Off The Shelf Low Carbs: A Rip Off? Part One
Greetings,
This is the summary of the report I promised yesterday. It's a bit long, so I may have to break it into several parts (interrupted by links to delicious low fat recipes)....
Many dietary regimes offer their own special type of food from supermarkets' shelves. Weight Watchers, for instance, has several products that include their points system, which makes it to track how many points you consume on a day.
Low carb diet followers can also get their own special types of food off the shelf. With clear and promotional labels showing the amount of carbs per portion a product has, dieters are able to make "informed decisions" when buying their grosseries at the shops.
But, are we really getting good low carb value for our money? Choice Magazine conducted an investigation with astonishing results.
They checked products marked "Carb Smart", "Carb Options", "Carboright" and the "Atkins" brand in Australia. Their respective carbs labels gave the impression that these products were suitable for low carb diets.
The testing team compared these products with other "normal carb" products also found in the supermarkets' shelves.
The result of such tests was that:
If the difference in carbs content per serve is "minimal", then you may conclude that you pay a premium cost just for the easier labelling system, which tells you - at a glance - the amount of carbs a food or product has.
In my view, that's a bit too much of a rip off, since you can also find the amount of carbs in nutritional values table of the products... at least, here in Australia that is the case.
But the report goes on to explain that the so-called low carb products are not always necessarely suitable for a low carb diet (!!).
Yup! You read that one right!
But I'll tell you about that in one of my next postings...
Yours in health,
Jeff "The Skinny Chef"
For lots of delicious low fat recipes, weight loss and healthy eating tips and articles, visit www.Delicious-Low-Fat-Recipes.Com (They're so delicious... you won't believe they're good for you!).
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Get an Ebook with 120 Energy-Boosting and Delicious Low-Fat Fruit Smoothie Recipes for a small Donation to the Skinny Chef.
This is the summary of the report I promised yesterday. It's a bit long, so I may have to break it into several parts (interrupted by links to delicious low fat recipes)....
Many dietary regimes offer their own special type of food from supermarkets' shelves. Weight Watchers, for instance, has several products that include their points system, which makes it to track how many points you consume on a day.
Low carb diet followers can also get their own special types of food off the shelf. With clear and promotional labels showing the amount of carbs per portion a product has, dieters are able to make "informed decisions" when buying their grosseries at the shops.
But, are we really getting good low carb value for our money? Choice Magazine conducted an investigation with astonishing results.
They checked products marked "Carb Smart", "Carb Options", "Carboright" and the "Atkins" brand in Australia. Their respective carbs labels gave the impression that these products were suitable for low carb diets.
The testing team compared these products with other "normal carb" products also found in the supermarkets' shelves.
The result of such tests was that:
The low-carb brands all have less carbohyrdate per serve thanthe conventional versions, but not necessarely so much as to make a significant difference to your overall diet. For instance, unless you like it better, there's no point in paying extra for ATKINS Quick Cuisine Creamy Ranch Dressing with 0.7 g of carbs per serve when a serve of PAUL NEWMAN's OWN Ranch Dressing gives you only about half a gram more carbs. And much the same applies to EMPOWER LOW CARB Chocolate, which has only marginally fewer carbs than the same amount of CADBURY Dairy Milk Chocolate, but packs in more kilojoules.
If the difference in carbs content per serve is "minimal", then you may conclude that you pay a premium cost just for the easier labelling system, which tells you - at a glance - the amount of carbs a food or product has.
In my view, that's a bit too much of a rip off, since you can also find the amount of carbs in nutritional values table of the products... at least, here in Australia that is the case.
But the report goes on to explain that the so-called low carb products are not always necessarely suitable for a low carb diet (!!).
Yup! You read that one right!
But I'll tell you about that in one of my next postings...
Yours in health,
Jeff "The Skinny Chef"
For lots of delicious low fat recipes, weight loss and healthy eating tips and articles, visit www.Delicious-Low-Fat-Recipes.Com (They're so delicious... you won't believe they're good for you!).
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Get an Ebook with 120 Energy-Boosting and Delicious Low-Fat Fruit Smoothie Recipes for a small Donation to the Skinny Chef.
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