireable ones" routine.....
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ReplyDeleteI guess that's funny, but much front of labeling is downright sad and pathetic ... especially when it comes to trans fats. I try to educate people at my site: www.PartiallyHydrogenated.com.
The battle we are waging on the front lines is getting harder every day.
Kindest regards,
Ken Leebow
I've gotten to the point where I just automatically assume a product is not good for me if the package has any sort of health claim, health check logo, or any similiar sort of front of package labelling.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping that people are starting to make healthier choices in what they eat and so this increased frenzy in b.s. front of package labelling is the knee-jerk reaction by Big Food to dropping sales of packaged foods.
Jill
I think my strategy is going to include more foods that don't have nutritional labels, and don't need them. Things like fruit and veggies.
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