Y'all are a bunch of googling fools. So many right answers! So many right-ish answers, too! I'm going to have to be more tricky for the next contest, I think.
SInce so many of you guys got them right, I'm calling it early. Prizes for everyone!
For the record: Here are the products in question -
SunnyD® Reduced Sugar
Cool Whip light
Reduced Fat Jif Peanut Butter Creamy
Diet Pepsi
Sugar Free Fat Free Instant Jello Chocolate Pudding
How do you feel about these products, after reading the list of ingredients? Are you freaked out (like me) or fine with it (like Mel over at The Amazing Shrinking Mom) - I admit to still craving and occasionally eating these foods, albeit the full-fat, regular sugar varieties. Better living through science is something that we, as good little consumers, tend to believe. Should that apply to our food?
Oy, my daughter is hauling me away from the monitor. I'll post the names of the winners and the prizes in a bit.
Barf. I have that Jell-O pudding in my pantry.
What's really awful is the high fructose corn syrup. I read "Fat Land" by Greg Critser and was completely repulsed. Basically, sugar was getting too expensive and had to be imported, so the government subsidized farmers to grow more corn, and corn syrup was used as a cheaper, domestically-produced alternative sweetener. Fructose is metabolized much differently than sucrose - much less processing, so to speak - and is much tougher on our bodies.
Anyway. Avoid the HFCS. Bad stuff.
Posted by: mothergoosemouse | 07/07/2006 at 02:27 PM
I like to shop at Whole Foods because the ingredient lists on stuff I buy there are readable and relatively short, but my kids won't eat natural peanut butter for anything. I have to make special trips to other grocery stores just to get peanut butter.
Posted by: CreativeMaMd | 07/08/2006 at 03:04 AM
The only product I buy from this list is the pudding. I heard the Surgeon General on NPR say that one of the biggest contributing factors of the obesity problem in this country is the use of High Fructose Corn Syrup. If you read cookbooks from the fifties when everything was made from scratch, people ate cake and pie almost every day, made with real ingredients, and they didn't have the obesity rates we do now. Sounds to me like a little real sugar is better than lots of corn syrup.
Posted by: Elizabeth | 07/08/2006 at 02:26 PM
Is it weird that I don't want my kids eating that crap, but I don't mind eating it myself (particularly if it helps me lose weight)? I make sure I buy only all-natural stuff for them - no preservatives, no fake sugar, no artificial colors or flavors, etc. But I'm ALL about Diet coke and pop tarts for myself.
Posted by: Amanda | 07/09/2006 at 09:42 AM
I swear that I already KNEW the answers (well, except for the Diet Pepsi beacause I thought it was Diet Coke) I just double checked myself with Google so I wouldn't appear all stupid and such in your lovely blog comments. You know, like saying that one of them was a disposable diaper, which I almost did until I read the artificial flavors. Ahem. Great contest!
Posted by: Carrie | 07/10/2006 at 03:34 PM