I just had a friend in town who brought a box of Nutrigrain bars. I always thought these would be a good snack (I mean, they have "nutri" and "grain" in the title they must be healthy, right?), even though I've never bought them, and I had seen the commercials with the tag phrase: "one good decision leads to another," so I checked the ingredients. Welly, well, well--I was surprised to see the first five ingredients were high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, strawberry puree concentrate, glycerin, and sugar. Translation: sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar and sugar. This reminded me that we can't rely on food companies to 1) be honest and 2) provide accurate information about the products they're hawking. They really are just trying to trick us into buying their products. Eating all this sugar disguised as a healthy snack is not a "good decision" as the good people at Nutrigrain would have us believe, and the studies show that high fructose corn syrup (the ingredient labeled first, meaning it's present in the largest quantity) causes cravings for more sugar, so it won't "lead to another" good decision--it will actually make it harder. The moral of my rant: be smart and read ingredients as well as nutrition info.
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