What’s the worst food you’ve seen?

#1

We all know the obviously bad things, but there are a lot of pernicious products lurking on the supermarket shelves full of absolutely dreadful ingredients that are much better camouflaged.

To help get the ball rolling, I was at a family bbq this weekend and my sister in law had bought strawberries and cream, except it wasn’t cream…it was Elmlea: cream is a great, healthy keto food, but this cream alternative tries to pass itself off as the real thing, despite its primary ingredient being vegetable oil followed by buttermilk then a load of emulsifiers derived from Soya. It sits on the same shelf as real cream, is packaged to look the same and is priced slightly cheaper in the hopes that people just grab it without looking too hard.

This is a sneaky, sneaky product which makes it one of the worst foodstuffs I’ve seen in a long while.

Had anyone else unwittingly come across something just as dreadful?

(Karen) #2

Honestly I really don’t like the Chosen Foods avocado mayo. Gag.

K

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #3

A blend of buttermilk and vegetable oils… ewww

(Sarah Bruhn) #4

it’s endless, i particularly like the more obvious stuff like fanta with 5% fruit juice, and cereal which is a “good source of” protein (if served with milk) and iron which obviously does not naturally occur in grain.

(LeeAnn Brooks) #5

You don’t like it for the taste or the ingredients?
Curious because I use this all the time. I like the tang of it. I was always a Miricle Whip over Helman’s girl and this reminds me a bit of the MW flavor.

(Karen) #6

The taste by itself. Might be ok in coleslaw though. Bit like miracle whip you are right. .

K

(karen) #7

Always - even way way before keto - loved the cereal commercial’s “balanced breakfast.” A big bowl of cereal and a giant glass of orange juice. And then just to be sure it’s “balanced”, two slices of toast and jam. Exactly what are we balancing here? Square shapes vs. round? Why on earth add the toast?

Lately, these ‘bars’ that brag about having 20 grams of protein - Protein bars - then you check the ingredients and yeah, 20 grams of protein … and 35 grams of carb.