Hey friends! After my unhealthy health foods or deceivingly unhealthy foods
episode a lot of you requested that I do a part 2. So today I am drawing inspiration from that and I am sharing 5 unhealthy healthy snack foods. So that is snacks that are marketed with claims that they are healthy but I'm gonna show you today that they actually aren't much better for you than their conventional counterparts. Pretty much I went to the store, I sat down on the floor, and I read the labels for hours.
First up: veggie chips. Did you see my organic foods rant video? Oh look! These are free from 101 artificial preservatives and ingredients and they look organic. First let's talk about macros and compare these two a good old-fashioned bag of potato chips. So side-by-side you can see that the macros are pretty similar. So the first thing you want to do when you compare 2 labels is make sure that the serving size is the same and when you look at that here you see it's 1 ounce and
28 grams for both so great this is easy. There is only a 30 calorie and 3 grams of fat difference between the two which isn't really that much and the carbohydrates are exactly the same and when most people think about what scares them with these unhealthy snack foods like chips what do they think? Carbs, yes. Now we must remember carbs are not the enemy and neither of these choices are bad because of the carbs. Carbs are fantastic fuel and so are potatoes but both of
these have so much added fat that they aren't really offering any fuel and it's not healthy fat. So the main reason that these and most of the other items you're gonna look at today aren't healthy is because they aren't fuel. So once you look at the nutrition label you're gonna wanna move down to the ingredients list and I always say that a shorter ingredients list is better. But wait! The original lays have less ingredients! So yes, the lays only require potatoes,
oil, and salt. That's a pretty short list and remember that these labels are required to put those ingredients in order of most used to least used in the product. So there's obviously mostly potatoes followed by oil and salt. The veggie chips however have a longer list. Probably because of all the vegetables The first ingredient is potatoes. Where are the veggies? Oh wait, there they are at the bottom. There is tomato puree, spinach powder, and beet powder for color. So this means there isn't really any
vegetables in these. If there were there would be a little bit of fiber. Which we can see comparing the 2 there's not. There's the exact same amount 1 gram of fiber in both. These chips are dyed these colors to make me think they're nutritious! How rude! So as you can see these are pretty much fried potatoes. That's what chips are and even a lot of the baked brands have just as much oil and fat as the healthier healthier veggie chips or the classic potato chips and they're going to try and get you with the claims. They're
gluten-free, no preservatives, reduced fat. But remember these claims don't make an item healthy. They don't make it fuel. They just make them less bad. The unfortunate truth in there isn't really a healthy chip that is providing fuel on the market. I guess quest chips might kind of count. Now options like these oh so delicious snap pea crisps might be considered a little bit better. They do have a little bit less fat and a little bit more fiber the
base is a true vegetable but it's still a vegetable that is baked in a ton of oil. With that much added fat it can hardly count as a vegetable. Next up, fruit snacks. Oh so these are just like fruits but in gummy form. Not quite in reality these aren't much better for you than the traditional gummy bear. Now if you watched my healthy candy choices from Halloween then you'll know that gummy candies have their own nutritional drawbacks. Alright so
comparing the macros of these the first thing we have to recognize is the serving size is not the same 23 grams for the gummies and 39 grams for the gummy bears. So let's take a look at what happens to the macros when we change the 39 grams of gummy bears to equate to the 23 grams. Cross multiply, divide, channel your 7th grade math teacher, and WHOA they're the same. Yup, the macros are almost identical. Please note that even though these are fruity there is no fiber noted even in the
label at all. How about the ingredients? Is there actually any fruit? The lists are about the same length, the organic might actually have a little bit of a longer list. Both of the fruit snacks contains some fruit juice from concentrate but we know if you watch my concentrates video that concentrate isn't really good for us either. It's not fuel. Now the first ingredient in all of these is corn syrup the organic is tapioca syrup but that is pretty much a replacement for corn
syrup. Now tapioca is made from cassava or yucca. It's a woody shrub or root usually grown in South A
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