Report finds that 'healthy' snacks are sugar-stuffed
A new report by the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) has found that some of Britain's so-called 'healthy' snack products are actually packed with excessive amounts of sugar. The main offenders have been named and shamed, including:
• Fruit Bowl Strawberry Fruit Flakes - 60 per cent sugar
• Kellogg's Special K 'Fruits of the Forest' breakfast bars - 39 per cent sugar
• Tesco Healthy Living forest fruit and raisin breakfast bars - 50 per cent sugar (two teaspoons of sugar per bar!)
Other culprits included Yeo Valley natural yoghurt, Walker's baked low-fat crisps and Kellogg's Winders. According to the study, a lot of these foods are actually unhealthier than indulgent Häagen Dazs chocolate ice cream containing only 20 per cent sugar.
Some of these options are advertised as low-fat snacks designed to help you lose weight, but health experts say that the excessive amounts of sugar in these products can actually make you put on weight, as well as giving you tooth decay and potentially fatal heart disease.
They claim that the food processing sector is too heavily reliant on sugar, demanding that those in top manufacturing food jobs take steps to address this problem.
Do you think Britain's food processors have a serious sugar problem? Are they misleading consumers by advertising snacks as 'healthy' and 'low-fat'? Feel free to leave your comments.
• Fruit Bowl Strawberry Fruit Flakes - 60 per cent sugar
• Kellogg's Special K 'Fruits of the Forest' breakfast bars - 39 per cent sugar
• Tesco Healthy Living forest fruit and raisin breakfast bars - 50 per cent sugar (two teaspoons of sugar per bar!)
Other culprits included Yeo Valley natural yoghurt, Walker's baked low-fat crisps and Kellogg's Winders. According to the study, a lot of these foods are actually unhealthier than indulgent Häagen Dazs chocolate ice cream containing only 20 per cent sugar.
Some of these options are advertised as low-fat snacks designed to help you lose weight, but health experts say that the excessive amounts of sugar in these products can actually make you put on weight, as well as giving you tooth decay and potentially fatal heart disease.
They claim that the food processing sector is too heavily reliant on sugar, demanding that those in top manufacturing food jobs take steps to address this problem.
Do you think Britain's food processors have a serious sugar problem? Are they misleading consumers by advertising snacks as 'healthy' and 'low-fat'? Feel free to leave your comments.
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