Guess Which Food Is Healthier (SHOCKING)

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Let’s compare the nutrition facts of Product A and Product B to see which food is healthier. Product A contains 29 grams of total fat, 4 grams of saturated fat, 17 grams of carbohydrates, and 1 gram of sugar.

Product B contains 8 grams of total fat, 1 gram of saturated fat, 16 grams of carbohydrates, and 0 grams of sugar. Based on these nutrition facts, which food is healthier?

Product A is an avocado, and Product B is Doritos! Doritos contain corn, vegetable oil, maltodextrin, monosodium glutamate, dextrose, and many other poor ingredients—yet you may have thought Product B was the healthier food.

You can't rely on nutritional facts alone to determine whether a food is healthy; you must look at the ingredients.

Food is “that which is eaten to sustain life, provide energy, and promote the growth and repair of tissues.” Ultra-processed foods do not align with this definition! I believe that of everything that causes disease and destroys your health, ultra-processed foods are the most significant factor.

If you want to know which food is healthy, you should ignore nutrition facts and go right to the ingredients. Here are 3 ingredients you’ll want to avoid:

1. Seed oils

2. All forms of sugar

3. Starches

3 Dangerous Ingredients to Avoid – Wallet Cutout Card: https://bit.ly/49Z5x0K

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0:00.0	I have a quiz for you today and I want to see which one of these do you think is healthier.
0:05.2	We're mainly only looking at the nutritional facts. So we have product A and product B.
0:10.3	On the left there's 29 grams of total fat. On the right there's 8 grams of total fat.
0:16.0	On the left there's 4 grams of saturated fat. On the right there's only one gram of saturated fat.
0:24.2	On the left there is 17 grams of carbohydrate.
0:28.4	On the right there's 16 grams of carbohydrate.
0:31.0	On the left there's one gram of sugar and on the right there's
0:35.2	zero grams of sugar. So based on that data, which one is healthier? Now you're
0:42.4	probably going to pick B, right? Well let's take a
0:44.7	look at what A is. A is avocados. What's B? Doritos. That's right, Doritos.
0:52.0	Tip number one, you cannot determine the health of a product by the nutritional facts.
0:59.0	You must look at the ingredients.
1:02.0	Let's take a look at these ingredients. The first one is
1:04.9	corn and then we have vegetable oil, corn, canola, and or sunflower oil and then we have
1:11.6	multodextrin and we have a bunch of other things and then
1:14.4	we have monosodium glutamate and then dextros and in a minute I'm going to
1:18.6	simplify this whole thing for you so really there's only three ingredients you have to
1:22.2	watch out for.
1:23.0	Everything else is a side note, but let's just do one more test.
1:28.6	Okay, we have label A and label B. On the left, we have zero grams of total fat. On the right we have
1:35.1	zero grams of total fat. Of course there's going to be no saturated fat on
1:38.7	either one of those. So now we're at the total carbohydrates. A is 25 grams of total carbohydrates. B is only 13 grams of total
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