While we're at it... STOP hating on Pop Tarts

Pop tarts are the most nutrient void products on the market.Please do some research. If you honestly think they are ok to eat, your in for a surprise.

To follow my ice cream hating topic: Why all the hate for Pop Tarts? I'd love to hear why I shouldn't be eating two a day. My diary's open.

-M

I used to love pop tarts when I was younger. The strawberry ones with icing were my favorite. We would only get those occasionally. We just got them a little while ago, a few boxes, and they were still so good out of the toaster.

Pop tarts are the most nutrient void products on the market.Please do some research. If you honestly think they are ok to eat, your in for a surprise.

but...but I already ate one. Am I gonna die?????? I'm going to die, aren't I?????

It's because toaster strudels are better.

My dad used to get these occasionally for himself. I had a few and can't really remember what I thought of them.

I can't believe some people like poptarts without the frosting. The crust and the frosting are my favorite parts.

they are yummy but I think I could eat the entire box and still be starving plus they are empty calories (and way too many to not even be filling) but I will admit that every fall I buy several boxes of Pumpkin Pie flavor.

Pop Tarts aren't the enemy.

Nutella is the enemy.

I stopped having nutella after I tasted it and it tasted like actual fancy chocolate with hazelnuts. That is a good thing but it is not far from having the actual chocolate. I guess I would rather have the chocolate than a chocolate spread.

but you can't spread chocolate on strawberries or bananas or toast or a spoon, okay I am making myself hungry i need nutella

They just don't taste good in the UK we really only have strawberry and chocolate ones, and they're very dry/ not moist like American ones! When I go on holiday to the US I must eat my own weight in pop tarts... hot fudge sundae flavour nommmmm.

My theory about people who LOVE poptarts is that no one in their life made scrumptious flaky pie crust with numerous delicious fillings......I'd never waste 400 calories on 2 dry cardboard pies when I could have a slice of sweet/tart homemade cherry pie! Poptarts just don't measure up!

True. My dad loves pie but my mom rarely makes it so we never had it much growing up. Usually we had pie around holidays.

I eat them and recently discovered the peanut butter ones they are amazing hope they stand around for awhile. Yummmmm

Where did you find them?! I've been looking for those, and the chocolate peanut butter ones with no luck! :sad:

WalMart actually just happen to see them .Lucky me I love them I haven't seen the peanut butter chocolate though odd.

I haven't had a pop tart in years! but because of this thread I think I will change that tomorrow... peanut butter, red velvet, AND cookies and cream flavour? yes please

I have to find the peanut butter ones NOW! Seriously though, I love pop tarts!!!! S'mores are my favorite and yes I eat both of them.

Four words, since you asked... High Frucose Corn Syrup. Derived from GMO corn. HFC is one of the biggest offenders causing Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome. :indifferent:

Complete nonsense.

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May 15, 2012 in Health

Attention, college students cramming between midterms and finals: Binging on soda and sweets for as little as six weeks may make you stupid.

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A new UCLA rat study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning — and how omega-3 fatty acids can counteract the disruption. The peer-reviewed Journal of Physiology publishes the findings in its May 15 edition.

"Our findings illustrate that what you eat affects how you think," said Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, a professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a professor of integrative biology and physiology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science. "Eating a high-fructose diet over the long term alters your brain's ability to learn and remember information. But adding omega-3 fatty acids to your meals can help minimize the damage."

While earlier research has revealed how fructose harms the body through its role in diabetes, obesity and fatty liver, this study is the first to uncover how the sweetener influences the brain.

The UCLA team zeroed in on high-fructose corn syrup, an inexpensive liquid six times sweeter than cane sugar, that is commonly added to processed foods, including soft drinks, condiments, applesauce and baby food. The average American consumes more than 40 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup per year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

"We're not talking about naturally occurring fructose in fruits, which also contain important antioxidants," explained Gomez-Pinilla, who is also a member of UCLA's Brain Research Institute and Brain Injury Research Center. "We're concerned about high-fructose corn syrup that is added to manufactured food products as a sweetener and preservative."

Gomez-Pinilla and study co-author Rahul Agrawal, a UCLA visiting postdoctoral fellow from India, studied two groups of rats that each consumed a fructose solution as drinking water for six weeks. The second group also received omega-3 fatty acids in the form of flaxseed oil and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which protects against damage to the synapses — the chemical connections between brain cells that enable memory and learning.

sersly, pop tarts need love too.

They are full of chemicals, GMO ingredients, and general crap. Why would you want to put that into your body when there are so many better things for you that are just as delicious and satisfying. I had some fresh organic berries this morning from a local farm that were better than any Pop-Tart could ever dream of being.