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A few of my healthier favorites: Cauliflower Bites 4 Ways (https://www.facebook.com/officialgoodful/videos/1379543625449433/ https://www.facebook.com/officialg

by drozzz 9y ago

A few of my healthier favorites: Cauliflower Bites 4 Ways (https://www.facebook.com/officialgoodful/videos/1379543625449433/ https://www.facebook.com/officialgoodful/videos/137954362544...), Spaghetti Squash 4 Ways (https://www.facebook.com/buzzfeedtasty/videos/1769340553318586/ https://www.facebook.com/buzzfeedtasty/videos/17693405533185...), Tornado Zucchini (https://www.facebook.com/buzzfeedtasty/videos/1867017893550851/ https://www.facebook.com/buzzfeedtasty/videos/18670178935508...), Garlic-flavored zucchini chips (https://www.facebook.com/buzzfeedtastyjapan/videos/1672966079631008/ https://www.facebook.com/buzzfeedtastyjapan/videos/167296607...)

vanderZwan 9y ago
I guess that you mean that these recipes use vegetables as a base, which is more healthy than recipes for cookies or ice-cream. However, in all of them, there is still more fat, sugar and/or salt added than is healthy. Take the cauliflower one: it's basically cauliflower, but now grilled with oil and topped with sweet/fatty/salt flavouring to make it more palatable.
- Smaug123 9y ago
  Cauliflower has basically no nutritional value anyway. Minimal vitamins and minerals, no digestible carbs or protein or fat.
  - vanderZwan 9y ago
    Sure, but that is not relevant to the point of all the flavouring being of the cheap, unhealthy variety, is it? Unless you mean that in a "it's worse than that" way
    - Smaug123 9y ago
      Referring to cauliflower as "healthy" is dubious. It's healthy in the same sense that cotton is.
      - vanderZwan 9y ago
        Ah, yes, I get you now :) The "cotton" remark reminds me of the Cannibal Mouse episode of Mythbusters that will never be aired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziQWDnFSPt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziQWDnFSPt8
IkmoIkmo 9y ago
I'd urge anyone not to dedicate any significant fraction of their diet to these snacks. I mean come on, cauliflower with BBQ sauce? That's kind of the problem with all these recipes, you take just about any ingredient and either bake or fry it: it's crispy and chunky. Then you throw on flavoring with some kind of sugar+fat+salt based sauce, and you've got a yummy, crispy, chunky piece of food. I bet you could make an ingredient out of 50% paper and 50% something ridiculous taste good that way, but it's not healthy. Like take the BBQ Sauce cauliflower's ingredients. There's 115% your daily salt intake from the sauce alone. You get 375 calories from your BBQ sauce which is mostly sugar btw. You get 120 calories from your olive oil, and 140 calories from the cauliflower, assuming you eat it entirely. Then ontop of the 130% daily salt intake, the recipe says to add more salt to taste and put more BBQ sauce ontop after baking, which alone takes 30 minutes. It's ridiculous, you probably spend about 40 minutes making a recipe that's about 20% cauliflower and 80% (way too sugary - easily 2x daily amount - and salty) sauce. And that's assuming the entire cauliflower is used, in reality it's quite a bit worse. Now sure it's not the most unhealthy dish in the world, but there's nothing healthy about it either.

by drozzz 9y ago

vanderZwan 9y ago

I guess that you mean that these recipes use vegetables as a base, which is more healthy than recipes for cookies or ice-cream. However, in all of them, there is still more fat, sugar and/or salt added than is healthy. Take the cauliflower one: it's basically cauliflower, but now grilled with oil and topped with sweet/fatty/salt flavouring to make it more palatable.

Smaug123 9y ago
Cauliflower has basically no nutritional value anyway. Minimal vitamins and minerals, no digestible carbs or protein or fat.
- vanderZwan 9y ago
  Sure, but that is not relevant to the point of all the flavouring being of the cheap, unhealthy variety, is it? Unless you mean that in a "it's worse than that" way
  - Smaug123 9y ago
    Referring to cauliflower as "healthy" is dubious. It's healthy in the same sense that cotton is.
    - vanderZwan 9y ago
      Ah, yes, I get you now :) The "cotton" remark reminds me of the Cannibal Mouse episode of Mythbusters that will never be aired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziQWDnFSPt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziQWDnFSPt8

IkmoIkmo 9y ago

I'd urge anyone not to dedicate any significant fraction of their diet to these snacks. I mean come on, cauliflower with BBQ sauce? That's kind of the problem with all these recipes, you take just about any ingredient and either bake or fry it: it's crispy and chunky. Then you throw on flavoring with some kind of sugar+fat+salt based sauce, and you've got a yummy, crispy, chunky piece of food. I bet you could make an ingredient out of 50% paper and 50% something ridiculous taste good that way, but it's not healthy. Like take the BBQ Sauce cauliflower's ingredients. There's 115% your daily salt intake from the sauce alone. You get 375 calories from your BBQ sauce which is mostly sugar btw. You get 120 calories from your olive oil, and 140 calories from the cauliflower, assuming you eat it entirely. Then ontop of the 130% daily salt intake, the recipe says to add more salt to taste and put more BBQ sauce ontop after baking, which alone takes 30 minutes. It's ridiculous, you probably spend about 40 minutes making a recipe that's about 20% cauliflower and 80% (way too sugary - easily 2x daily amount - and salty) sauce. And that's assuming the entire cauliflower is used, in reality it's quite a bit worse. Now sure it's not the most unhealthy dish in the world, but there's nothing healthy about it either.