{"id":787,"date":"2009-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/weight-loss-simple-ingredients-trendy-but-not-necessarily-healthy\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T00:00:00","slug":"weight-loss-simple-ingredients-trendy-but-not-necessarily-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/weight-loss-simple-ingredients-trendy-but-not-necessarily-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":""Simple Ingredients May Be Trendy, but Not Necessarily Healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Julie Upton, RD<\/p>\n
There is a hot new marketing trend in the food industry: simplicity. A slew of products in grocery stores are boasting that they contain just a few simple, all-natural ingredients. Problem is, those "simple, all-natural" ingredients are generally things that provide little nutritional value for their number of calories—and they include sugar, cream, flour, salt, oils, and butter.<\/p>\n
I figure anytime a processed packaged food product markets the brand with squishy terms like simple, all-natural, naturally sourced, or wholesome, it’s necessary to look beyond the bold type on the package and go straight to the Nutrition Facts panel.<\/p>\n
After all, if the product was qualified to make any real Food and Drug Administration–approved nutrient claims (such as, it's rich in calcium, low in sugar, or high in fiber), then it would. Instead, many are using feel-good marketing terms that may make unsuspecting consumers think that the products might, well, be good for them.<\/p>\n
This is where simple turns complex. Many of these foods are calorie- and fat-rich, sugar-filled snack foods, desserts, or other treats that should only be eaten on occasion. Remember, the fact that a food is made from simple ingredients that you can recognize doesn’t mean much nutritionally. (We all recognize sugar, lard, and salt, but we don’t want them<\/em> to be the mainstays of our diet!)<\/p>\n And it's not like I have a personal vendetta against simple foods; most things I eat are whole foods with few artificial ingredients. But that doesn't mean that anything without chemicals or hard-to-pronounce additives makes my list.<\/p>\n Here are three of the best examples of “simple” marketing that reveal a more complex nutritional picture.<\/p>\n Häagen-Dazs Five<\/strong> cooking-basics-150.jpg<\/span> , “Even though a product may only have a few ingredients, that doesn’t mean it’s healthy. A five-ingredient ice cream may still be loaded with calories and artery-clogging saturated fat, so you have to read the labels for the whole story.”<\/p>\n
This new ice cream brags that it's "crafted with only five ingredients for incredibly pure, balanced flavor…and surprisingly less fat!” The ingredients for the ginger flavor include: skim milk (good), cream (not so good), sugar (eek!), and egg yolks (not great). A half-cup serving has 230 calories, 12 grams of fat, 7 grams of saturated fat (that's more than one-third of your daily limit), one-fourth of your daily cholesterol allotment, and 5 1\/2 teaspoons of sugar.<\/p>\n