Cronut craze

It's the new craze in western countries, this sinful dessert which is a combination of a doughnut and croissant. It's deep fried like a doughnut but the ring shaped dough also has layers. And layers mean more fat which is placed between the layers! These are medium sized cronuts from Theos, a bakery in South Mumbai. Must be at least 350 calories each although one cannot be sure how much fat is actually used inbetween the layers. A plain doughnut is usually around 200 calories for a medium sized one.

A cronut is one of the worst high calories culprits. Pure junk. While sugar, white flour in abundance plus far too much fat. Mostly refined oil used for frying. Theos says they use butter for the dough not margarine, but most bakeries used margarine in their bakery products and margarine contains the dangerous transfats. It's a hydrogenated fat and bakery products found in supermarkets in India all contain this. Causes the arteries to clog. Best make your favorites at home, using butter.

A close up of a cronut. Layers lined with fat and glazed with sugar and chocolate cream on top.

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Coke Calories

400 ml of coke is 170kcal, as it says so clearly on the pack, on the top left side of the label, just above the brand name Coca Cola. This contains 44 gms of sugar which = 10 teaspoons of sugar. All the best to those who drink this poison! All bottled drinks should carry a calorie label.

Not surprising considering that so much of it is just sugar. But wait, the main ingredient is carbonated water and then comes the sugar. And naturally to balance out all this acidic mix, they need an acidity regulator which is the third ingredient. And then the natural colours and flavous. What one can be sure of is that there is nothing natural about this drink. Alcohol is more natural. Banning coke is a better idea than banning alcohol.

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Muesli Nutrition Comparison and misleading labelling

Which Muesli product is the most nutritious and which breakfast brand of Muesli has the least calorific value? What does the nutrition information tell us? Muesli by itself is a high calorie food because of the nut and sugar content. 1 small katori is about 60 grams of muesli (half a cup) and this can contain about 180-200 calories.

Bagrry's No Added Sugar Crunchy Muesli, if compared to another Bagrry's Muesli product with added sugar, should logically contain fewer calories, right? Otherwise why advertise it as "No Added Sugar" on the food label? The calorific difference is just 1 calorie as seen in the nutrition information! The No Added Sugar Muesli is 119 cals for 30 grams and 398 cals for 100 grams, even though this high calorie muesli has no nuts, just rolled oats and  bran, wheat flakes and bran, and apple juice concentrates. Where are the calories coming from then? This makes one doubt the nutritive value of Muesli as a breakfast food.

The other Crunchy Muesli from Bagrry's has the same ingredients but added sugar, honey and raisins, corn flakes, and also almonds and yet it is 120 cals for 30 grams and 399 cals for 100 grams! Just one calorie more than the No Sugar and no nuts variety? Something seriously wrong here. Misleading and false claims by Bagrry's one would think.

Express Foods' Harvest Crunch has similar ingredients like nuts and honey, and it is 123 cals for 30 grams, just slightly over the Bagrry's nut mixture. However this is a very poor quality product. I have bought it several months before the expiry date but it still emanates a stale stink. Probably due to inferior quality ingredients. Avoid this one if you can.

Interestingly, a muesli mixture of dried nuts and fruits (the Indian brands referred to here have a very small quantity of nuts and hardly any dried fruit) from a developed country is just 118 for 30 grams. This too with a far larger number of nuts! And muesli without nuts and fruits from a developed country is 108 calories for 30 grams, with sugar included! And Sainsburry's no added sugar muesli with nuts is only about 106 cals for 30 grams.

Our Indian brands skimp on the nuts, but put a high calorie count on their labels, it would appear. Either the labels are wrong or we are consuming hidden calories. Even if we assume that developed countries like the UK and the USA are labelling their products wrong despite the strict labelling laws there, the minimal difference between two products of Baggry's (one with sugar, another without) raises suspicions.

The reason I have not mentioned Kelloggs here is that I cannot eat their muesli and never buy it. I hate those little fruity brightly coloured fake food that they put in their muesli. Also I think their value for money equation is very poor. I am not at all satisfied with the quality, and I consider Kelloggs worse that Harvest Crunch and Bagrry's. Unfortunately their distribution might ensures that they sell their products!

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Pastries Croissants and cheesecake

These are images of pastries of different types. Chocolate and cream and also buns and croissant type pastries. This photo was shot at a breakfast buffet at a five star hotel.

More pastries, cup cakes, and chocolate topped sweet pastries. Also plain buns and cream filled pastries. Again, a picture from a breakfast buffet at a five star hotel.

This is a photograph of rich pastries of different types, with chocolate, coffee, vanilla and pinapple cream. Some of these thick cake slices have walnuts and some are cream-filled.

Cheesecakes of  blueberry, strawberry, caramel and also oreo cheesecakes.

Here are flaky croissant type pastries with a ham filling.

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Biscuit packs photos

Photos of biscuits packs. These biscuits are of various kinds and from different companies. The first photograph is of some health biscuits like Britannia NutriChoice 5 grain biscuits, Sunfeats Marie Light, Britannia Hi Fibre Digestive and Horlicks biscuits. The packaging and colours used for the packs seems very similar. While white refined flour biscuits like Marie have a glycemic index- (showing how high foods get converted into energy) which could range from 75-90. This is unhealthy. Digestive biscuits have a better glycemic index, around mid-range. The longer the foods stay in the stomach the better it is because it prevents you from becoming hungry again soon!

This is a mix of different types of biscuit packs like Britannia Nutrichoice cream crackers and Pure Magic chocolate cream biscuits, Monaco salted biscuits, Parle G, Goodday and Hide & Seek biscuits. These multi-colored biscuits makes it difficult to distinguish between each! Monaco seems to have some unique packaging and the brand name stands out. Most biscuits have calories which can range from 35 (small, salted  biscuits) to about 80 or so. (sweet, large biscuits)

Another view of the packaging of the different brand of biscuits. All in all very colourful packaging, designed to attract children.

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Chocolate Donuts photograph and illustration

These are photographs of chocolate coated donuts. Donuts are a high calorie food. Calories in donuts can range from 200 Kcal to 400 Kcal, depending on whether they are cream filled and also their size. A plain medium sized donut (without a topping) can be about 200 calories while a cream-filled large donut can contain 400 calories. A 75 gm jam filled donut is around 250 calories.
Donuts are an unhealthy food. Junk Food. They have little fiber, but are high in sugar and salt. They are ofcourse high in fat content as they are deep fried. If cream filled, they contain even more fat. The flour used is white refined flour or  "maida."

Please avoid eating these doughtnuts because they are fried in Crisco oil which is in part a full hydrogenated fat. Apparently they have re-formulated the oil in 2004 to reduce the transfats and it is less than one gram of trans fat per serving (the law allows them to declare such low levels as zero transfat). These doughnuts  are from madaboutdonuts but other doughnuts too will be fried in vegetable shortening too, perhaps worse than Crisco. It was sad to see people thronging the shop for these doughnuts which will only will increase their chances of getting a heart attack. A recent study showed that this type of fat (reformulated to reduce trans fats) is not much better than the original full of trans fat version as it "increased volunteers' blood sugar by 20 percent while simultaneously lowering the body's HDL cholesterol."

This is the same picture as above but it has been worked on in Photoshop and turned into a colored illustration.

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Processed foods in India

It's amazing the number of processed foods you can find in an upper-middle class home today. With all the emphasis on fresh goods, most well-to-do people are addicted to processed foods like noodles, pasta, and fried snacks. Not to forget that our wheat flour and refined rice and oils are all processed too! So is salt. I guess we just need to ensure that we don't overdo with the consumption of processed foods which are full of chemicals or at their best, stripped of nutrients.

Many sauces are available in bottles today like Soya sauces, chilli sauces. Other processed foods like soups, iced tea mixes, drink mixes, and instant oats. Breaksfast cereals like muesli is also processed, although it may be healthy and wholesome. Many of these brands are foreign like Chings and Tabasco.

Various spices and available in bottles too from ground cinnamon and ginger to ground pepper and mixed herbs. Possibly these are pure ground herbs without additives, but one can never be sure.  Many foreign brands dominate Indian homes today like Heinz, Twinings and Nestle's Nescafe.

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Ingredients of instant noodles and instant soups (Junk food)

If we eat junk, lets admit to ourselves its junk. These are some of the actual ingredients of processed food. These are close-up photographs of the labels on instant noodles and instant ready-made soups of different brands like Nestle and Knorr.

The dal atta noodles call themselves healthy but just look at the ingredients. The word "atta" is almost immediately followed by "wheat flour" which means maida or white refined flour. Followed by edible vegetable oil, salt and guar gum. The garnishing of dal is more for show. The mixed spices, sugar, salt are too much for the serving size. The rest of the ingredients are: wheat (read refined flour or maida) noodle poweder, tamarind powder, acidifying agent, curry leaves, asafoetida or hing, dehydrated vegetables (which hardly have any food value) and then there are flavour enhancers. Sounds quite unhealthy to me.

Here are the ingredients of these noodles: wheat flour or  maida, refined vegetable oil, salts and antioxidants.

This is the pack of instant pasta which seems a little better as it claims to be made of semolina (rawa) and wheat fibre.

This is an instant soup powder made of maltodextin, salt, monosodium gulatamate (which is not present in all instant noodles), sugar, chicken fat, vegetable fat, hydrolysed vegetable protein, flavourants, thickener, yeast extract, herbs, acidifiers, spices, flavour enhances and antioxidant. Seems like poison to me!  If you have to use this stuff add your own vegetable puree to it.

These are vegetable atta noodles purportedly made with whole wheat. As in the earlier case the word "atta" is immediately followed by the word "wheat flour" which means white refined flour or maida. This one has artificial colour as well.

This packet of hot and sour vegetable soup says it has no synthetic colours, but it will have colors, though of the natural variety. However even these are chemicals as it is all processed. Ingredients: Corn flour, salt, dehydrated vegetables, dried glucose syrup, sugar, flavour enhancer, soyabean sauce condiments, acidity regulator, yeast extract and dehydrated garlic and vitamins. The only think I like about it is vitamins because at least they are vitamins. Whether the actual food has any vitamins we don't know. Most likely not. Best to add your own finely chopped vegetables.

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Processed Juices in India

Here are some images of fruit juices in tetrapacks. These juices are available in India. The brands seen in these pictures are Tropicana, Real Activ and Saint fruit juices, and these do not contain sugar. Prices of juices without added sugar range from Rs 65/- to Rs 85/. All these juices are reconstituted and are not fresh fruit juices.

Here are some pictures of juices in tetrapacks which are not sugar-free. Safal, Leh Berry and Real all have added sugar. The Real Activ brand has no sugar. All these are available in India and prices range from Rs 45/- to Rs 65/-

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Frozen Peas

These are photographs of frozen peas pouring out of a plastic pouch. The brand is not visible in any of the pictures.

The ice caking the peas is visible and so are the individual peas. The peas on the side of the pack are part of the image the manufacturer has used. Only the peas actually shown coming out of the packet are real peas.

The background in these pictures is black, although these are not cut-outs.

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High Calorie Food - Sausages and Fries

This image is that of sausages, fries/chips and a buttered bun served in an English pub. Eat this kind of food regularly and you are sure to put on weight! The portion is fairly large and the fat or lard is visible as a thick layer. Salt is liberally sprinkled on the fries. The sausages will be high in salt as well, as salt percentages are high in all processed foods. The greens are barely visible in the photograph. If one has to choose a fatty, unhealthy meal, this would surely be a good choice!

A small sausage is around a hundred calories but these look bigger, and are probably around 150-200 calories. A small portion of chips can range between 300-400 calories and the ones here must be at least 400. The bun? At least another 100 as it is liberally buttered. So this dish should be at least 1000 calories! Not to mention the salt! This type of food would make you more hungry for the next one, because you stomach has already stretched!

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Popcorn vending machine

This is an image of a commercial popcorn vending machine inside a multiplex cinema theatre in Mumbai, India. Cameras are not allowed in multiplexes, and this photograph was shot on a cell phone.

The picture came out better than I expected. It has a sort of ghostly look to it. The pile of popcorn is glowing, as if something wierd is cooking, not just popcorn!

Instant Noodles Stock Photo

This is an image of an open packet of instant noodles. The packet has been cut open and the photograph taken of both the packaging as well as the noodles inside. The brand is not immediately visible but on close scrutiny it can be deciphered.

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