That is a direct excerpt from Wendys dot com. Why am I talking about Wendys? I'll tell you why.
I'm going to have a baby in a month or so and I was driving home this afternoon when she started kicking me that she and I needed food - NOW. it was more like. "get a baked potato for us now or I will bust out of you like the predator and get it myself." So I headed to Wendys to get a tato that was already made for me to avoid a predator induced death by my unborn child. I don't know how many choices one gets at wendys but for sure I know you can get a bacon and cheese, broccoli and cheese or a sour cream and chive potato. The two cheese options come with oozey nachos cheese, not real type cheese. So I opt for the chive and sour cream baked potato - to me that's got to be the best choice on the menu. I asked for real shredded cheese on it and got ready to chow it down.
I never use the butter they give you because I know its not real butter. Almost all the ingredients on the label mention the word hydrogenated which is code for, "this is trans fat". So I avoid it. I looked at the sour cream this time though.. I noticed the third out of many ingredients was corn starch. THAT threw me as crazy. why is there corn in my sour cream? there is pretty much no reason for that. and the ingredients list went on and on. so I didn't use it either. It did spawn this blog however. The chives I assumed were real. But what about the cheese and what about the potato? Now I had to find out. So I think I'll try.
The potato, for now - I found most happily to be not genetically modified (whew!) Gold star for that one and I would have lost money if I'd bet on that. Good to do your own research. Because GM potatoes have been proven to cause tumors and cancer in the lab rats that ate them. and then the rats died. pretty mean, right?
anyway! on to the rest--
Quality fresh food and real ingredients. - Thats what they proclaim. Obviously I know wendys is a fast food restaurant but touting that type of talk *fresh* food, *real* ingredients. means real food then. okay. So their butter is not butter but a menagerie of hydrogenated oils. and their sour cream has modified corn starch (GMO), artificial flavor, preservatives and synthetic citric acid in it(also most often made with GMO ingredients).
none of those things should be in what we know as butter and sour cream. Wendys is already punching themselves in the face as far as I'm concerned.
check it out -
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I know what your thinking. "I'm just a city girl/boy and don't know what butter or sour cream is made of" don't worry little ladies / gents. I'll tell you: Butter is made from the cream of whole milk and sour cream is made from the cream of whole milk and a culture - much like something you'd find in a yogurt. That means butter has one ingredient ( sometimes two if salt is added which is okay) and real sour cream has two ingredients.
now check out the ingredients that wendys puts its name on. The same people that state that they provide the best quality food and real ingredients - wouldn't that just be butter and sour cream? and not the crap that's shown above? Yeah something doesn't seem quite right about all that. If they cant even provide quality butter or sour cream. Where do you think they get the potatoes from? Where do you think the meat is from? I bet its really high quality. Or not. Trans fat - unlike butters saturated fat does not occur in nature. It is created by men in laboratories. The major danger of Trans fat is that it double times our cholesterol because they raise the bad cholesterol and lower the good cholesterol. This leaves us in a pretty bad place - we will still burn off trans fat. IF we're active enough and consume a small enough amount. But it could do serious damage to our bodies in no time wreaking havoc on our cardiovascular systems. The FDA has deemed trans fat pretty much evil which is great but here's a little known fact - there's still tons of it in our food system. This fake butter from wendys is a prime example. It says zero trans fat per serving. That means its just got to have less than half a gram per serving. So its still Trans fat and it can still negatively affect your health. Keep in mind everyone does this and If you aren't watchful you could easily consume plenty of trans fat at every meal without really knowing it. You wonder why you can't get your cholesterol in check or your weight down. you've been eating healthy. Well look at what I tried to do. have a baked potato. not fries, not a burger, a baked potato! and I'm here to tell you this food isn't really food. Its just crap created to fool us. We spend lots of money on it and its absolutely ridiculous. We need to be our own watchdogs.
Break it down.
whats in real cheese? MILK, and rennet (enzyme found in a baby cows tummy) *aww* and salt.
whats in my wendys baked potato cheese? - Cultured Pasteurized Milk, Salt, Enzymes, Artificial Color,
Potato Starch and Powdered Cellulose (wood pulp, a very cheap filler) (to prevent caking), Natamycin (natural mold
inhibitor). CONTAINS: MILK.
yeah. yummy right?
then we've got the what should be in butter. just cream and salt. wendys butter contains - Liquid and Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil (trans fat), Water, Salt,Hydrogenated Soybean Oil(trans fat), Vegetable Mono & Diglycerides, Pectin and Sodium Alginate, Artifcial Flavors and Citric acid (gmo).
Not even any milk or cream or anything in there. Wow Wendys that's about as real and quality ingredients as you can get. I would think real cheese, butter and sour cream would be an improvement on the real food front.
Don't believe this real food nonsense wendys and gosh knows who else is trying to make you believe. Open your eyes a little wider. What you eat determines how you live. The quality of life is directly tied to your diet and food intake. Don't believe me? Change how you eat and just see how your life changes. That's right people - I'm asking you to actually give a shit about yourselves. Aren't you worth it?
Fight the system.
love Josie
