I just can't anymore. I get it. Everyone wants to be independently wealthy and get out of debt. Me too. I am one of you. I sell Young Living oils. (Seriously, contact me if you want more information) So I kindly keep scrolling when I see you selling your miracle products and I even occasionally pause to look at the clear "before" pictures and absurdly grainy "after". But this week I've been inundated with a product I can give my child that will ensure she gets all her fruits and veggies. Every mom wants that! So when I saw it again this morning I did my research.
Holy heck! It's not good! The company It Works is selling what they call It Works Green Chews. All the moms claim their kids love it because it tastes like starbursts but they are getting all their fruits and veggies. In two miniscule chewy squares. There is a reason it tastes like starbursts! IT IS STARBURSTS....ACTUALLY ITS WORSE!
I compared the labels of this "healthy" snack to starbursts and this is what I found.
That’s right. 2 Starbursts actually have
less calories and carbs than the "healthier" green chews. Looking at
the ingredient list there are 2 different sugars and MSG listed first on the It Works
Green Chews and the fruits and veg are labeled 5th and as flavoring. As you can see above there are
only 500MG of fruits and veggies or .5 G. That means for every 3g of sugar your
kid is only getting .5 of the "good stuff". At least on the Starburst label you
get fruit juice listed 3rd in the ingredient list. The fruit and veggies make
up so little of the chews that it doesn't even register as a daily value on the
label. When I asked an sales person for It Works about the ingredients they
still said they feel better about giving this to their child over an APPLE!!!
AN APPLE! I can't. I can't even.
I have always had problems with food and weight. A struggle I don't want my child to
have to go through. When I see people advertise healthy food for
children and it's false it makes me shake with anger because another generation
of people will be raised with a false sense of what is healthy. For that
reason, I cannot be passive and just look the other way while you hock your goods.
Thanks for letting me rant. I must go and give my child an apple now. Or better yet.
Some Starbursts.
5 comments:
Thanks!! Wow! That is frustrating. I choose God's fruits over man made any day!!🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍌🍉🍇🍓🍈🍒🍑🍍
So I'm a little confused. I don't see MSG on the list. Also, fruit naturally has more carbs (aka energy) than candy, so that makes sense to me. And fruit has sugar; fructose, not corn syrup, so again, the sugar content adds up. But what I'm confused about is how you got that fruit isn't until the fifth ingredient. There's like a paragraph of fruit and veggies listed, then it says "other ingredients". It also says 3 g of a prebiotic dietary fiber blend, which I'm fairly certain is not in a starburst candy. I believe there's an average of about 13 g of sugar in an apple, and an equal amount of fiber.
I'm seeing something that looks like a pretty healthy choice to me.
Thanks for sharing!
This is why one should always do their own research, rather than take things at face value!!
Maltodextrin is another name for MSG. The 2 sugars used do not digest the same way fructose does in the body. I agree that starbursts do not have fiber but if these fruit chews only benefit is a measly 3 g of fiber they are hardly constitute a healthier option to real foods. The other claim is that it's like eating 20 cartons of blueberries but that is only because of the added pterostilbene. For it to be effective you have to ingest at least 11mg. There are only 2g in the serving so that isn't helpful either. I don't get how It Works or their consultants are able to tout these claims.
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