Healthy food that's really not
Sometimes you feel like eating an embarrassingly large slice of cheesecake with nary a thought about calories, fat grams or recommended daily value of vitamin C. It's cheesecake. If it tastes like heaven, its work here is done.
But when you sit down for a nutrition-minded meal, you don't want stealth ingredients sabotaging your good intentions. However, packages can be deceiving. (Heart healthy! Low fat! Full serving of vegetables!) Here, we look at seven foods that appear healthful but contain ingredients you may want to avoid.
--Heidi Stevens, Tribune Newspapers
But when you sit down for a nutrition-minded meal, you don't want stealth ingredients sabotaging your good intentions. However, packages can be deceiving. (Heart healthy! Low fat! Full serving of vegetables!) Here, we look at seven foods that appear healthful but contain ingredients you may want to avoid.
--Heidi Stevens, Tribune Newspapers
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Acai mixed berry juice
Why we bite: The label -- boasting a "full serving of vegetables," "full serving of fruits," the American Heart Association checkmark, plus the uber-trendy acai berry -- makes this bottle hard to resist.
Reality check: At 110 calories and 26 grams of sugar, an 8-ounce glass has almost as many calories as a serving of Oreo cookies and twice the sugar. The vitamin C content is 100 percent of your recommended daily value, but vitamins A and E are comparatively low at 15 and 10 percent. Try: A 100 percent vegetable juice, which contains 50 calories, 6 grams of sugar per serving, plus 100 percent of vitamins A, C and E. |
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