AIBU to say that honey, jam, Nutella are all unhealthy foods despite small amounts of benefit from the 'natural' ingredients

[Luftfahrt22]

I keep hearing people adding honey/jam/Nutella to their toast because it's 'healthy' and they believe it's making their high carb snack better as a result. I never know whether to say anything as I am no expert and if people believe it's healthy then maybe they feel better as a result.
Would you counter an argument or just smile, nod and say nothing?

Honey has antibacterial and nit inflammatory properties ( proper medical grade honey) I use it in my work as a nurse. I haven't seen the research around honey in diet but I have a little on my yogurt daily.

The rest are absolutely not healthy options but a little in moderation is everything.

I love all those foods. Especially honey.

Im under no illusion they are healthy though. Who are these people that think they are??

It's all sugar or sugar plus fats.

Adding to the majority.
You'd have to be pretty dim to think that any of them are healthy, surely?

I eat all of them, and don't care. But am under no illusion I'm eating the equivalent of kale or anything.

are they trying to say that it's "healthier" than say butter, because it has a lower FAT content?

I mean yeah, that might help reduce your risk of high cholesterol but adding carbs to your carbs is a sure fire way to increase your risk of type 2 diabetes 😂

Honey is clean - anti fungal, anti bacterial, usable on wounds (yeah I never have but apparently you can).

Nutella and jam are sugar 😋 with very moderate amounts of the benefits of fruit or nuts or chocolate in them. Keep them away from wounds.

Agree that I've never heard Nutella described as healthy.

I wouldn't consider jam healthy either; its 50% sugar. But compared with say a sugary breakfast cereal, a teaspoon of jam In porridge (half tsp fruit / half tsp sugar) isn't too terrible.

And I'd rather have a small amount of honey than anything with artificial sweeteners.

All of them spike your sugar levels
If you're diabetic or pre diabetic then you really shouldn't have them.

No one thinks Nutella is healthy!!!!!!

Only Nutella ever try to pretend that Nutella is healthy.

👏👏 this!

Yeah with their "one hazelnut per jar" or whatever it was

I’d agree with you on jam and Nutella but I always think honey is good for you. I buy the nice local stuff not the squeezy bottles from the supermarket. A teaspoon of honey really soothes a sore throat imo. Also my hay fever seems improved by a daily dose of honey.

No one thinks Nutella is 'healthy', surely?

But it won't do much damage in moderation.

I would probably mind my own business and leave each to their own. What does it matter to you what other people choose to eat?

Jam preserves (literally!) more than half the nutrients of its fruit content. Like honey, it's a good source of antioxidants. Honey also has anti-inflammatory qualities. Hazelnuts and cocoa have well known health benefits.

All of these foods are fairly intense in flavour so can be eaten in small quantities with bread ("supermarket" or otherwise) with some benefits. Moderation with any sweet food is advisable but that's compatible with spreading on toast.

There’s some good research about the health effects benefits of honey (the really good stuff, not the sugar syrup you get from the supermarket). But never heard anyone suggest Nutella is healthy? I wish it was!

LMAO have never heard these foods described as healthy. Eat them in moderation if you like them. Then get on with the day.

Barbara Cartland wrote a book about the health benefits of honey www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Honey-Barbara-Cartland/dp/0552103365

The benefit is energy, which is why they are recommended for spreading on your toast at breakfast time, because you then have all day to burn that energy off on your commute to work for example, or children will have burnt off the energy from Nutella by the end of morning break. These products are not advertised as a dinner item because then you wouldn't be able to sleep because of the energy you've just eaten.

Honey has some medicinal benefits. Nutella contains calcium and vitamin D I believe. I have never seen an advert claiming that jam is healthy.

Ah, but Nutella is part of the Mediterranean diet. Kids are brought up on it 😉

My favourite evil snack is soft seedy wholemeal bread, slathered in salty butter, topped of with Nutella. Bliss.

Don't know anyone who thinks anything on that list (other than honey) are healthy. But you are only eating a small amount so it's not particularly unhealthy (the bread it's spread on is probably more unhealthy).

Oh come on…will nobody think of the carbs and tannins?!

Never heard this either. Anyone saying that would clearly be delusional.

Honey is the least bad way to add some sweetness if it’s really needed, but that’s as far as it goes.

Eating too much of any type of food is what's unhealthy, not the food itself.

All things in moderation, as my mum was fond of saying.