Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Kellog's Pop Tarts make a yummy pre-run snack but I always feel a bit guilty feeding my body these things with all the junk in them. Well, my guilt-ridden days are over (with regard to Pop Tarts, anyway) because I've found Nature's Path Toaster Pastries.

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Compare the ingredients in Toaster Pastries . . .

Organic wheat flour, organic evaporated cane juice, organic powdered evaporated cane juice, organic palm oil, organic apples, organic whole wheat flour, organic corn starch, organic vital wheat gluten, organic dextrose, organic blueberries, organic rice starch, organic blueberry flavor, sea salt, leavenings (baking soda, cream of tartar), rice bran extract, organic honey, organic molasses, citric acid, algin, sodium citrate, monocalcium phosphate, whey protein isolate, natural food color (vegetable juice extract), organic vanilla flavor, organic butter flavor.

. . . with those in Kellog's Pop Tarts . . . (emphasis added)

Enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacinamide, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin B1], riboflavin [vitamin B2], folic acid), corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, vegetable oil (canola, cottonseed, palm, palm kernel, soybean, partially hydrogenated soybean and/or cottonseed, hydrogenated cottonseed oil, TBHQ for freshness), sugar, cracker meal, contains two percent or less of wheat starch, salt, dried blueberries, dried apples, dried grapes, cornstarch, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate), modified wheat starch, citric acid, milled corn, gelatin, natural and artificial flavor, soy lecithin, modified corn starch, xanthan gum, caramel color, red #40, calcium phosphate, niacinamide, reduced iron, color added, blue #1, blue #2, vitamin A palmitate, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), riboflavin (vitamin B2), thiamin hydrochloride (vitamin B1), folic acid, turmeric color. 

So enjoy and leave the guilt behind.