07/10/2021
Please always turn the packet over.
If there’s a lot of numbers or ingredients you don’t recognise, it’s probable your body won’t either! 😓
And just when you think food manufacturing can't get any more mad than Zooper Dooper Flavoured Milk, in comes Slush Puppy Pouches.
This is why The Root Cause Stands for Children's Health.
This is why myself and our team of incredible instructors are passionate about empowering kids to learn to ask What's In My Food?!!
Let me break this one down for you by looking at the packet.
Firstly let's look at the marketing on the front of this packet.
👉It's Blue Raspberry. Turn the packet around and you'll find there are NO Raspberries in this at all.😡
👉Look at that Slushy dog - Isn't he cute? Oh and he has his thumb up and licking his chops, so it must taste great. Bet he's meant to attract the attention of just adults, don't you think😂
👉Find your flavour - inviting you to buy more than one and choose which one you think is the best.
👉250ml
This is why in our Kids Health Quest Membership and our Children's Health Program for schools, we teach the kids to ignore the front of the packet.
The front tells you absolutely nothing about what's in this product at all.
Let's turn it over and look at the back now.
Look for the ingredients first. If there's more than 5 ingredients, it's an ultra-processed product food which means it is an industrialised formulation.
🎇Ultra processed foods are not foods required for health and they usually do not help our one body for life. In fact, in many cases, they take away from their health. 🎇
There are 11 ingredients in this 250ml pouch. It falls squarely in the domain of an ultra processed food.
Breaking the ingredients down. Here's what you need to know.
The ingredients are always listed in the order of highest to lowest in terms of volume.
👉Water
👉Sugar
👉Apple Juice Concentrate (fancy name for sugar)
👉Humectant (422) usually used to extend shelf life but sometimes to add a sweet tasting properties
👉Flavour - who the bleep knows what's in this????
👉Food Acid (330) - usually used to extend shelf life. Some people may be affected by this - symptoms may include allergic or hypersensitive reactions, and skin ailments like eczema
👉Preservatives (202, 211) - 202 is Potassium Sorbate and 211 is Sodium Benzoate. Both maybe derived from petroleum and potential effects may include allergic reactions, asthma, headaches, hyperactivity, skin irritations, stomach upsets.
👉 Colour 133 - Brilliant Blue colour. Derived from petroleum with potential effects of allergic reactions, gastrointestinal symptoms, may cause hyperactivity, prohibited in foods for infants, suspected carcinogen, suspected mutagen, suspected neurotoxicity.
The Information about additives has been sourced from the Chemical Maze app.
But if you're still thinking about this product, let's go look at The Nutrition Information Panel.
What we're looking for here is the amount of sugar, fat and salt in a product. When looking at this panel, look at the per serve column to work out how much you are getting per serve.
👉Fat is 0g in this product
👉Carbohydrate Sugar - 46.2g - this is 11.55 tsp of Added / Free Sugar!!! The World Health Organisation recommends for optimal health, ADULTS have 6tsp across the ENTIRE day. This one pouch has almost double an adult recommendation for the entire day!!!
👉Sodium - 20mg - this amount of sodium is ok (less than 120mg sodium per 100g is low salt)
So there you have it. That's what is in a Blue Raspberry Slushy Pouch.
I'll leave you to determine whether you think this food would be helping yours or your kids one body for life.
I'd be interested to hear your comments.
Like we teach kids in our membership and Children's Health Program for schools,
🌟Always remember to ask What's In My Food? 🌟
