Things disguised as healthy...

[marshmallowmamma]

A light hearted post but what are some things that are portrayed as healthy but aren't really ? My list is as follows...

Flavoured water
Most yoghurts
Yoghurt coated raisins
Most cereals
Fruit juices

Obviously we need to live a little but give us some that yiu think are purely just marketed to reel us in

That's a sensible smoothie and not more food than he could reasonably ingest in one go in its whole form.

At 13, teenagers often want to skip breakfast and eat not very nutritious foods later on, so that combo to start the day is sensible especially when compared to what teenagers would be attacted to instead.

(I'm in the everything in moderation camp anyway)

The way some people are going on, you'd think fruit was the devil's work, sent to tempt us.

Well that is basically the book of Genesis and the basis of the world's major religions. Or was that what you were getting at and I'm just explaining your joke? Sorry, I often miss tone completely but it's especially difficult in this format.

I have a smoothie every day with half an avocado, a banana, spinach, mango and ginger. Sometimes banana, strawberries and natural yogurt. All of those things are healthy. I am slim and healthy.
I really don't think smoothies are a problem. Overeating is and eating too much prosessed food.

You can get flavoured fizzy water with no artificial sweeteners (i include stevia in that)
Brands such as Dash, Aqualibra, Ugly are all zero calories as are pellegrino essenza, radnor infusions.

Oh for Christ's sake, a smoothie, even with nut butters and bananas isn't really going to be more than 300-400 calories. That's perfectly OK for breakfast.

Ultra processed food is designed to be addictive, and is poor nutritionally.

Rule of thumb is that if you read the ingredients and it sounds more like a lab than a pantry, then it probably isn't super fit for human digestion.

I try and limit ultra-processed food, but will happily plough through a tray of home made brownies etc. I don't focus on calories at all, just nutrition, with special regard to gut health.

Uhm. I said it without thinking of the Garden of Eden allusion to be honest.

But the point still stands

Though I doubt the sugar content of the apple was the main lesson to he taken from the story

Rice cakes.

Pure carbs tasting of cardboard. Why not have a slide of fresh bread and butter instead.

My teen DD rarely has fruit or vegetables despite me having encouraged/pleaded/disguised/offered them for the last 15 years!! She's discovered she likes smoothies, especially a green innocent one. Even if it hasn't much sugar as a Mars bar, I'm hoping she might (along with the sugar) be getting some vitamins/nutrients from the fruit/veg that she might not otherwise get.
I wasted about 8 years of my life obsessing over calories and fat when I had an ED as a teen/early 20s so I try not to demonise any type of food, although I'm keen to try to eat foods that are less processed (butter, full fat Greek yoghurt, bakery bread etc) rather than the low fat or low calories equivalents.

*has as much sugar as a Mars bar (that should say )

Though I doubt the sugar content of the apple was the main lesson to he taken from the story

Not directly, no. But the sweetness of forbidden fruit as an allegory has stood the test of time.

@glamosaurus
Please explain what part is so unhealthy that it deserves that description:

"Mycoprotein, Yeast Extract, Egg White. Contains 2% or less of Pea Fiber, Calcium Chloride, Calcium Acetate, Onion, Sage, Sugar."

I'm also waiting on an explanation of why muesli is unhealthy.

Muesli is hugely variable in ingredients. Choose a good whole grain one with plenty of nuts and seeds, maybe a little bit of dried fruit, and it's a perfectly good start to the day. Buy one that's loaded with added sugar and it's not.

Though I doubt the sugar content of the apple was the main lesson to he taken from the story

No mention of apples in Genesis. Who's to know whether the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good or evil was sweet?

smoothie every day with half an avocado, a banana, spinach, mango and ginger

I am struggling to imagine how that tastes! Does the addition of ginger mask what to me would be a grim marriage of spinach and banana?!

Ok, point taken.

But was the the allegory about the sugar content of fruit, or being tempted to do something you've been told not to (for no discernible reason)?

I'm not a theologian so 🤷‍♀️

But was the the allegory about the sugar content of fruit, or being tempted to do something you've been told not to (for no discernible reason)?

Well there is a discernible reason... and it's deeply misogynistic.

Yeah, you need to watch the ratios. I put a couple.of.dessert spoons in and that's when making smoothies for whole family. Wouldn't add more than a tablespoon for him. Soaked.overnight even better.

Who's to know whether the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good or evil was sweet?

Fairly sure that whatever the point of the story is, it isn't that women break rules to get at precious, delicious lemons. Mind you, I'm not a theologian either. And I can't even find the shrug emoticon.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoprotein

Its the type protein in Quorn that makes it controversial - sounds really unappetising grown in glucose syrup with added ammonia. It causes stomach issues in some people, think it’s banned in Canada.

@Dixiechickonhols

And mushrooms are grown in manure and wood chips - quite unappetizing.

It's approved by Health Canada, but not by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency because the CFIA requires substitute foods to be fortified with certain nutrients to be approved.

Oh for Christ's sake, a smoothie, even with nut butters and bananas isn't really going to be more than 300-400 calories. That's perfectly OK for breakfast. it’s the sugar content , a bananas avocado and mangos smoothie is around 30g sugars, per serving, as supposed to half an avocado on sourdough toast which is between 3-4g sugars . with half a cup of berries it’s no more than 8g sugars in total , a much more filling meal.

bananas, mangos, avocados, yogurt , nut butters, are all good and very healthy , and you can eat them all in one day provided they are spaced out through out the day, it’s really just how and the quantity that we consume in one portion that is the culprit .

opposed not supposed. 🤦🏼‍♀️