A topping on desserts that could be dangerous…
One of my favorite desserts growing up was ice cream sundaes. I loved going to birthday parties and gorging myself on sundaes and whipped cream frosted cake (I loved that stuff, not the real frosting the whipped cream one). The best part of the sundaes, of course, was the whipped cream or rather the Cool Whip.
Cool Whip is amazing, how this beautifully textured whip could come out of a package with so little calories. BUT little did I know that it was packed full of nasty ingredients. From Kraft’s Website:
WATER, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (COCONUT AND PALM KERNEL OILS), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORN SYRUP, SKIM MILK, LIGHT CREAM, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SODIUM CASEINATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, XANTHAN AND GUAR GUMS, POLYSORBATE 60, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR). CONTAINS: MILK
From that let’s list the “good, whole” items from the list:
So we have a product with 12+ (don’t forget the “natural and artificial flavors”) 3 of which could be considered somewhat “good” for you. That means that 75% of the ingredients are no good for you or we don’t know what they are! Here’s some of the ingredients defined:
- HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL -is a trans-fat, which causes heart disease, there could be a chance that if it is processed correctly it doesn’t become a trans-fat, you have to just trust them to do it right. I don’t think so!
- HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP – “corn sugar” with a synthetic enzyme, no thanks!
- SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE – Used in some hemorrhoid creams, it’s like a synthetic wax. Who would want to eat hemorrhoid cream?
Is it worth it? Do we really need to save the extra calories by introducing all these nasty unknown substances into our bodies? We could just eat the real stuff which is just air + cream. Sometimes losing weight by accident requires us to go back to our origins and learn the way we worked before everything was just so “convenient”.
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