![]() There’s no reason breakfast can’t be both healthy and delicious, but serving up sugar, modified vegetable oils and processed chocolate in the morning just isn’t the way to go.įive reasons Nutella should be banned from your breakfast table: 1. Two tablespoons of Nutella contain 21 grams of sugar, the equivalent of 5 teaspoons of sugar. And don’t even get me started on that amount of sugar. It is one of the more damaging types of fats we can consume. Modified palm oil, however, is far from quality. In addition, the spread contains 15mg of sodium and just two sad little grams of protein per serving. Now given that I am a huge advocate of fat fuelling your morning, the fat content in here wouldn’t be a problem if it were from a quality source. 99 calories from 11 grams of fat (3.5g of which are saturated).A two-tablespoon (37 gram) serving of Nutella contains 200 calories including: Sugar, modified palm oil, hazelnuts, cocoa, skimmed milk powder, whey powder, lecithin, and vanillinĪt the time of this writing, Nutella contains 70% saturated fat and processed sugar by weight. What exactly these changes were are unclear. The settlement also required Ferrero to make changes to Nutella’s labelling and marketing. They were sued for healthwashing! In April 2012, they paid $3 million to customers who were part of the claim. In the United States, Ferrero, maker of Nutella, was sued in a class action lawsuit for false advertising that led some to believe that Nutella carries nutritional and health benefits, being touted as ‘part of a nutritious breakfast’. Call a dessert a dessert and move on, or be sued! It’s not breakfast, it’s a dessert and a questionable one at that. This “hazelnut spread” that looks suspiciously like thick chocolate sauce (or a spreadable candy bar) is healthwashed to pieces as a healthy breakfast option for kids. High sugar intake first thing in the morning will spike blood sugar levels, resulting in a plummet mid morning and contribute to poor concentration, hyper activity and aggression. When a child’s breakfast is made up of Nutella spread over white bread, or thrown into a tortilla with a banana, he or she is priming the brain and body for a crash. Breakfasts such as these will in no way support the learning or optimal behaviour. It’s a shame because Nutella does such great work helping fund school lunch programs and bringing awareness to the number of kids going to school without breakfast, it’s just a shame that these breakfasts include Nutella. Actually, it shouldn’t be at snack time, lunchtime, after school or melted over your ice cream. ![]() My goal, however, is not to dictate what you should or shouldn’t be doing in any aspect of your life, but to offer you some guidance to help you make the best possible decisions to help you live an optimally healthy life.Īnd so with that in mind, I will offer you this: Nutella is nutritionally void and shouldn’t be at the breakfast table. Well, actually, I’m sure I have now and again. I have never been one to say to you ‘eat this, don’t eat that’. This post on Nutella has garnered a remakable amount of attention, mostly negative and mostly of the hate-mail-troll variety – so to all of you, welcome! And those of you who are actually looking for a reason to break this habit, I hope to be able to help.
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