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Note - it said 'Energy Bars'. Here are the ingredients for the first Tesco branded energy bar I clicked on (Tesco is the UKs largest food retailer). " literal
by Angostura 7y ago
Note - it said 'Energy Bars'.
Here are the ingredients for the first Tesco branded energy bar I clicked on (Tesco is the UKs largest food retailer).
" literally just a bunch of grain sticking together" is perhaps not typical.
INGREDIENTS: Milk Chocolate Coating with Sweetener (25%)[Sweetener (Maltitol Syrup)
, Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Mass, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Vanilla Extract], Milk Proteins, Hydrolysed Beef Protein, Caramel layer with fibre (11%)[Polydextrose, Condensed Milk, Cocoa Butter, Humectant (Sorbitol Syrup), Emulsifier (Mono- and Di-Glycerides of Fatty Acids), Flavouring, Salt, Colour (Plain Caramel)], Humectant (Glycerol), Whey Protein Concentrate (Milk), Peanut (6%), Water, Coconut Oil, Peanut Paste (1.5%), Tripotassium Citrate, Tricalcium Citrate, Magnesium Hydroxide, Flavouring, Colour (Plain Caramel), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Vitamin C, Ferric Diphosphate, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Zinc Oxide, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Folic Acid, Biotin.
- nsxwolf 7y agoWhich of those ingredients are bad, and why?
- foobar1962 7y agoApart from the added water, every ingredient is a processed extract. Condensed milk, whey powder, etc. It's a list of industrially produced ingredients.
- freddie_mercury 7y agoWhy are changing from "processed" to "bad"? Are you claiming that none of those things are processed? Because that's what the OP was about, not good or bad.
- balfirevic 7y agoYou are not wrong, but it's worth noting that this HN submission would probably not even exist if processed didn't imply bad in many people's minds.
- Angostura 7y agoI don't think I said it was bad. I was reacting to a comment suggesting that including energy bars as high processed was erroneous.