Healthy Foods that actualy aren't that healthy

thinking_thinly
thinking_thinly Posts: 143 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Agave Syrup- The agave tuber is processed in a chemical bath to break down the starches into a fructose syrup that contains MORE fructose than HFCS! Bleeeeeegh! When I found that out, I almost flipped. Agave syrup is touted as a healthy alternative to sugar in my recipes... I should have known better. Anything that says "syrup" in the title is NOT going to be healthy for you... well maybe real maple syrup, that has lots of natural iron.

On another note, my mom gave me some tubes of frozen ground turkey she wasn't going to use. I used one last night to make some "healthy" taco's.... I didn't think anything of it because ground turkey is "healthy" for you, right? Well, one tube contains 80g of fat! I watch my fat carefully, not to high, and not to low... but wow, 80g of fat! Not to mention, I am so used to "my" brand of ground turkey that, because of the extra fat, I blew my calories! I am sooooooooo mad at myself for not looking before I ate! However, your live you learn, and I take this as a reminder to LOOK carefully at the foods you are putting into your body!
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  • wikitbikit
    wikitbikit Posts: 518 Member
    "Tubes of Turkey" may be a decent name for a band, but it is not appetizing as a food source.

    It definitely pays to be diligent and do your own research. :)
  • GainsAndGuitars
    GainsAndGuitars Posts: 74
    Vitamin Water
  • holothuroidea
    holothuroidea Posts: 772 Member
    I've never heard agave syrup touted as a healthy alternative. I've only heard it used as an ethical alternative for people who avoid honey and gmo corn.

    I mean, as far as health goes, your body isn't going to notice a difference. Sugar is sugar.
  • fitbum19
    fitbum19 Posts: 198 Member
    I use RAW agave NECTAR. not syrup. This is actually pretty good for you
  • XtyAnn17
    XtyAnn17 Posts: 632 Member
    Dont eat the whole tube?
  • fitbum19
    fitbum19 Posts: 198 Member
    and yeah, groud turkey isn't all the great for you either. I dont eat meat anymore because of all the fat
  • ilonawie
    ilonawie Posts: 72 Member
    artifical sugar and diet pop
  • thinking_thinly
    thinking_thinly Posts: 143 Member
    Dont eat the whole tube?

    I cooked the whole thing for leftovers lol
  • MoreThanMommie
    MoreThanMommie Posts: 597 Member
    I was talking to someone that works in the meat department at our grocery store and she told me that some of the ground turkey is so high in fat is because sometimes they add the skin in order to help keep it moist. :sick:
  • clobercow
    clobercow Posts: 337 Member
    No one individual food is inherently unhealthy. It's called Food..

    food
    /fo͞od/
    Noun
    Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth.

    Main made junk can be bad.

    No one food type is bad. To much of anything is.

    Fat isn't bad
    Carbs are not bad
    Protein isn't bad

    Setting macro-nutrient goals is best, but deviating once in a while isn't bad at all either.
  • links_slayer
    links_slayer Posts: 1,151 Member
    everything but water
  • ms_leanne
    ms_leanne Posts: 523 Member
    "Tubes of Turkey" may be a decent name for a band, but it is not appetizing as a food source.

    Awesome lol
  • sullus
    sullus Posts: 2,839 Member
    Fruit, apparently. :D
  • ApexLeader
    ApexLeader Posts: 580 Member
    I was talking to someone that works in the meat department at our grocery store and she told me that some of the ground turkey is so high in fat is because sometimes they add the skin in order to help keep it moist. :sick:

    there is nothing wrong with fat
  • cw822
    cw822 Posts: 107
    Ground turkey and/or meat in general isn't bad for you...using lean cuts of any type of meat is just fine and provides an excellent source of protein
  • contingencyplan
    contingencyplan Posts: 3,639 Member
    Anything can be unhealthy when moderation is not observed.
  • thinking_thinly
    thinking_thinly Posts: 143 Member
    everything but water

    Well, it is possible to overdose on water and DIE! So... no, not water! ;p
  • thinking_thinly
    thinking_thinly Posts: 143 Member
    I was talking to someone that works in the meat department at our grocery store and she told me that some of the ground turkey is so high in fat is because sometimes they add the skin in order to help keep it moist. :sick:

    there is nothing wrong with fat

    There is nothing inherently wrong with fat, but because it is so calorie dense, I moderate my fat intake; which in turn helps me keep calories under control.
  • Natihilator
    Natihilator Posts: 1,778 Member
    On another note, my mom gave me some tubes of frozen ground turkey she wasn't going to use. I used one last night to make some "healthy" taco's.... I didn't think anything of it because ground turkey is "healthy" for you, right? Well, one tube contains 80g of fat! I watch my fat carefully, not to high, and not to low... but wow, 80g of fat! Not to mention, I am so used to "my" brand of ground turkey that, because of the extra fat, I blew my calories! I am sooooooooo mad at myself for not looking before I ate! However, your live you learn, and I take this as a reminder to LOOK carefully at the foods you are putting into your body!

    A higher fat content in that ground turkey doesn't really make it unhealthy though...
  • cw822
    cw822 Posts: 107
    right on...people don't get that you need fat in your diet....just not the stuff that comes from processed foods!
  • chels0722
    chels0722 Posts: 465 Member
    I use RAW agave NECTAR. not syrup. This is actually pretty good for you

    This is what I use as well. Plus, I buy organic pressed nectar so it is not processed. The sugars in it come from the plant. I have never heard of syrup.
  • wikitbikit
    wikitbikit Posts: 518 Member
    Lest I sounded flippant with my Tubes of Turkey comment, I should note that I have also tried the stuff. It was on sale and I thought, How bad can it be?

    Oh. Bad. It can be bad. Everything about it was bad (to me). It took me years to get over the trauma to be willing to even try a high quality ground turkey. The mere memory of it makes me feel faint now. Woe.
  • johnsher85
    johnsher85 Posts: 10 Member
    I've learned that just about anything and everything that is "processed" is a serious issue that may require avoidance when it comes to eating!! Crazy how much "junk" they put in food and then tout it as "healthy"!!

    Check out the chemicals in your home cleaning products as well!! Full of carcinogens and other harmful stuff that cause respiratory and skin problems.

    Crazy world we live in!!!
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    right on...people don't get that you need fat in your diet....just not the stuff that comes from processed foods!

    ^^ this
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    Granola bars. Granola cereal. (At least the prepackaged stuff.) I was shocked to find out the nutritional void (while being super high calorie) that those things have.
  • tjah32
    tjah32 Posts: 18 Member
    Frickin' nutella! A friend and I were browsing recipes on pinterest not long ago, and she saw these nutella cookies. Just nutella, flour and baking soda I believe. My jaw dropped when she said, "We should try these, they're mostly nutella so at least they'll be healthy,"
  • Athena53
    Athena53 Posts: 717 Member
    Vitamin Water
    I once read a question to some nutritionist from a woman whose precious 3-year old was never given nasty things like sweetened juice or (heaven forbid) pop. He did, however, really like her vitamin water and she wanted to know if it was OK for him. She gave the brand name and of course it was jsut about as bad for the kid as Coke, but with more vitamins.

    On the subject of ground meat: I'm wary of all of it. Skin is the least bad of the stuff they can throw into the grinder. What other parts that they otherwise could not sell go in? You'll never know.
  • yamsteroo
    yamsteroo Posts: 480 Member
    I don't think we have a product that equates to turkey in a tube here in the UK. Is it basically like a big sausage of turkey meat?

    We have turkey or chicken mince which is quite chunky but the look of it has put me off trying it so far. But that doesn't come in a tube.
  • skm4jc
    skm4jc Posts: 62 Member
    The reason agave is touted as a better sweetening alternative is because it's low glycemic impact. Instead of consuming something sweet like cane sugar and sending your blood glucose (BG) levels spiking and then crashing shortly after (your pancreas goes OMG SUGAR MUST BREAK DOWN NOW!!!!!!!! INSULININSULININSULININSULININSULININSULININSULIN!!!!!!!), your body processes it more slowly (pancreas says, oh hey, food . . . insulin . . . insulin . . . insulin . . . insulin . . .), minimizing BG spikes which allows your body to break down the food slower, which actually helps you lose weight.

    Basically, EVERYONE, not just diabetics, want their BG patterns to look more like a gentle wave, not spiky.

    *It should also be noted, agave is much sweeter than corn or cane sugar. Be sure to read labels; you only need something like 1/3 or 1/4 of the portion for the same amount of sweetness.*
  • bostonwolf
    bostonwolf Posts: 3,038 Member
    Agave Syrup- The agave tuber is processed in a chemical bath to break down the starches into a fructose syrup that contains MORE fructose than HFCS! Bleeeeeegh! When I found that out, I almost flipped. Agave syrup is touted as a healthy alternative to sugar in my recipes... I should have known better. Anything that says "syrup" in the title is NOT going to be healthy for you... well maybe real maple syrup, that has lots of natural iron.

    On another note, my mom gave me some tubes of frozen ground turkey she wasn't going to use. I used one last night to make some "healthy" taco's.... I didn't think anything of it because ground turkey is "healthy" for you, right? Well, one tube contains 80g of fat! I watch my fat carefully, not to high, and not to low... but wow, 80g of fat! Not to mention, I am so used to "my" brand of ground turkey that, because of the extra fat, I blew my calories! I am sooooooooo mad at myself for not looking before I ate! However, your live you learn, and I take this as a reminder to LOOK carefully at the foods you are putting into your body!

    Fat is not unhealthy. You need to eat fats in order to process fat-soluble vitamins. This is the biggest sin that corporate food marketers have perpetrated on the American public. The belief that eating fat somehow makes you fat.

    Anything processed (bars, cereals, etc) that claim to be healthy or lean will generally not help you become either.

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