to be irked by this protein nonsense

[headinhands]

I keep seeing various food packaging with protein written across the front in big letters.

Its like they're making out this protein thing is a new invention and some people appear to be fooled into thinking protein rich food was hitherto unavailable.

Maybe I'm just a grumpy old woman....

Assuming it's just the latest fad.

Why the teachers? My year 2 son did food groups this year and has been taught a basic understanding of why they’re needed and why you don’t OD on any of the food groups. It just backed up things we had discussed at home during meal times.

Protein shakes are total bollocks as well.

I get the same feeling when I hear people complaining about "carbs". As if rice, potatoes, pasta and bread are some sort of aberrant quirk, rather than what has kept most people alive since agriculture was invented.

It makes me think of this:

I'm glad that people are becoming aware of what to look out for to ensure something is actually healthy (protein content, healthy fat levels, sugar etc) but as usual the marketing has just messed everything up and the government have just made sure that we consume chemicals rather than food which actual health benefits.

People who don't eat carbs make me laugh, because whole grains and vegetables are the devil yet somehow steak, cheese and a snickers is no problem because someone threw a "high protein" label on it

It is just marketing. People sitting around thinking 'how can we make this egg/milk/sausage etc look exciting?'

If you'd buy it anyway fine. It bothers me that people are being swayed so easily by what the marketing people write across the front. As ever it was I guess.

With, not which.

I find it frustrating because a lot of foods marketed as ‘high in protein’ are not that high in protein or contain so much carbohydrate or fat that it negates the high protein. (I’m looking at you cheddar cheese from Asda!) Thankfully I’d never just look at the front of a packet and assume that the marketing was helpful or informative but I know plenty of people would.

You might teach healthy eating at school but it's not how we were taught Mrs cook (My cookery teacher) believed in everything in moderation and a sensible eating pattern to be fair her attitude has done me well now what my sons school teaches him is a whole list of nopes and no nos and no practical cookery

what my sons school teaches him is a whole list of nopes and no nos and no practical cookery 

But surely the concept of moderation and basic cookery is some that that can also be taught by parents considering that parents are just as responsibly for their children's education and life skills as teachers are

Have you noticed gluten-free shampoo? :(

YANBU!

I've also noticed this recently, really bloody annoying. Due to the current fad for high-protein diets. Which will pass like all the others.

as a diabetic type 2 i have had to really revise my diet big time, lost loads of weight and am a lot healthier as a result, but still check out 'new' things though before i buy.
so protein is the new thing, wasn't so long ago that 'low fat' was in, but...compare like for like with the regular 'full fat' and things are often not much lower in fat but have higher sugar instead.
this is flipping the bird at an ex friend who lives on low fat stuff and martyrs herself as a result although she moans about the lack of favour . it's like things that have 'healthy' blazoned on them -read the ingredients it can be a real eye opener !

juells really ?? i know some of them smell good enough to drink but..

Have you noticed gluten-free shampoo? :(

Arghshdidkenrkrknfnfrk.

With full attendance, kids have 195 lunches a year at school many of which are actually packed lunches made by parents. Kids then have a further 2 meals a day at home (3 In the hols) plus snacks.

This is 900 meals plus snacks. Yet teachers are to blame? How?

it's all too easy to blame teachers, the weather or brexit for lack of parenting,

I hope by teachers she meant cookery lessons in school, not actual teachers.

I was pretty annoyed when my ds had to make a cake with sweetener instead of sugar and then find low fat butter for the cake. We teach moderation at home, the school was teaching eat more but substitute for less calorific ingredients. By the teachers fault, definitely the government and their ridiculous guidelines.

The thing is, the food industry mostly processes and packages food. Apart from supermarkets, there's no money to be made from unprocessed normal fresh food- fruit, veg, meat, fish, milk, porridge because its mostly not branded. Diet advice to eat more of these generic foods and less processed food is a disaster for big food corps. So they constantly jump on bandwagons branding stuff that does not need it or trying to make crappy foods look healthy. Best to ignore all food advertisements as they invariably promote something fake and processed.

@newtlover

yup
I blame the teachers
or rather, the department of education who stopped kids learninng basic nutrition and cooking

^I blame the parents who should be teaching their child about food and nutrition.

The body only takes in the protein it needs; all the rest is lost in urine, so basically most of your expensive protein shake is pissed away.

Thanks esk1mo

A con. Write PROTEIN in big letters on the packaging and charge extra.

gah!
irony, people! (you are English, right? )
am well aware that teachers do not have a free hand in what happens at school- but you have to wonder why all the recently-educated-in Engish-schools adults are falling for this nonsense, if schools did such a good job teaching them common sense nutrition and healthy cooking
I speak as someone whose kids did food tech in the early 2010s.