Pop tarts vs. Toaster Strudel

I'm not currently including either one in my everyday diet, but when I do indulge, it depends on my mood. Blueberry toaster strudel is my fave when I want a strudel. When I want a Pop-Tart, it's an unfrosted strawberry with butter on top! I can't believe nobody else has even mentioned the unfrosted Pop-Tarts!!!

What I refuse to do is to excuse your apparent orthorexia.

Well, it's pretty apparent that you share no such obsession.

Taste-wise, the Toaster Strudel, but the Pop Tart wins for laziness. TS requires assembly, and sometimes more than one cycle in the toaster.

Pop Tarts aren't a drink, and correlation does not equal causation.

If you want to keep rationalizing your dietary choices, I'm not going to burst your bubble. But results speak for themselves.

It's rational to eat food. It's irrational to suggest that food never be eaten. I do agree that results speak for themselves. I'm proud of my successes!

The point about the drink is that liquid sugar hits your system quicker. Diabetics are advised to avoid sugary drinks, including fresh juices, unless their blood sugar is too low, in which case a glass of OJ is the perfect remedy.




What I refuse to do is to excuse your apparent orthorexia.

There, that's actually a healthy breakfast that will leave you feeling full, contribute to the creation and retention of lean mass, and avoid giving you Type 2 diabetes.

So all you've done is compared pop tarts to eggs. I still fail to see why you call it garbage? How's it going to give me type 2? Sugar doesn't give you diabetes. Why do I claim that? Because science.

I hit my micro nutrient goals quite easily by nautre of my diet, which you seem to ignore. By the time I've finished my third meal I've eaten 2 - 2.5 lbs of vegetables, 1.5 - 2 lbs of lean meat (primarily chicken breast), almonds, cottage cheese, whey, a mutli-vitamin, & fish oil supplement. As well as 16+ glasses of water.

I don't eat breakfast, so that argument is invalid.

To what would you like me to compare your vaunted Pop Tarts? A chicken breast? A clump of broccoli? How about a protein shake, which someone else mentioned? Pop Tarts are garbage - I won't even mention what goes into them as far as preservatives and food coloring, so let's just focus on the basic ingredients: bleached flour, sugar, and fat to hold it all together. Or, from Kellogg's own website: ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), BROWN SUGAR (SUGAR, MOLASSES), SOYBEAN AND PALM OIL (WITH TBHQ FOR FRESHNESS), CORN SYRUP, DEXTROSE, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CRACKER MEAL. I'll stop there before we get to the stuff that can't be pronounced (your "science", I believe).

In your diet you describe, do you routinely sit down to eat a bowl of flour (don't let the "wheat" part fool you, all flour is wheat-based, they're not contending whole wheat)? Plenty of sugar? Doing shots of palm oil, the worst of the oils? Mainlining corn syrup?

I hope the answer is "no". I mean, after all this is not myFATnesspal.com, unless I'm mistaken.

If you can read just that partial ingredient list, and not come to the conclusion that, yes Virginia, Pop Tarts ARE garbage and Frankenfood - well, there's not much more to say.

To what would you like me to compare your vaunted Pop Tarts? A chicken breast? A clump of broccoli? How about a protein shake, which someone else mentioned? Pop Tarts are garbage - I won't even mention what goes into them as far as preservatives and food coloring, so let's just focus on the basic ingredients: bleached flour, sugar, and fat to hold it all together. Or, from Kellogg's own website: ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), BROWN SUGAR (SUGAR, MOLASSES), SOYBEAN AND PALM OIL (WITH TBHQ FOR FRESHNESS), CORN SYRUP, DEXTROSE, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CRACKER MEAL. I'll stop there before we get to the stuff that can't be pronounced (your "science", I believe).

In your diet you describe, do you routinely sit down to eat a bowl of flour (don't let the "wheat" part fool you, all flour is wheat-based, they're not contending whole wheat)? Plenty of sugar? Doing shots of palm oil, the worst of the oils? Mainlining corn syrup?

I hope the answer is "no". I mean, after all this is not myFATnesspal.com, unless I'm mistaken.

If you can read just that partial ingredient list, and not come to the conclusion that, yes Virginia, Pop Tarts ARE garbage and Frankenfood - well, there's not much more to say.

i love how these threads always result in some food phobic (usually a member in good standing of the paleo/primal/clean eating cults) posting the list of ingredients in pop tarts (or toaster strudels) as a way to prove they are "bad". :laugh:

ooohhhhhhh scary! ...eh, kids?

i love how these threads always result in some food phobic (usually a member in good standing of the paleo/primal/clean eating cults) posting the list of ingredients in pop tarts (or toaster strudels) as a way to prove they are "bad". :laugh:

ooohhhhhhh scary! ...eh, kids?

food phobic? orthorexic? really? we're still doing this?

enjoy your thread, but the thinly veiled digs about having a psychological disorder need to stop. it's no different than calling someone anorexic which would get your reported/a strike/banned/etc

many, MANY people prefer not to ingest synthetically produced chemical additives, and that's perfectly fine.

Which is fine, until they jump onto threads telling us we're all going to die/get horrible diseases from foods that are perfectly fine in moderation. :noway:

I mean come on he said

In your diet you describe, do you routinely sit down to eat a bowl of flour (don't let the "wheat" part fool you, all flour is wheat-based, they're not contending whole wheat)? Plenty of sugar? Doing shots of palm oil, the worst of the oils? Mainlining corn syrup?

that's a little OTT :huh: it's just a pop tart. FFS.

My favorite Pop Tart is no longer made, so Toaster Strudels.

They're both gross Franken-food. I don't think I've had one since I was 15.

REALLY?!? "Gross Franken-Food" ...and how does that changes the taste?

Because if you have a habit of not pouring garbage down your throat, eating something like Toaster Strudel so bothers your conscience that you don't notice it's "flavor". I mean, Pop Tarts? Maybe if you're 9 years old.