Tuesday, February 22
D is for Dessert, and Doh!
A few days a week when I think I've just got to have something sweet, I will go one of two routes:
1) a piece of lovely dark chocolate, dried fruit, or candied ginger.
2) a rectangular-in-shape pressed blob of various ingredients, the latest of which was this:
Ingredients: "Protein Blend (Soy Protein Isolate, Calcium Caseinate, Whey Protein Concentrate), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Honey,Cocoa (processed with alkali), Almonds, High Maltose Corn Syrup, Fructose, Sugar, Ground Almonds, Toasted Soy Pieces. Contains 2% or less of: Cocoa Butter, Lecithin, Dextrose, Natural Flavors, Fractionated Palm Kernel Oil, Oligofructose, Annatto added for color, Maltodextrin. Vitamins and Minerals: Ascorbic Acid, Calcium Phosphate, Alpha-Tocopherol Acetate, Magnesium Oxide, Ferric Orthophosphate, Vitamin E Acetate, Phytonadione, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Niacinamide, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Biotin, Calcium Pantothenate, Potassium Iodide, Zinc Oxide, Sodium Selenite, Copper Gluconate, Manganese Sulfate, Chromium Chloride, Sodium Moybdate."
In a word, blech. Note that the above concoction had these nutritional daily amounts in it:
Potassium 6%
Vitamin A 50%
Vitamin K 25%
Vitamin B12 25%
Zinc 25%
Thiamin 25%
Biotin 25%
Selenium 25%
Vitamin C 100%
Riboflavin 25%
Pantothenic Acid 25%
Copper 25%
Calcium 10%
Niacin 25%
Phosphorus 15%
Manganese 25%
Iron 25%
Vitamin B6 25%
Iodine 25%
Chromium 25%
Vitamin E 100%
Folic Acid 25%
Magnesium 10%
Molybdenum 25%
Whew. Of course, I do take a multivitamin every day, so perhaps this is designed for someone who does not? I highly doubt that people who eat these food products are the types that are NOT taking their vitamins, so if they also eat breakfast cereal and the myriad other fortified products out there, it might be wise to give up that multi.
Item #2 should really be replaced with a similar looking product, but altogether different. It is formed and blocky looking, a deep brown color, like the item above. But the similarities end there.
"Ingredients: Dates, Almonds, Walnuts, Unsweetened Coconut, Unsweetened Cocoa Powder"
Now the moment of truth, the nutrition profile:
Potassium 10%
Vitamin A 0%
Zinc 6%
Thiamin 6%
Vitamin C 0%
Riboflavin 8%
Copper 20%
Calcium 6%
Niacin 6%
Phosphorus 10%
Manganese 20%
Vitamin B6 6%
Vitamin E 10%
Folic Acid 4%
Magnesium 20%
And "strangely" enough, by starting out with real ingredients, nothing weirdo-sounding like "copper gluconate" needs to be added to bring many of those numbers well above zero. Yes, some of them ARE zero, but that's what your multivitamin (and the rest of your daily diet!) is for, no?
If you'd like to see the magical block of goodness in all its detail, just click here.
I think I'll have some dried fruit, now. And then brush my teeth.
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