Will the REAL Keto Products please stand up!

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(Heather Meyer) #1

I am reminded of Eminem’s song and his line when he says “All the other Slim Shady’s are just immatates”. And it got me thinking…

Given that Keto appears to have won the “Most popular diet of this year”, there are MANY Keto products that are being labelled Keto but actually are NOT Keto. So… i thought…why not compile a list of “Keto labelled” foods that are NOT actually Keto in the truest sense. And state why! Maybe this will help prevent unsuspecting people from falling into the Keto Fad trap at the store!

                         Aaaaaand Go!
(Windmill Tilter) #2

I have a simple checklist I made to confirm that a product is keto friendly when I’m grocery shopping:

Keto Pre-Screen Checklist:

  1. It only has 1 ingredient and is in it’s original form
  2. It cannot fit through the holes in a colander
  3. If plant based, it grows above ground and it’s not a grain or fruit

It’s not a perfect checklist, but if a product checks all those boxes, there is a 95% chance that the product is a legitimate keto product and I can eat it and remain happily in ketosis. Some items fail the checklist but are still keto and take a little more thought/research to validate.

Strangely enough, this checklist rules out 99.9% of the items marketed as “keto products”. :yum:

(Full Metal KETO AF) #3

I don’t use or recommend that people use pre prepared “keto” products. I did see some keto bars at Walmart a month ago. I can’t remember the brand but they had 15 carbs per bar! Definitely not ketogenic! Plus like 30-40 ingredients in them. I fully recommend that going keto is approached as a cooking experience where you maintain complete control of your food by using natural ingredients to make your own foods. I make a few exceptions for bacon and cured meats, cheese, and a quality product like avocado oil mayo if I get a good price. I make sauerkraut, condiments, spice blends, and occasional keto baked goods from scratch. I enjoy it.

I have no desire to encourage or support industrial food products, eating factory produced foods were a big part of why I’m where I am now. I don’t need any keto version of slim fast or Jenny Craig food. :man_cook:t3:

(Stickin' with mammoth) #4

If it can stay fresh for a month on a shelf, it ain’t keto.

(sips coffee and ignores the irony)

(Carl Keller) #5

Anything that needs to say KETO on it to attract my attention is distracting me from real food. Unless they start stamping KETO on steaks, bacon, eggs and salt, you won’t see fancy keto labels in my kitchen.

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #6

If it says Keto on it then I won’t even look at it. It ruins the fun of turning food around to check the carb count and finding something I hadn’t thought of before as keto as a super low carb food. It ruins my surprised fun at the grocery store.

Seriously, though. I don’t even see that much stuff labelled keto but I tend to shop the perimeter of the store and stay away from the inner isles, except the condiment isle.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #7

The perimeter is where it’s at!:cowboy_hat_face: