13 "Health Foods" That Aren't

It's easy to be swayed by claims like "Fat-free," "A full serving of vegetables in every ounce," or the mere suggestion of fruit on a label. But many foods positioned as "healthy" may still have ingredients lurking in them (often it's sugar) that make it a little less healthy than we're led to believe. Often when we eat "diet" or "health-labeled" foods (usually consumed at snack time), we think they don't really count as "real" calories, which means we often feel less satisfied and wind up eating more.

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Diet Yogurt

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It's tempting to look only at grams of fat and calories and assume that tells the full story. What you learn when you read the ingredients on this brand is that the yogurt contains food starch (not bad for you per se but usually an indication of lower quality yogurt), aspartame (the popular artificial sweetener), and artificial colors. Get more food facts and inspiration from The Sweet Beet. Photo Copyright, The Sweet Beet

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It's tempting to look only at grams of fat and calories and assume that tells the full story. What you learn when you read the ingredients on this brand is that the yogurt contains food starch (not bad for you per se but usually an indication of lower quality yogurt), aspartame (the popular artificial sweetener), and artificial colors.

Get more food facts and inspiration from The Sweet Beet.

Photo Copyright, The Sweet Beet

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Comments

[HeavenlyTea]

06:57 PM on 02/08/2011

Lately I'm beginning to think it's better to eat a little of something wholesome and organic that a lot of something else....

[jFlagg]

10:39 AM on 01/20/2011

Aspartame is a nero-Toxin. If you are ingesting this chemical you in danger. If children are eating or drinking this chemical they are in DANGER. Look it up

[John Hagman]

09:03 PM on 01/19/2011

The attack on Terra Chips is unfair, plain potatoes are a white food nearly devoid of fiber and nutrition.

[beth0779]

10:50 AM on 01/19/2011

I don't know which SunChips you reviewed, but the original flavor in the LARGE bag contain 210 calories. As for a SINGLE serving of Sun Chips, there are 140 calories for a 16-chip serving...a good amount of calories, for the SINGLE portion one should be eating anyhow.

[NHBill]

01:14 AM on 01/18/2011

Here's all you need to know about nutrition:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/2345/saturday-night-live-little-chocolate-donuts

[Walter Correa III]

11:44 PM on 01/17/2011

i love raisin bran but more sugar than cocoa puffs. i'd rather regular bran flakes and top it off with my own raisins.

[Walter Correa III]

11:42 PM on 01/17/2011

i'd buy odwalla but 5 to 6 buck per bottle is too expensive for me. unless i think well it's all fruit. if i did intend to buy it, i would dilute it with an equal amount of water.

[Walter Correa III]

11:41 PM on 01/17/2011

what's the difference with ice cream and yogurt except for the fat content. yet it still has a high amount of sugar in both of them.

[Walter Correa III]

11:40 PM on 01/17/2011

i use to use smart balance because i thought it was good for me then i realized that there's a harmful preservative in it.

now i use organic and it's so much better! no harmful preservatives in me.

[Walter Correa III]

11:39 PM on 01/17/2011

i love these but they are so darn expensive for air and sugar.

[persuter]

07:13 PM on 01/17/2011

Note that margarine sticks have trans fat but margarine tubs generally don't.

[UberdanSounds]

04:30 PM on 01/17/2011

To all those who keep saying Aspartame is ok for consumption...

http://www.naturalnews.com/011804_aspartame_NutraSweet.html

I strongly recommend Dr. Russell Blaylock's book "Excitotoxins".

[Kevin Wheeler]

03:42 PM on 01/17/2011

I don't think clif bars are bad. They can be a quick meal when eaten with a piece of fruit. Probably a bad thing to snack on though..

[The Sweet Beet]

08:43 AM on 01/19/2011

You're right, and I believe I was overly harsh on Clif, and unfair of me to single them out. (There are many less healthy snacks out there than Clif bars.) I have actually just written an "update" on that slide, to note these sentiments. Thanks for your comment.

[jimivu]

07:40 PM on 01/16/2011

In this culture where people casually eat pure junk like cake, cookies, pancakes etc, eating half-junk foods is progress.

[Marklar]

05:56 PM on 01/16/2011

My question is...Who ever thought any of this stuff was healthy?

[Copperpot]

06:58 PM on 01/17/2011

My thoughts exactly.

[tomLchristensen]

07:23 PM on 01/17/2011

seriously. though look at the results of just about any major poll and the answer becomes pretty clear pretty fast. we have, in the US, what you might call a pretty major thinking deficit.