Top 10 Items sold in supermarkets
Top ten items sold in supermarkets…
remember you are what you eat !!
Source: Marlborough Express
1. Coco cola 1.5L
2. Watties spaghetti 420 gm
3. Coco cola 2.25L
4. QB Natures fresh white toast
5. Watties baked beans 420 gm
6. Dole Baby bananas
7. Tip Top super soft white toast
8. Sprite Lemonade 1.5l
9. QB Molenburg original toast 700g
10. Coke Zero 1.5l
And what they'll do to you...
Nutritionist JACQUIE DALE analyses the top five supermarket sellers
1 Coca Cola (1.5l bottles): One litre of Coke contains more than 1800 empty kilojoules. You would have to walk fast for more than two hours to wqork that off. A litre of Coke contains 106g of sugar. I call Coke nakes carbs - lots of empty calories with no nutrients. Drinking a lot of Coke is a sure way to develop problems such as type 2 diabetes.
2 Wattie's spaghetti (420g): This food is low in fat, but high in sodium. A better meal would be to make spaghetti from scrtach and all plenty of vegetbles and canned tomatoes.
3 Coke again (2.25l): Cheaper than milk. how sad. I don;t classify Coke as a food. It offers no worthy nutrients.
4 QB Nature's Fresh White Toast: On, no. Nakes carbs again. No so bad if you're going to pack two slices with lots of salad and some lean protien but if this is going to be a toast, jam or Nutella feast then white bread is not a healthy option. Wholegrain loaves are more expensive, but are filling and much more nutritious. Hopefully all this white bread isn't going under the spaghetti, becuase the tomato sauce doesn't count as a vege serve.
5 Wattie's baked beans (420g): Although beans are good for you and packed with fibre, a can of baked beans has almost 30g of sugar. This is a low-fat product and high in fibre, but does require 1890mg of salt and 29g of sugar to make it taste good?
Take your time when shopping and read the labels. Big companies are great at marketing what looks like healthy foods but don't always tell you all the facts of what are in their products.
