![]() I will say, however, that while the different flavors have varying amounts of fat, the fruity flavors once again appear to be consistently lower than the chocolate, more dessert-like ones.Īt this point I started grasping for straws as the fruity flavors seemed to dash ahead of the pack, and I told Shanahan that, on their ingredients lists, these flavors also boast actual dried fruit - Strawberry contains dried strawberries, dried pears and dried apples - a potential nutritional boon. Shanahan also briefly mentions that fat could play a role in one tart being healthier than another, but when I tell her that they all get their fats from some combination of soybean oil and palm oil - soybean oil is high in polyunsaturated fat, which Shanahan says “ is increasingly understood to be unhealthy” - she again emphasizes that none of these flavors are good choices. ![]() So, at this point, while none of the flavors are good, the more dessert-leaning flavors are especially bad, because they have more sugar. The slightly more sugary exceptions should be obvious: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, for instance, boasts 17.5 grams per tart, and S’Mores delivers a whopping 19 grams. For example, a single Brown Sugar Cinnamon tart has 15 grams of sugar, whereas a single Strawberry one has 16 grams. Going by that, I dug through some flavors and found that the sugar levels are mostly uniform across the board, with just a few outliers. “The only variable would be the amount of sugar,” Shanahan says. Her immediate reaction was to explain that, in order to identify the healthiest of Pop-Tarts, I was essentially on a hunt for the least unhealthy, because none of the flavors provide any adequate nutrition whatsoever. Desperate to find out, I called Cate Shanahan, biochemist, past director of the Los Angeles Lakers PRO Nutrition program and author of the forthcoming dietary book, The Fatburn Fix. ![]() To that end, I wondered if any one Pop-Tart flavor can be that middle ground. I wonder, though, if we can find a middle ground? A place where we can maintain a semblance of good health, while still enjoying the comfort of sugar and artificial colors squished inside of a layer of frosted wheat a place where we can look forward to a bright future, but also live in the moment, reveling in the simple pleasures that we could use now more than ever. I see now that the world is truly struggling, and if a Pop-Tart and its detrimental, but delicious, ingredients make even a single day better, perhaps the pros outweigh the cons. Needless to say, times have been tough lately, and I find myself drifting further and further away from the person I was back then, when I declared that a life without Pop-Tarts was a life we should all strive for. May the odds be ever in your favour /AsTL42B2kt Congratulations to everyone that completed the second month of 2020, in total you’ve survived:
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