Health Food?

[elsiegee40]

We have a box of snacks in the staff room being sold on behalf of the local air ambulance.

 

Idly reading the back of a packet of chocolate coated raisins... my eye was drawn to Fact No 68:

 

Are they healthy then?

 

I was reassured to see the same message on the pack of jelly beans too

[pcstru]

Are they healthy then?

In that context, define healthy. If you don't get any sugars, you will die. If the 175 million tonnes of sugar we produce a year fell on you, you would die. It's not looking good.

I was reassured to see the same message on the pack of jelly beans too

Language is a battleground, but to the Jelly Beans you are just cannon fodder. Eschew the sweet temptations they whisper and return yourself to true and pure path, listen only to the word of the EduHobnob. And, err, could you just pass the packet over here please?

[elsiegee40]

I stuck to the chocolate raisins. I have done an 11 hour day today... 10.5 hours yesterday. Some sort of snacking is required to get through days like these!

 

EduHobnobs needed supplementing

 

I have the day off to go to an eSafety conference in London tomorrow thank goodness.

[DPrince]

Conversely, fat contains no sugars and is also 100% natural.

The same could be said for arsenic.

[Miscbrah]

Plutonium is also MSG free! Just sayin'.

[eyetea]

I stuck to the chocolate raisins. I have done an 11 hour day today... 10.5 hours yesterday. Some sort of snacking is required to get through days like these!

 

I need to wake up! I thought you said you done 11 chocolate raisins per hour today

[LincolnE]

I need to wake up! I thought you said you done 11 chocolate raisins per hour today

 

I guess 10.5 would be even stranger. "Yes, I am cutting this raisin in half, I need to make the hourly quota".

[Badzeye]

Well it is correct!

 

Although I really think marketing like this should be controlled despite it not explicitly saying that sugar is good people will read that as if it is. Its like seeing adverts screaming about how good juice is for you despite it basically being different coloured coke.

[jinnantonnixx]

I went to Wikipedia to check

 

Refining

Sugars; clockwise from top-left:

White refined, unrefined,

brown, unprocessed cane

 

Cane sugar requires further processing to provide the free-flowing white table sugar required by the consumer. The sugar may be transported in bulk to the country where it will be used and the refining process often takes place there. The first stage is known as affination and involves immersing the sugar crystals in a concentrated syrup that softens and removes the sticky brown coating without dissolving them. The crystals are then separated from the liquor and dissolved in water. The resulting syrup is treated either by a carbonatation or by a phosphatation process. Both involve the precipitation of a fine solid in the syrup and when this is filtered out, a lot of the impurities are removed at the same time. Removal of colour is achieved by using either a granular activated carbon or an ion-exchange resin. The sugar syrup is concentrated by boiling and then cooled and seeded with sugar crystals causing the sugar to crystallize out. The liquor is spun in a centrifuge and the white crystals are dried in hot air and ready to be packaged or used. The surplus liquor is made into refiners' molasses.[45] The International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis sets standards for the measurement of the purity of refined sugar, known as ICUMSA numbers; lower numbers indicate a higher level of purity in the refined sugar.[46]

 

Refined sugar doesn't sound very natural to me.

 

Still, I suppose it's better than fructose or that horror HFCS which is currently under the microscope as a leading contributor to obesity.

Edited October 15, 2014 by jinnantonnixx