Smart Kraft Dinner (made with califlower)

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welly5
welly5 Posts: 293 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I've seen the kraft dinner mac and cheese in stores that are made with vegetable flour. I hadn't bought it yet and now I'm glad I passed it up.

This article outlines the nutritional changes to the product and you end up with:

12% more saturated fat
9% more sodium
12% more sugar
4% less protein

(full article here http://www.weightymatters.ca/2010/05/badvertising-kd-smart-thinks-youre-kd.html)

Mac and cheese is a treat food so no point eating a less tasty one that is actually worse for you

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  • EDesq
    EDesq Posts: 1,527 Member
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    I agree, so why do you think they put it out there? Do you think that they think "we" don't read labels and would believe it is a more healthy "better" product. Who would be interested in this product...maybe those who are lactose intolerant only, and they would be eating even more unhealthy, too.
  • welly5
    welly5 Posts: 293 Member
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    They just want to cash in on the healthy product market and are too lazy to make an actual healthy product.

    Plus you get less pasta in each box and it costs more than the classic kind. It's just such a lame product and so misleading
  • barefootbeauty
    barefootbeauty Posts: 188 Member
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    If I'm going to indulge in something like pasta and cheese... then its going to be the REAL ooey, gooey made-from-scratch with all fresh cheese type. :)

    http://www.sarasnow.com/recipe?action=retrieveRecipeDetailsHTML&recipeID=44&destinationpage=/pg/jsp/community/recipes/recipedetail.jsp
  • welly5
    welly5 Posts: 293 Member
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    I'd rather have the real homemade stuff too, it just irks me that they are trying to pretend it's health food

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