Don’t be fooled by Advertising& Check the Ingredients Before you Buy Clean Food

Don’t be fooled by ‘Healthy’ packaging, make sure you are checking the ingredients before you assume something is good for you. Something like this snack actually has 5 types of sugar in it. Not so ‘healthy’ now is it!

It contained the following sugars:

*Organic Cane Sugar

*Brown Rice Syrup

What it is: Sugar extracted from starches in cooked rice.

Research says: Though brown rice syrup breaks down pri­marily into glucose, it’s a more complex carbohydrate than pure glucose (which some products use), so you’ll get less of a blood-sugar spike. It’s better than a pure fructose sweetener but not as preferable as sucrose-based ones.

*Tapioca Syrup

What it is: An extract from the starches in cassava root.

Research says: There haven’t been many studies on tapioca syrup, but it’s heavily processed and manufacturers manipulate its glucose and fructose ratios. Until there’s more information,

we’d be better to steer clear

*Vegetable Glycerin, aka Glycerol or Glycerine

What is it: is a clear liquid typically made from soybean, coconut or palm oils. It is odorless and has a mild, sweet taste with a syrup-like consistency. Vegetable glycerin is particularly popular in the cosmetic industry but has several other uses as well.

*Prebiotic Fiber ?

What is it: is a non-digestible part of foods like bananas, onions and garlic, Jerusalem artichoke, the skin of apples, chicory root, beans, and many others. Prebiotic fiber goes through the small intestine undigested and is fermented when it reaches the large intestines.