Oh noes! Some of our favorite lite food… isn’t. According to Snacks: You Lie on The Daily Beast, some of my favorite munchies are lying about how healthy they are.
Skinny Cow, for example. We always have a box of bars at our house, but apparently their Weight Watcher Point counts weren’t supposed to be used (meaning they didn’t pay WW) and weren’t calculated correctly. I was in fear that the one point fudge bars were actually- gasp!-two points, but fortunately the WW site says they are still one point.
Many of the too good to be true foods were in the frozen dessert family, but there was also Sarah Lee with its “whole wheat” bread. I can just imagine the marketing folks designing that wrapper… “hey, it’s got whole wheat in it, and the white flour is also wheat so it’s still WHOLE wheat, right?”
I had heard about Pirate’s Booty being too good to be true and having to change its calorie count. It makes me suspicious about all health claims on labels, especially about “low cal” foods. And it should. Food manufacturers have figured out there is big money in appealing to dieters trying to get their daily fix snack without going overboard, and they’ll use everything they can that’s legal–or not.
What are you eating that you think is too good to be true?
