Low-Fat Cinnamon Pop Tarts:
Enriched wheat flour, sugar, brown sugar, dextrose, vegetable oil, high fructose corn syrup, cracker meal, glycerin, wheat starch, salt, leavening, cornstarch, cinnamon, sodium steraoyl lactylate, DATEM, gelatin, caramel color, Xanthan gum, niacinamide, reduced iron vitamin A palmitate, ..and then some shit that I can’t spell, much less pronounce.
#1 - jesushfuckingchrist - that’s a LOT of sugar
#2 - why is there gelatin in a pop-tart? I’m not eating pudding or jell-0!
#3 - within some of these, like the wheat flour, are long lists of what “whole” contains. Wheat flour contains some of the following: wheat flour, thiamin mononitratem, riboflavin, folic acid. Yeah, I thought wheat flour was just that - wheat flour. What’s all that other shit?
So, being a veggie, I eat a pop-tart. I know full well that it’s a crap thing to eat - that it’s mostly sugar, but I don’t expect animal bits to be in it. Gelatin is animal bits. Pop-tarts are not vegetarian. I don’t know why this pisses me off as much as it does. I should have read the label more clearly, but it’s quite difficult to both read and understand some of these labels. It makes it hard to remain distant from the animal by-products that seem to permeate processed food. I know, I know - I shouldn’t eat all this processed crap. Well I have fresh fruit and raw carrots with me, but sometimes I just want crap. This is crap. And I just threw a whole box of pop-tarts away…..My applesauce tastes much better right now.
March 21st, 2006 at 1:50 pm
One can only imagine what the health of Americans would be if the government actually forced standards on food rather than allowing the whatever is cheap and easily mass producable approach that occurs now.
March 21st, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Now that’s an absurd thought D.
March 21st, 2006 at 3:01 pm
But I’ve been sustained by Lipton Noodle Sides and Pop Tarts for the past year! I can’t afford the healthy stuff!
March 21st, 2006 at 3:18 pm
I disagree. It shoudln’t be up to a government to tell us what to eat. We as individulas should be responsible for what we eat, and if we as individuals werent lazy gluttonous pigs then good items like salad and sushi would be available for cheep.
Gelatin is used for your filling. Its used to make it sticky. If you look there is also gelatin in lots of other things including jello and jams and syrups. In general its a way to make things thicker. Go Gelatin.
Flour isn’t just flour. Hell, I’ve never seen a plant that is bright white to start with
- Thiamin, Riboflavin and Folic Acid are also known as Vitamins B1,B2 and B9 respectively and ares added to flour because it helps the body convert carbohydrates to energy, grow blood cells, and in genreal perform natural processes. They added it because the process of milling the flour removes lots of the natural thiamin in the wheat itself.
And with that said stop eating crap woman. Even though the flour is fine, most of the crap in a pop tart will kill you, and the funniest thing is honestly one of the worst things is the sugar. Lots of sugar leads to more complications then some of the chemicals you find in this stuff. Diabetes and obesity being the two biggies.
The More you know
March 21st, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Thanks jerk…now I want a pop tart
March 22nd, 2006 at 1:56 am
Gelatin is in all kinds of things you would probably be surprised it’s in as a jelling ingredient - like gummy bears and such. It’s also used in medicine for caplets and such. Hope all is going well with you!
March 22nd, 2006 at 8:06 am
I don’t think David was stating that the government should relegate what you should eat - rather he’s an advocate of company repsonsiblity. He has toaster pastries without gelatin. It’s not a necessary ingredient. They seem to jam shite stuff in all kinds of foods, and that frustrates me. Food companies should be producing good, healthy foods - not crap, cheap foods. Salad and sushi are not all that innocent either. If you think of where your food comes from, how it was raised/grown, and how it was harvested - well it makes you think twice. In some respects Pop-tarts are just as bad as a salad or sushi. Hidden dangers lurk in all foods.
I know all about why they add things to flour, what gelatin does, about diabetes and obesity. It may surprise you to know, but I researched this stuff quite a lot when I started with my trainer a few years ago, and when I went veggie the first time. I’m not an ignorant shopper, just a trusting one.
I know that Pop-tarts are crap. I take full responsibility for eating them, when I want to. The same way I eat fruits and veggies every day. I am not restricting my diet save the animal byproducts. I have enough to worry about without counting calories and sugar grams.
March 22nd, 2006 at 8:06 am
Thanks Tammy!!
Things are good here!
April 16th, 2007 at 10:01 am
You know it’s all about interest. The government has big interest in meat manufactures. They should just have a warning label just like they do on cigarettes. “Contains Animal bi-products”. I bet you if they did this a lot more Americans would think twice when they buy something they normally would not think had animal bi-products in it. Have a label on food would be a lot easier for everyone. Who the hell wants to read through 100 ingredients on a package.