Healthy Meals And Snacks From The Cool Aisles Of The Store
hey friends! after my unhealthy healthfoods or deceivingly unhealthy foods episode a lot of you requested that ido a part 2. so today i am drawing inspiration from that and i am sharing5 unhealthy healthy snack foods. so that is snacks that are marketed withclaims that they are healthy but i'm gonna show you today that they actuallyaren't much better for you than their conventional counterparts. pretty much iwent to the store, i sat down on the floor, and i read the labels for hours. first up: veggie chips. did you see myorganic foods rant video? oh look! these are free from 101 artificial preservatives and ingredientsand they look organic. first let's talk
about macros and compare these two agood old-fashioned bag of potato chips. so side-by-side you can see that themacros are pretty similar. so the first thing you want to do when you compare 2labels is make sure that the serving size is the same and when you look atthat here you see it's 1 ounce and 28 grams for both so greatthis is easy. there is only a 30 calorie and 3 grams of fat difference betweenthe two which isn't really that much and the carbohydrates are exactly the sameand when most people think about what scares them with these unhealthy snack foods likechips what do they think? carbs, yes. now we must remember carbs are not the enemyand neither of these choices are bad
because of the carbs. carbs are fantasticfuel and so are potatoes but both of these have so much added fat that theyaren't really offering any fuel and it's not healthy fat. so the main reasonthat these and most of the other items you're gonna look at today aren'thealthy is because they aren't fuel. so once you look at the nutrition labelyou're gonna wanna move down to the ingredients list and i always say that ashorter ingredients list is better. but wait! the original lays have less ingredients!so yes, the lays only require potatoes, oil, and salt. that's a pretty short listand remember that these labels are required to put those ingredients inorder of most used to least used in the
product. so there's obviously mostlypotatoes followed by oil and salt. the veggie chips however have a longer list.probably because of all the vegetables the first ingredient is potatoes. where are the veggies? oh wait, there they are at the bottom. there is tomato puree, spinach powder, and beet powder for color.so this means there isn't really any vegetables in these. if there were there would bea little bit of fiber. which we can see comparing the 2 there's not. there'sthe exact same amount 1 gram of fiber in both. these chips are dyed these colors to make methink they're nutritious! how rude! so as you can see these are pretty much fried potatoes. that's what chipsare and even a lot of the baked brands have just as much oil and fat as thehealthier healthier veggie chips or the
classic potato chips and they're goingto try and get you with the claims. they're gluten-free, no preservatives, reduced fat.but remember these claims don't make an item healthy. they don't make it fuel. theyjust make them less bad. the unfortunate truth in there isn't really a healthychip that is providing fuel on the market. i guess quest chips might kind of count. now options like these oh so delicious snappea crisps might be considered a little bit better. they do have a little bitless fat and a little bit more fiber the base is a true vegetable but it's still avegetable that is baked in a ton of oil. with that much added fat it canhardly count as a vegetable.
next up, fruit snacks. oh so these arejust like fruits but in gummy form. not quite in reality these aren't muchbetter for you than the traditional gummy bear. now if you watched my healthycandy choices from halloween then you'll know that gummy candies have their ownnutritional drawbacks. alright so comparing the macros of these the firstthing we have to recognize is the serving size is not the same 23 gramsfor the gummies and 39 grams for the gummy bears. so let's take a look at what happens tothe macros when we change the 39 grams of gummy bears to equate to the 23 grams.cross multiply, divide, channel your 7th grade math teacher, and whoa they're the same. yup, the macros are almost identical. please
note that even though these are fruitythere is no fiber noted even in the label at all. how about the ingredients? isthere actually any fruit? the lists are about the same length, the organic mightactually have a little bit of a longer list. both of the fruit snacks contains somefruit juice from concentrate but we know if you watch my concentrates video thatconcentrate isn't really good for us either. it's not fuel. now the firstingredient in all of these is corn syrup the organic is tapioca syrup but thatis pretty much a replacement for corn syrup. now tapioca is made from cassava or yucca. it's a woody shrub or root usually grown in south america. it is still pure sugar it is just asdense in calories, it just doesn't sound
as scary. admittedly the gummy bears douse artificial colorings to get those unnatural colors and both of the fruitsnacks use natural color. so i guess that's a thumbs up. still these do not qualify asfuel and are by no means a fruit substitute. moving on! sandwich cookies. well that's funny these look just like oreos. that is funny cuz that's what we're comparing them to. alright so looking atthe macros comparing the serving size we have 27 grams compared to 34grams only a seven gram difference between the two. but note for 3 oreo cookiesyou only get 2 newman's cookies. for the sake of consistency let's do that mathagain and compare these same amount for both 27 grams and we find that they arethe exact same, pretty much. a little bit
less fat in the oreos even. wowza! so let'slook at the the ingredients list. they're both about the same length. the firstingredient for the oreos is unbleached enriched flour. so we know that isrefined and offers essentially no fuel. but take a look at the first ingredienton the healthy oreos organic powdered sugar. at least it's organic.essentially these are both refined sugar and refined flour cookies. they aren't fuel and some people will say 'well i'd rather get the organic snacks because i know the ingredients are better and there is less sugar" but as you can see that is not the case. the first ingredient in these is sugarand they are cookies. they should really be an occasional treat not a daily oneand if we are consuming these regularly we
aren't doing our bodies or our kidsbodies any good. i'm not saying to not buy them do whatever you want i'm justsaying we have to be honest about what these are and these are not any healthier than thereg. we now have yogurt covered anything. at whole foods i picked out these yogurtcovered goji berries because man do they seem healthy! what even is a goji berry? itlooks disgusting so it must be good for me. yogurt-covered items might as well bechocolate covered items. the coating is just sugar and oil and maybe you'll findsome milk or yogurt somewhere down there on the ingredient list and again there'sthat healthy tapioca. we could of course
just compare these yogurt covered goji berries to yogurtcovered raisins but we're gonna take it a step further and compare it to thechocolate covered raisins cuz i want to show you they're literally the same. soagain let's make sure we're looking at the same serving size, which we are not.so we're gonna adjust the raisinets to match the goji berries and we find... you gotta be kidding me! nope the raisinets are the same infact they have a few less calories and theingredients list is just as long. truth is a raisin isn't bad eitheruntil you cover it in sugar and oil. these gojis are literally the same thing.these are candy. the dark chocolate ones too. in my moderation rant video i briefly touch ondark chocolate and a lot of people
seemed confused about whether or not itis healthy. so if you are interested in me doing a dark chocolate video pleasecomment below and let me know. last but certainly not least, a salty corn puff. i hate to break itto you but these salty goods are essentially cheetos in disguise. macros both are28 grams per serving only 20 calorie difference. now admittedly the piratesbooty does have half the fat which is awesome but it also has about 30 percentmore carbs and no they're not the fuel kind. you win some you lose some.ingredients wise the first ingredient in both is cornmeal. it is worthy to notethat the cheetos use enriched cornmeal. so that pretty much means that thenutrients have been stripped and then
added back in. it pretty much means theyare more processed or that the corn meal is more processed but that doesn't makethe pirates booty a clean choice either. it does use slightly less ingredientsand oil which is good don't get me wrong but it's a treat, it's not fuel. i know i'm sad too.those of you who wonder what we do with these foods that we share in theseeducational videos that we don't use we return them. i said the ones wedon't use. but seriously guys this video is not here to campaign against theseitems. i love processed foods it's a problem. they are a huge weakness of mine. i liketo indulge in them here and there. i actually can't even buy them in my housebecause i have no control but the fact
is as delicious as they are they're notfuel, they are not whole foods and because of that they should not be a part of our regulardaily diet and remember we crave what we eat. so if we eat these a lot or if our kidseat these a lot then we're going to crave them more. so if we do choose to indulge in theseon occasion or let or kids indulge in these on occasion we just need to be honestwith ourselves and our kids about the fact that these are not healthy for ourbodies. it doesn't matter if they're lower in calories, fat, and carbs or not. they're not fuel. now if i'm really craving a processed food oneoption that helps me is buying these single-serve packets. i get it. i enjoy itat that moment and then i move on from
it. i don't keep a bunch of it in the houseto temp me. so i hope you guys found this video insightful and moderatelyinteresting. please give it a thumbs up if you want more videos like this and ifyou wouldn't mind sharing it was someone else so that they can learn about thistoo that would be amazing. i hope you guys have a fantastic week and rememberespecially when choosing healthy junk foods it's all a matter of mind over munch.
