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Note from Maria: I am a Registered Dietitian with a Master of Public Health Degree in Nutrition from UNC at Chapel Hill. I have a passion for helping people with nutrition & wellness, especially moms. Women & moms provide care for everyone else often at the expense of considering their own needs. I hope to provide good resources to you to help you make nutrition and wellness a priority.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Are you kidding me???

nutrition factsHave you seen these new cookies "Who Nu". They are essentially an Oreo-like cookie with some extra vitamins/minerals tossed in and they are claiming them to be healthy. Do not be fooled by these claims! This is NOT health food! Two cookies (who eats ONLY two cookies anyway?!?!) has 5 grams of fat and 2 grams of those are saturated fat. The first ingredient is sugar (they are listed in order of content by weight...ie the first ingredient is the most abundant in the product). The ingredient list looks amazingly similar to Oreos, which I have included below. According to the package 2 regular Oreos contains 90 calories, 4 grams of fat & 1 gram of saturated fat. It has less fiber because they didn't add any "fake fiber" in the Oreos.  I can't believe they actually are promoting the Who Nu as being healthy. If you want to treat yourself once in a while, go ahead and eat a cookie. However, it you are really interested in having a truly healthy sweet snack, eat a piece of fruit instead!

OREO Ingredients: SUGAR, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID), HIGH OLEIC CANOLA OIL AND/OR PALM OIL AND/OR CANOLA OIL, AND/OR SOYBEAN OIL, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORNSTARCH, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), SALT, SOY LECITHIN (EMULSIFIER), VANILLIN - AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CHOCOLATE. CONTAINS: WHEAT, SOY.

WHO NU INGREDIENTS: SUGAR, WHEAT FLOUR, POLYDEXTROSE, VEGETABLE OILS (SOYBEAN WITH MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, CANOLA, PALM AND PALM KERNEL OIL), COCOA, DEXTROSE, CORN SYRUP, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, BAKING SODA, SOY LECITHIN, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS. VITAMINS AND MINERALS: CALCIUM CARBONATE, VITAMIN C (ascorbic acid), IRON ORTHOPHOSPHATE, ZINC OXIDE, COPPER OXIDE, MANGANESE GLUCONATE, IODINE, CHROMIUM CHLORIDE, VITAMIN E (tocopherol acetate), VITAMIN A (palmitate), BIOTIN, VITAMIN B3 (niacin), VITAMIN B5 (pantothenic acid), VITAMIN D3, VITAMIN K (phytonadione), VITAMIN B1 (thiamine mononitrate), VITAMIN B6, VITAMIN B2, VITAMIN B12, FOLIC ACID.
CONTAINS: Soy, Wheat

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