Healthy or junk food? Busting food labels (CBC Marketplace)

Food Fiction | Originally broadcast Feburary 13, 2015
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  1. Explain to me what false claims Nutella is making? Everything you need to know as a consumer is on the label. Good luck to that Mom trying to feed her kid grape nuts or all bran in skim milk. Give the kid a well-balanced menu including fresh veggies and fruit and simple solid muscle proteins with no soda pop and Nutella on whole grain toast three mornings a week is not going to adversely affect his growth and development. Geez

  2. It's quite simple, don't eat processed food and if you have to then learn to read labels, if your to busy to do that then you're screwed, you can blame everyone else for your bad diet but I don't care to listen to your excuses.

  3. It's super easy to say "Well people should know that x isn't healthy" but when someone is working a full time job and trying to feed their family they shouldn't have to sit down and examine every ingredient and do calculations for every nutrition label. Food manufacturers, in the US and Canada, need to be held to higher standards for what labels they can use for what nutritional contents

  4. People are so delusional for thinking processed foods are good for you. Any health conscious person should be cooking their food from scratch and stop looking for shortcuts

  5. Reporter: “In a serving of Nutella, which is a tablespoon, there are 11 grams of sugar.”

    Mom: “Wow.”

    Reporter: “Do you know how much that is?”

    Mom: “No.”

    Then why the hell did you say wow?! Lol!

    I absolutely love Nutella! I don’t care what it has in it, I’m going to keep eating it. But I always considered it dessert.

    The first time I encountered someone eating it for breakfast was at my son’s girlfriend’s house. We lived in different cities, and we were in their town visiting, so they invited our family to breakfast at their house. Her mom put a big jar of Nutella on the table with the rest of the food. I was really surprised, but I didn’t care. As I’m a terribly sarcastic person, I made a joke about having dessert for breakfast, and she told me that Nutella is healthy, and they have it every morning. I thought “lady, you don’t know what’s in your food.” She offered me some, but I passed. I just didn’t want gobs of sugar first thing in the morning. But I would have loved to be one of her kids! Lol

  6. Nutella changed. Its was once sold in small jars. Now it's every where on the planet since the boom of PALM oil. This stuff is toxic now and made by the bucket.

  7. It has chocolate in it, so of course it's gonna have a lot of sugar and fats. There's no shame in eating Neutella so as long it's in moderation. Eat it every day, and yeah you're gonna have a problem. I would spread it over matzos and mix it with peanut butter every once in a while.

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