What are some of your unpopular opinions about food?
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Decades ago, I attended a seminar at work on "Eating Right". At the time, Snapple was fairly new, and I had switched to it from cokes and other sodas. The presenter at one point took a Snapple, a teaspoon and a jar of sugar and began scooping sugar into a bowl, one teaspoon at a time, asking us to raise our hand when we thought she had added as much sugar as was in the bottle of Snapple. As I recall, it was around 10-12 teaspoons! Unfortunately, I still drank Snapple after that... but I no longer saw it as that much healthier of an alternative.
(I haven't had a Snapple in probably a decade)1 -
I can't understand the rational in not looking at food labels when purchasing...(I guess that's unpopular?) However I do think the majority of the population have WAY to much faith in food companies keeping themselves nutritionally healthy.
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I can't understand the rational in not looking at food labels when purchasing...(I guess that's unpopular?) However I do think the majority of the population have WAY to much faith in food companies keeping themselves nutritionally healthy.
I think it's more that most people don't know what to even look for. My aunt, for example, will say oh wow this juice is only 80 calories and 0 fat!! I can drink it all, it's so great and low calorie (when the bottle is a few servings). She does the same with ice cream. She doesn't understand the concept of serving size no matter how many times I explain it to her. Or people see 250 for granola and that doesn't phase them, they think that is low amount of calories. Others simply just don't know how many calories/sugar/etc they should be having in a day.3 -
I think the reality is, most people don't really look at the nutritional info. At least, I know I didn't in decades past. When I first started looking at labels to track my grams of fat, protein and carbs, I was shocked to find that one of my favorite foods (Marie Callendar's Chicken Pot Pie) had 46 grams of fat, which was more than I was supposed to consume all day! Some people are a little more aware these days, but still, a lot of people just eat what they want -- hence the large percentage of the population that are suffering from obesity.3
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Saw chocolate covered strawberries in the other thread and made me think of this, LOL.
I love fruit and I LOVE chocolate, but dislike chocolate covered fruit. I'd much rather have a bar of chocolate and a bowl of fruit separately. I don't like the texture of fruit and chocolate together. Something about the juiciness of the fruit ruins the chocolate. I like fruit and chocolate flavored things or bars with fruit and chocolate, just not chocolate covered juicy fruit.8 -
^I get this...I can't say strawberries/chocolate are my favorite - but I've enjoyed the ones I've had I guess... I, however, absolutely love chocolate w/ dried fruits/nuts/nut-seed butters.2
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^ I'm no fan of chocolate and fruit either, except Terry's Chocolate Orange. It works for me because there's no fruit liqueur/syrup, like a chocolate-covered cherry. Instead, the orange flavor is infused into the chocolate. There's a similar Chocolate Raspberry that's also good.1
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I don’t like chili and chocolate together, not in a chocolate bar, not in mole, no chili in my hot chocolate. Just no!
Love chili! Love chocolate!2 -
frankwbrown wrote: »^ I'm no fan of chocolate and fruit either, except Terry's Chocolate Orange. It works for me because there's no fruit liqueur/syrup, like a chocolate-covered cherry. Instead, the orange flavor is infused into the chocolate. There's a similar Chocolate Raspberry that's also good.
oh yes...I forgot about cherries/raspberries and chocolate - pretty yummy stuff! (I think I'm not the 'strawberry/chocolate' fan is because strawberries aren't a favorite fruit of mine)0 -
frankwbrown wrote: »I think the reality is, most people don't really look at the nutritional info. At least, I know I didn't in decades past. When I first started looking at labels to track my grams of fat, protein and carbs, I was shocked to find that one of my favorite foods (Marie Callendar's Chicken Pot Pie) had 46 grams of fat, which was more than I was supposed to consume all day! Some people are a little more aware these days, but still, a lot of people just eat what they want -- hence the large percentage of the population that are suffering from obesity.
I had that same experience with their pot pies. I use to love them2 -
pancakerunner wrote: »
LOL
Also these... I used to think they were sooo healthy because “‘no added sugar” and just fruit juice but 290 calories for a tiny container.
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Ugh, do not even get me started on the tragedy that is consumer nutrition education.2
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pancakerunner wrote: »Ugh, do not even get me started on the tragedy that is consumer nutrition education.
I think the problem is at least as much consumer nutrition *learning*. Pretty much everyone in the developed world got adequate arithmetic and story problem *education*, probably most even some on-ramp algebra.
How often, despite that, do we see posts around here that don't know how to figure the calories in 8-slice frozen pizza when the label calories are per 1/3 pizza; or how to deal with a database entry whose default quantity is 85g (let alone 3oz!) when they ate 53g of it; etc.
It's shocking. IMO, lots of life is an arithmetic story problem (taxes, mortgages, investments, retirement savings, more), and a big segment of the population Can't Deal.
It isn't always the education (system) that's the problem. Sometimes it's the attentiveness/interest of the students. I had nutrition education in school (waaaaaay back decades). Some of the people who went to school with me are hapless and helpless, despite.6 -
Eating mushrooms is like eating slimey poop growths3
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I'll take all the mushrooms you don't want, but if you like you can have all the battered/deep fried fast food onion rings...I can't even stand the smell of them either - 🤢2
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I love coriander (Cilantro for those of you in the US!)
Seriously, I'll put it on pretty much anything.1 -
Cucumbers (and anything remotely similar) are the devil!
An yes I know they are something like 95% water. But its horrible water!3 -
Daiya is one of the worst tasting vegan cheeses. There are so many way better tasting brands.
I always hear people raving about daiya and using it at restaurants when there are so many way better tasting ones.1 -
Carrots are disgusting.1
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