has decided it is a good idea to give children free icecream every time
they travel on german railway.... there is a special deal for families.
Children under 15 can travel for free with their family.....
AND get free icecream...
this is not just any sort of icecream... it is:
well well well!
This a promotion of the new "X-POP" ice cream... a perfect
captive market for the product... ALL other children in the train will get this
ice cream
making it almost impossible for any "normal" parent to resist also purchasing
an icecream for their child... they KNOW the dangers of being "different"
for young children at school age....
So... what nutritional benefits do the children under 15 get from their special treat?
First weird thing... this is a german website... but it doesn't use the german
numbering system instead using 0.3 ..... they should put 0,3 because the comma us
used in Germany as the decimal sign... ohhh well
So basically not very much protein..
The thing we DO NOT see here - the main thing which is important is the amount of fructose sugar that's in it. It's becoming slowly clear that fructose is a special type of sugar that affects the body in a very particular way... and over a long period of time and REGULAR exposure... it can cause very bad effects...
(or so goes the theory...) :)
If you look at MOST processed foods - they VERY often use fructose - specifically "high fructose corn syrup" - it's very easy to produce and store - and it increases the shelf life of all products. It even has a slightly addictive quality to it... in some ways... (or so the theory goes..) :)
Let's take a look if we can find out the REAL type of sugar in this ice cream.
More questions about ingredients? - read on
The main ingredients of ice cream are milk and cream, includes milk fat, skim milk, buttermilk,cream and milk. Our other ingredients are cane sugar and glucose syrup.
Okay... so we are mainly talking "glucose" so that's not so bad... however...
the "cane sugar" term is actually hiding behind it this fact... although not SOOO scary/impressive
- Syrup: a traditional sweetener in soft drinks, now largely supplanted in the US by high fructose corn syrup, which is less expensive because of corn subsidies and sugar tariffs.[citation needed]
But what percentage is this...?
As they mentioned their other ingredients are "cane sugar" and "glucose syrup"
IN THAT ORDER (if order is important here... I guess it's an informational web site
and not bound by the same laws as nutritional labeling..)
Well I searched for a while... it's very hard to find the actual percentages of fructose
in cane sugar :).
It's hard to get good information...
Sounds like an interesting web site idea - a fructose content search engine for food.
gotta go!
Swendawg
