It's just a shame it's impossible for everyone in Canada to just simply boycott eating store bought foods and live off of foods they can grow and farm themselves. Which at this point is the only way to avoid these kinds of BS for the most part.
15:00 Carnation Breakfast Essentials. The guy says: Basically this is 9.5 teaspoons of sugar with vitamins and minerals added for good measure. The lady says : This breakfast thing has 1/3 more sugar than the Coca-Cola. The Breakfast thing is 315 mL with 38 g of sugar. The Coca-Cola is 237 mL with 27 g of sugar. Why is it 237 mL? Because the USA uses fluid ounce as a measure. 237 mL = 8 USA fl oz. I don't know why they chose 315 mL for the breakfast thing. 10.65 USA fl oz is not a round number. The lady says : Why do you market this as a healthy drink when it has 38 g of sugar per bottle? Answer: The product provides... a good breakfast choice with energy, protein and other nutrients...for the often rushed and on-the-go consumer.". Everyone is a politician these days. This is the kind of no-answer answer that I expect from a politician. Get used to it. A lot of people around us are politicians.
I hate wonder bread but how is their label misleading? The label says "White bread with fibre". That's exactly what the product is. If they had claims something like "white bread with the nutrition of whole grain" then sure.
The sad thing is that there's a flour called White Whole Wheat flour that has about as much fiber as whole wheat bread, and there's companies making bread with white wheat. It tastes fantastic, near the flavor of white bread, and is better in some ways
Yes, there's a lie if ever there was one. Honesty: "Profit has been the driving force behind Kelloggs since 1906. We make our shareholders money in two ways: first, by getting everyone addicted to sugar by the time they are old enough to eat out of a bowl, and second, by driving down the prices we pay farmers for their grain. Recipe for amazing return on investment and stable growth year over year."
I wish I could get your show here in the states. I’ve watched almost 30 episodes on RU-vid so please keep them coming! I’m so tired of corporations taking advantage of people who don’t either have time to research their claims or just don’t know how to look into tings! You guys are doing great work! Thank you
How about: if its packaged and doesn't look like a real food that grows or walks/swims assume its bad for you. Wtf happened to apples and bananas for snacks instead of nutrigrain bars?
dmitryk53 people are addicted to sugars and want to feel good about eating it. Instead of eating a candy bar they'll eat the thing that they can pretend is healthy (or are convinced has something healthy in it that will make it worth eating)
It's a matter of convenience. Healthy food without preservatives or refrigeration can go bad very quickly. Very easy to just grab a bar snack or something similar and put it in your pocket or purse. Try that with an apple or banana. Bodybuilders get a bad reputation because of the drugs that they use to get big, but one thing that people should learn from them is that many of them know what foods to avoid. They eat a lot of healthy food.
Pedro Roman - THIS! Pedro is right, produce spoils boxed food can sit in a pantry caked in preservatives. Family's are busy and like to grab and go without running to the grocery store all time. Less housewives than 60 years ago to take the time to home cook, hence all these garbage, sodium packed frozen meals....
Healthy alternatives? Things that don't come in boxes. Beans, grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds. Are Americans and Canadians ignorant and illiterate? These marketplace documentaries lead me to believe so. In super-wealthy powerful countries that is inexcusable. They deserve all the junk they get, because they can't be bothered to buy real food.
Apples are my favorite snack. Golden delish apples or any apple of your choice can be a great, trusted, healthy snack. Always wash them correctly first.
@@drobles394 I'm hearing about washing apples with warm water or other method (washing or soaking in water with some vinegar) to remove the wax coating. What do you do? Personally, I haven't eaten apples for quite some time.
Try being that busy mom who has a lot of incentive not to dedicate even a minute to figuring out the label, and I think you will not be so hasty to throw such sharp stones. To be sure, I agree with you that the nonsense the companies blabber is not hard to see through, thanks to mandatory nutrition breakdown and ingredients list. But we do well to keep in mind that these marketing techniques are heavily invested, highly researched, well-researched, and thoroughly deliberated attempts to manipulate human psychology, so we should not be surprised that they work.
@Jumbomuffin13 You missed my entire point, and your point isn't even logical. "If you're so busy, you should just use your own time to learn to make your own stuff." No, that's why they want others to make it for them.
"Nutrition has been the driving force behind Kellogg's since its founding in 1906." You do know the guy who invented Kellogg corn flakes as a way to stop masturbation, right?
AJ: Once upon a time, they did do shows like this in the U.S. That was before Bill Clinton and the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which deregulated the media. Everything changed after that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
There is deception going on wherever they point their cameras. It is truly scary how we are always a moment away from being scammed. And sometimes we are being scammed without even realizing it. Be wary. Be very wary!
Health conscious parents :- we want healthy food items for our children. Also health conscious parents :- I give my children processed meat and sugar filled artificial fruit flavoured nutrition bars and whatnot for breakfast and lunch.
BiikStar 123 yes, but some have good fats and others have bad fats. and if something has bad fats or sugar, I don't know if it's too much or its not as bad.
Make your own pizza pockets from scratch. One day a week for making something from scratch and freezing it. We all live a busy, busy life, but if we can do one day, one product that will last a week, we're on a good start. When I was 15 years old, I was living in the country? I would can applesauce I would Can Peaches and beets Every week you name it I did it. I would Make homemade fruit leather in a blender. I put it on a cookie sheet and put it outsin the sun. I'm old now but I encourage the younger generation to do some Canning anning and to make your own homemade bread and learn how to do little Mini pizzas and learn how to do a lot of things that your grandparents did. My cousin, she's got a nice place. And she does the sameven in her older age . Try to teach your kids to do baking to do cooking to make homemade soup from scratch before they leave home. Years ago I remember talking to this seventeen year old Young lady and her mnever knew how to cook they ate always from the restaurants. And I thought she was joking. Her mother was sitting there and I asked her is this true. And mom said yes. So how healthy do you think this young girl is today.
I live in Europe so I have ActiMel not DanActive and I knoxw that those yoghurts are just junk 'cause in my country we have better yoghurts than Danone's ActiMel
After watching this, it makes me think that of all those times I saw the word 'extracts' on the ingredients lists, if those 'extracts' are just other words for more menacing ingredients
Been living with tenants and shared a house with a rented bedroom outside for 7 years, my food never got stolen in the fridge or in my cabinet. One reason was simple, they are all whole food so if you want to eat them you have to most likely clean them then shave them or prepare them. Then very traditionally cook them. So when I can eat them in my mouth that usually took one hour at the least, 3 hours at the most.
for reference, here are the sugar levels presented in this video in terms of peanut butter cookies (A multi-continental measure). If you used the sugar in those bars, you could make ~20 cookies If you used the sugar in that juice, you could make ~26 cookies If you used the sugar in that drink, you could make ~3 cookies I'll look into other foods in this video later, but that's what I got right now.
it’s pretty simple. The more a product labels itself “healthy” the worse it is. Period. Same with juice. The fruit they show on front, it usually has the least of in it.
I don't really think the pizza pockets one was all that bad, they weren't saying it was amazingly healthy they were just talking about how it was no longer filled with chemicals
Unpronounceable ingredients aren't inherently unhealthy. Everything we eat has some technical term that most people wouldn't know. There are a million things with completely regular names you wouldn't want to eat. What something is called has absolutely nothing to do with whether you should stick it in your mouth. As long as you didn't find it under the kitchen sink. ;)
Beckah Mataronas None of these are lousy! Some poor people slaved away finding which colours attract the most attention, what words appeal the most to consumers and how to put it all on the packaging!
LET'S BE HONEST HERE! With breads you CAN'T infuse them with much fiber / fibre, even if bakeries tried. The most fiber / fibre you can expect from ANY bread is roughly 10-15% of total weight for REAL WHOLE GRAIN DARK WHEAT, or 5g. of INSOLUBLE FIBER / FIBRE for each ~ 30 gm. slice. For oatmeal (don't know about the ground husks, but for the grains themselves) is ~ 3 g. of SOLUBLE FIBER / FIBRE per 30 g. slice or ~ 10%. If you want to find REAL FIBER / FIBRE, stick with the proven cold cereals (General Mills' Fiber / Fibre One with up to 55% INSOLUBLE FIBER / FIBRE from both wheat and corn and Kellogg's ORIGINAL All-Bran with 50% INSOLUBLE FIBER / FIBRE). And about Wonder's owner's, try their newer owners, Bimbo Bakeries, the US and Canadian arm of the Mexican conglomerate, North America's largest commercial bakery concern...
The consumer would be coming to the conclusion that fiber equates to other health benefits than the obvious. Fiber is not equivalent to whole bran with all its nutrients.
Beckah Mataronas I was about to say the same thing. There was nothing inherently fraudulent in it. And people know that when they’re eating white bread, they’re sacrificing nutrition for taste, otherwise they’d just buy some of that gnarly frozen Ezekiel bread.
@@xXMetalforever1994Xx If it's from a Farm, Field or Forest, it IS FOOD If it's from a Factory, you can eat it, they'll call it food, it may resemble "food" but it has been Fabricated to take the place of Food.
@@xXMetalforever1994Xx Assuming you don't burn your food or add too much salt/sugar or oil, it's hard to cook with raw ingredients something as bad as anything in this video aside from the prepackaged soup, and even then you might still end up better off because fresher and likely less preservative.
@@xXMetalforever1994Xx um no? I eat chicken that comes from my family's farm no preservatives, everything organic, brown nice that has nothing bad in it, and veggies that don't have sprays or GMOs. It's not that hard OR expensive
It's so frustrating to see that these companies don't answer the actual question and have buzzwords filled sentences when requested for comment. Canadians really need to pull up their socks when it comes to enforcing regulations.
These are things people should already know. ANYTHING packaged is not nutritious or good for you, no matter what the labels say. Companies lie all the time, thats how they get you to eat and drink this stuff. Moderation is key here and it's ALWAYS a better idea to prepare your own foods.
Why you can put sugar content of 7-day consumption of a product in one plate (Kellog), but Campell was criticized for not declaring the sodium in one full serve. You are using similar tactics to divert or attract attention. That journalism and making something out of nothing happened in other programs as well (e.g., the orange juice one). The Bread's label was perfectly fine as well: it pronounced that it is white bread.
My advice to people is buy whole ingredients. When I shop I buy base ingredients like flour, organic cornstarch, yeast, fresh veggies and fruits,. With all these ingredients you can make fresh dough which can be used for bread, French rolls, pizza and so on. Flour can be used to make fresh pancakes and I use Stevia to sweeten my foods so no sugar in my diet but only from fruits. I have kitchen equipment like the Bosch mixer to help make 5 pounds of dough which I use to make fresh bread and my bread has whole grains because I put them there. The more people go fresh cooking the healthier you become.
the only problem i have with our labels is that they don't mention "added" sugars. I know the US labels are going to be changing soon to show that... but for something like fruit juices, you don't know what sugars are due to the fruit content versus added sugar content
Penalties for this must be more than fines. Automatic jail sentences for all corporate executives, business owners, and voting share holders must be mandatory for every offense. Also confiscation of corporate assets should be a judicial option along with the stripping of personal homes and bank accounts. The people that do this should also be forbidden to ever work in management again or to have ownership of any corporate shares ever again. By the way I eat only certified organic and am in great health at 65.
Great show, you need to sell the program to PBS. Americans have nothing such as this consumer program, while 90%+ of the products are sold on both sides of the border.
This show itself is often as misleading as the packages that it criticizes. Notice how they show a daily serving of the item and then when they want to impress you with how much sugar (or whatever) it represents, they show how much you get in a week. It's the same hype the marketers are giving us in reverse.
Blackmark52 When I look at buying food, I often aim to get a weeks supply or more of something or more since I can usually get a discount when I buy a bigger volume of food then when I buy just single servings. Often times, it is reasonable to have one of something, once a day, for a week or more (a personal example for me would be a cup of coffee with 2 sugar cubes in it.). With that in mind, seeing how much sugar you are taking in a week from an item of food doesn't seem all that deceptive to me if the product is something I could see myself reasonably consuming every day. It demonstrates that your body isn't getting a break from junk food.
You completely miss the point. If marketplace is going to criticize companies for giving factually correct, but misleading information. then they owe it to honest reporting to show strictly one to one comparisons. When they stoop to sensationalizing the issue, they are indulging in misleading marketing themselves.
It's been a while since I watched the video so I don't recall that part. Nonetheless, that's not true... It is true that fully intact flax seeds won't be digested if swallowed as such but if you get ground flax (or if you're particularly ambitious you can chew it yourself), you will get the nutrition from it.
@@Labtop215 When they show how much sugar it represents in one week, they should also show the number of bars that would need to be eaten to get that amount. Blackmark52 is not against the fact that they show the amount of sugar for one whole week, but against the fact that they show ONE bar right before (instead of 7) only to make it look even more dramatic.
These informative videos are amazing. They are interesting enough to keep me entertained and I enjoy the interviewing process that the anchors use. It's not too much information it's just right, plus I love how fashionable they are!
The show did the exact thing with the bag of sugar from the nutra-grain bars (showing seven days of sugar, not one) as mislabeling of the sizes. She should have used a bag with one serving of the sugar to be fair.
Not saying that granola bars are healthy, but it's interesting how they act like there's no sugar in fruit. Just looked it up: a serving of fresh mango has 18 grams of sugar. How much was in those bars again?
I read the ingredients of a product not the advertising. It helps me understand the flavor an nutrition of a product. For example I like 3 to 4 ingredient corn tortillas chips and I chose based on the oil it's fried with.
Perhaps Schools should teach a series of courses in 'How to understand what you are looking at and being told'. They should be compulsory but I imagine the 'powers that be' would oppose such a revolutionary approach. Who wants an informed and discerning population?
There are these delicious Campbells Everyday Gourmet boxed soups. But when I looked at the label on some of them, I noticed that they had shoveled 18 grams of sugar into each serving.
If your buying a product for the first time don't you read the nutrition and ingredient label!? I'm a busy mother of two and I manage to find time to read label especially if it's a product I never bought before. I agree companies shouldn't be allowed to be deceptive like this but I also think it's people being naive and lazy about what they throw in the cart. Haven't we learned u can't trust companies to have your best interest at heart!? They are there to make money. I too used to be believe certain brands were okay too but I believe if you're going to put it in your body you need to make the time to do a little research.
***** GMO's has been proven to be safe. There hasn't even been an argument in the scientific community about this issue for a while. "Currently there are near 2000 peer-reviewed reports in the scientific literature which document the general safety and nutritional wholesomeness of GM foods and feeds."
+deadmeh That`s a lie - Not many people invest the time to do actual research and many also still think GMO ( modifying genetic material with DNA from an unrelated species ) is the same as " Artificial Selection " ( Selecting positive traits from the same organism to enhance a particular trait ). You`re one of them. Do some actual research or provide a link of your claims that isn't sponsored by Monsanto or Bill Gates Foundation. Don't talk to me about the peer review process like its some GOD like authority. I suggest you actually do some research into " peer review issues " and educate yourself instead of having a faith based belief on BS propaganda. I bet you`re just going to come back and expect me to substantiate my position without verifying your own.
+Ontario Bushcraft I didn't think about it that way but upon reflection I think you have a point. Problem is that many GMO products are loose items in the fruit and veg sections therefore don't have labels. Then again Monsanto has been given an exemption from labelling anyway so it isn't really listed in the isles either. Even the label of organic doesn't mean GMO-free.
Ok people say that but it's false. I buy flour, sugar and oatmeal to make my own oatmeal cookies. They're wholesome, no preservatives added, tasty, and I buy the raw ingredients in the aisles. Home-made desserts are also part of a balanced diet. "Balanced" implies happiness!!!
I read labels cuz my son is allergic to things I can't have in my house. But it seems the healthiest things come right out of the ground and directly off the farm
+AG30 Squad because it comes with small print. usually sayi g that what they're telling you has not been evaluated by anyone so it probably does not work.
i love it when parents say, "i don't have a lot of time to be sure im collecting the best food possible for feeding my children." ......... um, like what could possibly take that much of your time?
Both reporters are WRONG when they analyze the ingredients in the Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Superfruit bars. They both claim that they (the bars) contain "just over 3 teaspoons of sugar per bar," and the nutrition expert pours a whole week's worth of sugar onto the plate of a parent. In fact, each bar contains 12g-13g of sugar PER BAR (yes, it's redundant). The label with ingredients information can be found at smartlabel.kelloggs.com/Product/Index/00038000359217, and shows specifically "Includes 12g added sugars" per serving! They are trying to debunk health claims found on labels, but seem to minimize the amount of sugar (12g) by reporting it as "3 teaspoons of sugar"! Each bar contains over HALF the recommended amount of added sugars for men and women per day (6 teaspoons for women, 9 teaspoons for men, with no info on how many for children) - that's EACH BAR. With so much added sugars and refined flour added to EACH BAR, can you imagine how much sugar a person consumes in a day? If these reporters want to clarify misleading information on labels, they should also clarify what 12g of added sugars represents!
Oh boo hoo! All you have to do is flip over the box and read the sugar content in these foods to know they're not healthy. We don't need a show (or more government oversight) to teach people how to figure this out !
Deceptive marketing is suppose to be illegal and a part of the unfair marketing laws.The problem is nobody enforces any laws and most often just trying to get a hold of any government office is nearly impossible,designed to make it tough for you as a consumer so they don't have to do anything at all.Tax payers money gone to waste.
I'm gonna have to disagree with the pizza pockets. Everything on this list was shown to be branded and headlined with claims of omega 3's, fiber, heart disease prevention, lowering cholesterol, etc. The only thing that the pizza pockets claimed was that now thyere made with real ingredients that you can pronounce, they never claimed them to be healthy and lifestyle changing. That's like If I have a farm, growing my own wheat for flour, milking my own cows for milk and butter, growing my own sugarcane for sugar, etc to bake a sweet cake. All my ingredients are wholesome and pronounceable, but that doesn't necessarily mean that what I make with them are healthy, just less damaging since it's free from ridiculous additives and false claims of being healthy.
It's hard to get a straight answer from any source, but i gave up grains years ago, and all the benefits you get from grain, you get more completely from other sources, nuts , seed, vegetables.
Half of these aren't even lousy labels. Especially the wonder bread. It just says "White bread with fiber" there's no mention of other nutritional value on the label. God bless everyone.
why would any one assume boxed food on the dry self is healthy? Fine to grab a few things because you're busy but most of your diet shouldn't be the high preserve foods
My lunches have always been decent whole wheat bread with butter and meat we cooked ourselves. All my life nothing of this is processed except for the bread along with an apple in a lunch box. Egg sandwiches, peanut butter and jam, salmon and tuna. Im 70 now and avoid ANY processed foods. We cook all our meals from scratch. NO bottled water and NO pop. We drink carbonated water from our Sodastream and add some organic fruit juice(small amount) for flavor. People tell me I do not look my age at all. I weigh in at less than 180lbs and hope to get to 155.
