Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Little Debbie Maddness!!


OATMEAL CREME PIES:
It's very soft, no chewing necessary. 
It's very tasty though. 
It has a raisiny, cinnamony taste without a rough oat texture.
The creme, however, has a very mild taste  and scent, if eaten by itself.
In the end, the oatmeal cookie  layers  are very sweet.
Ingredients:
Corn Syrup, Enriched Bleached Flour, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and Cottonseed Oil, Sugar, Whole Grain Oats, Water, Dextrose, Molasses, Raisins.
Leavening, Whey, Salt, Emulsifiers, Corn Starch, Eggs, Palm and Palm Kernel Oil, Soybean Oil, Egg Whites, Cocoa, Coconut, Dried Apples, Rice Flour, Non-fat Dairy Milk, Modified Corn Starch, Carrageenan, Colours, Sorbic Acid, Spices, Natural And Artificial Flavours, Citric Acid, Pectin, Sodium Citrate.
NOTES:
Sugar can be found within the first 5 ingredients twice and 4 times within the first 10 ingredients, which are deemed to be the core ingredients of this cookie. After number 10 there is a little notice saying (contains 2% or less of each of the following)
In total, there are 35 ingredients listed. It's made with Whole Grain Oats (ingredient 6) but it contains less than 1 gram of fibre.
I do not agree with the SERVING SIZE being 1.....seriously, who eats just ONE cookie??
Anyway, here is what a realistic version of the Nutrition Facts panel should be (I multiplied everything by 3).  
To me, 3 cookies is a factual portion size. In my experience the average consumer would find it a chore to calculate the caloric content of the portion they consumed.




(click the nutrition facts panesl to enlarge)

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