1. Sugarless Chocolate
When you see a product, such as
your favorite chocolate bar, proudly labeled ‘sugar free’, you’ll want
to have a good look at the nutritional information on the packet. If a
company has removed sugar from the recipe, how have they maintained
their popular flavor? They do so by adding fat and upping the carb and
calorie content. So, there is no benefit to be gained whatsoever.
2. 'Brown' Bread
Did
you know that real brown bread should crumble under pressure, when you
hold it? If the bread you have doesn’t do this it probably is white
bread, dressed up to look like brown bread. Shocking and unlikely as it
may sound, it is true. As Sheryl says, ‘some manufacturers add caramel
color to the dough to give it its brown color.’ They also add 3-parts
refined flour to 1-part wheat flour, when wheat flour is what they
should be using as the main ingredient.
In the future, check the
ingredients label to see if wheat flour is the main ingredient.
3. Multigrain & High-Fiber Cookies
Often,
when some of us feel a touch of inopportune hunger kicking us in our
bellies and we don’t have time to prepare a meal, we grab a pack of
cookies and munch many of them. Since we’ve read they are ‘multigrain’
and ‘high fiber’, we believe we’ve done nothing but good to our health.
Well, we are wrong, again.
Food manufacturers actually
increase the levels of sugars and fats in these cookies to bolster their
one-sided health claims, while making the biscuits tasty enough for us
to devour them gladly in a few wild minutes.
4. Fat-Free Cereals
Cereals
have been gaining in popularity ever since WWII, so that now it’s
commonplace for many of us to have grown up eating them daily. But,
unfortunately, cereal makers are some of the absolute worst perpetrators
of food fraud.
Although there are many genuine
cereals on the market today, most of the well-known versions are coated
in far too much sugar, sodium and other additives that are used to
offset the unappealing taste of the fat-free or low-fat cereals that
would otherwise be produced by their factories.
5. Light Butter
Until
quite recently people were convinced of the utter superiority,
health-wise, of margarine over butter. Yet the truth is that, whatever
the pros and cons of butter, margarine is by no means free of fat,
though it may not contain cholesterol. Margarine contains saturated fat,
trans fat and plenty of salt, which are not good for the heart.
6. Energy Bars
We
should always check the nutritional information, and make sure a bar
has less than 200 calories, less than 5 g fat, 5 g or more fiber, and 15
g or more protein.
The main problem is that the majority of these
bars do contain an awful lot of sugar, like many famous brands which don't claim at least to be energy bars !
7. 'Diet' Food
They just allow us to suppose that they
are, by relying on their claims to be low fat or fat free. As ever, fat
is not the only, or even the main, problem with these snacks when
eaten in excess. Yet the problem could be even worse, because by making
‘low fat’ snacks, some food companies may even be adding ‘partially
hydrogenated vegetable oil’, which contains harmful trans fats and also most are high in salt, which is bad for the heart and also for kidney patients.
8. Flavored Yogurts
The
problem with flavored yogurts is that the added ‘fruit’ comes largely
from concentrate, which means high levels of sugar. A 150 g portion of
Greek yogurt should give you 80 calories and no added sugar, whereas an
average flavored yogurt offers 130 calories and 20 g of sugar.
There is nothing healthy about these flavored yogurts, only rich in calories. Greek yogurt has fewer calories and we can add the fresh fruit of our choice to enjoy the same healthier version !
9. Ready-Meals
Ready
meals aim to take the hassle and the time out of cooking and part of cleaning too. But on the other hand,your health will be
paying quite a high price for this too-good-to-be-true deal.
Food producers are able to make
these ready meals by adding extra fats and salt to the mix. These help
prolong their shelf-life, allowing companies to reach their sales
targets with minimum wastage. Always check the labels for the
sodium/salt content. Most of us take in 3,400mg of sodium per day, yet
we should only be consuming 1,500.
10. Cholesterol-Free Oils
Not many are aware that all vegetable oils are cholesterol free ! So, what is mentioned in the package that the particular brand of oil is cholesterol free is only a marketing gimmick ! The ‘heart friendly oil should be
cholesterol- and trans-fat free, low in saturated fats and high in
monounsaturated fat (MUFA) and polyunsaturated fat (PUFA), it should
have an ideal omega-6 to omega-3 acids ratio and a high smoking point’.
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