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Milk! All about the different options

Milk is a unique and interesting food. Nutritionists often disagree about whether or not humans should drink milk. Here are two facts about milk, to give you the main argument against and for, so that you can decide if it should be on your own menu: 1. Argument against: Strictly speaking, milk is for babies! [...]

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Actimel vs Natural (Live) Yoghurt

Another Danone product: The ingredients in Actimel Original are: Yogurt (Skimmed milk, Skimmed milk concentrate, Yogurt cultures), Water, Skimmed milk, Dextrose, Stabiliser (pectin), L.casei imunitass® cultures, Flavouring, Sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame K). The ingredients in Forest Fruits Actimel are: Yogurt (Skimmed milk, cream, skimmed milk powder, yogurt cultures), Skimmed milk, Liquid sugar (sucrose 8.4%), Fruits of [...]

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Activia vs Natural (Live) Yoghurt

The ingredients in Activia ‘natural’ yoghurt are low fat yoghurt with Bifidus ActiRegularis (Registered Trademark) (skimmed milk, skimmed milk powder, cream, milk proteins, yoghurt cultures). The ingredients in the fat free range of Activia (taking the top entry on the web site – blueberry – as an example) are: fat free yoghurt with Bifidus ActiRegularis [...]

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Lighter Life Ingredients – the sequel

I went to the Wales National Obesity Forum conference yesterday and there were promotion stands around the hall – Lighter Life were there, Rosemary Conley was there, drug companies were there. But at least Coca Cola weren’t! (However the Chief Medical Officer for Wales couldn’t get a drink of water – the fridge was full [...]

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Lunch boxes with as much sugar as 10 doughnuts

This was widely reported in the UK Media on 16 November: A “Which” Consumer survey found that a child’s lunchbox could contain as much sugar as 10 doughnuts. A packed lunch with 5 items including cheese, biscuits and fruit juice, contained 60g of sugar. This equates to 12 teaspoons making the lunch as sugary as [...]

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Pringles vs Kettle Chips

The ingredients in Pringles “Salt & Vinegar” are: Dehydrated potatoes, vegetable oil,  corn flour;  salt and vinegar flavour (barely malt vinegar flavouring, lactose, acidity regulators, sodium diacetate, tridsodium citrate, malic acid), wheat starch, maltodextrin; emulsifier: E471, salt, rice flour, dextrose. The ingredients in unsalted Kettle Chips are: potatoes and sunflower oil. If you’re going to [...]

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Pasta Sauces slammed for salt intake

Consensus Action on Salt & Health (CASH) have done a survey on the salt content in pasta sauces and found, horror of horrors, that Jamie Oliver’s spicy olive garlic and tomato pasta sauce has 3g of salt per 100g of product. When are we going to have a CASH 2 – Consensus Action on SUGAR [...]

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Lighter Life Ingredients

Had a very interesting exchange with a club member on Lighter Life! Thought you may be interested… Member:  I was wondering whether you would have time to answer a question for me…  Upon looking at the ingredients (in Lighter Life),  I wondered if there might be stuff in them that don’t try and cure my [...]

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Tomatoes are a dieter’s dream

There was a quite ridiculous story in the UK press. The article starts off talking about tomatoes being a possible wonderfood – supposedly leaving us satisfied and suppressing “one of the slimmer’s biggest pitfalls – the urge to snack.” You know you are in for a daft story when the article says that the findings [...]

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Benecol vs Butter

The ingredients in Benecol Olive spread are: Water, Rapeseed oil, Olive oil, Plant stanol ester (plant stanol 7%), Vegetable oil, Buttermilk powder, Salt (0.9%), Emulsifiers (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, soya lecithins), Preservative (potassium sorbate), Acidity regulator (citric acid), Flavorings, Vitamin A, Color (carotenes), Vitamin D. The ingredients in butter are: butter. Which one [...]

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