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Deceiving Food Labels

Thursday, February 12, 2009

I was quite happy to find that NurtiSoy's Reduced Sugar Soy Milk had only 17.0g of carbohydrate. But I overlooked the label and found that one packet of that soya milk had 34g of carbohydrates!!! I would have chosen something else if the label didn't deceive me. You see, to make the amount of carbohydrate and sugar appear less, they manipulated the nutritional information to be for one serving when whatever was in the drink had 2 servings. In this case, they made it look like that carton had about the same amount of carbohydrates as milk when in fact it had twice the amount.

Grr. It sent my blood sugars soaring to a whopping 14.1. I haven't had such a high number in a while. And I thought that I finally found an alternative drink. Next time, I'm sticking to the traditional soya bean and asking the aunty to not add the sugary water. I knew it was too good to be true. Hmph. I'm so utterly disappointed.

Rachel wrote in the pages of her life at 4:03 PM

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