‘Healthy’ snacks… 🤔

So todays post has come about after recent chats with a few of my clients. Our perceptions of what is ‘healthy’ and therefore equated to being low calorie in many cases is heavily influenced by marketing and social media. Often what we expect to be the healthy or low calorie option isn’t actually as low as we think.

This particular comparison is an interesting one. Both these snacks (banana bread and a flapjack) have been described to me as a ‘healthy’ or low calorie option when grabbing a sweet treat at a cafe. Now some of those people have said they would choose the banana bread as the only other option was a flapjack which was ‘bad’ and others have said the opposite. In reality as you can see there’s really not much in it. Both these snacks are close to 350 cals, both are high fat and sugar and both contain a variety of micronutrients. So both of these are actually a hefty snack and should both be treated as such. They’re essentially just the same as a small slice of cake. There’s nothing wrong with that at all but it’s just worth remembering when choosing to have them.

In some cases other choices may even be fewer calories so no matter how ‘sure’ you are about which option you think is lower in calories it’s always worth checking (assuming weight loss / controlling calorie intake is your goal of course). As I always say – knowledge is power so being aware of the calorie content of things, and also of our own perceptions of the things we consume is always a good thing. Make an educated choice!
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