They should mark packages, pre diabetics beware. I was down at the local market the other day wondering if they had anything new to brighten my day. Sure enough there it was in a see-through package, a knock your eye out pastry with a great come either look in its eye
I looked around to see if I was still in the diet food section of the store, I had to be sure I hadn’t drifted subconsciously into the bakery area and was staring at an untouchable.
Nope. The overhead sign read diet foods and supplements – I was okay there. I pinched myself t be sure, because I knew I had struck gold. I tore open the lid, removed the pastry and took a bite, how sweet it was.
Label, what label, do these things have labels? Ignorance is a bliss. When I finally did think of the label I was greatly relief to find there was an acceptable level of protein and fat in the product. That should have been reassuring enough to finish it off, right? However, reluctantly I did nag myself into reviewing the carbs. Only 70 calories, where are the other zeros?
Right away, I wanted to find out how the bakery did it. How did they manage such a delicious, and even generous treat with such a trivial calorie penalty for eating it. The brand was not national, but there was a phone number, so I called it.
The young voice that answered the phone sounded like someone’s daughter, she had such a youthful voice. She was the wife of the baker, they were two years old and doing great with the product that I was investigating.
After she refused to divulge the formula I ask her what laboratory method the bakery used to determine calorie content. She said the Food and Drug agency told her they required a label divulging the contents but did not specify which method the bakery use. I asked her again for the method – she said she looked it up in a book. Her method was to make a guess.
By all safety standards, this product was ready to be consumed, and likely will be by all who choose to believe anything that’s in print.
This is a real personal story. Large food corporations use outside laboratories for food analysis. Regional and smaller companies get along with less. The point: when it come to diabetes and even pre diabetes, the stomach can easily blindfold the eye.
There out there, all the easy ways for a diabetic and pre diabetic to screw up without a diabetic meal plan #1
