On 4/28/2012 3:39 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 28/04/2012 2:15 PM, Pennyaline wrote:
>
>>
>> Nobody thought it was "diet food," either. Nutella has been promoted as
>> a healthy alternative to peanut butter, butter and other sandwich
>> spreads for years and years, as well as a good breakfast food for kids.
>> The first two ingredients on its label are sugar and fat. It is per
>> serving comparable to sweetened breakfast cereals in terms of empty
>> calories (cereal companies still try to promote their products as
>> wholesome, too).
>
> In some cultures it is quite common to feed kids stuff like that. Dutch
> children are often given "chocolate ants" ... chocolate sprinkles on
> piece of buttered bread. Lots of other European kids get some sort of
> chocolate nut spread.


And that's fine, but is it half sugar/half fat and deceptively shilled
as healthful? I could mix peanut butter and chocolate into a spread at
home and have a more healthful product, with less fat and sugar and far
more protein than Nutella has.