Over the weekend I really fancied some ice cream, so off to the supermarket I went. I found Skinny Cow vanilla ice cream sandwich made by Nestle®.
However, upon further review of the back of the label (there was a convenient fold covering up all of the unflattering nutrition information) this small ice cream sandwich is STUFFED with chemicals I call obesity additives.
Here are the whopping 33 ingredients and my comments after some of them:
- Skim milk
- Bleached wheat flour (acts like sugar in the body)
- Sugar (the main cause of belly fat)
- Caramel color (the same junk they color soft drinks with)
- Dextrose (sugar)
- Palm oil
- Corn flour (most likely from genentically modified [GMO] corn)
- High fructose corn syrup (causes extreme cravings; most likely GMO)
- Corn syrup (ditto)
- Baking soda
- Modified corn starch (most likely GMO)
- Mono and diglycerides
- Soy lecithin
- Cocoa
- Sugar (again)
- Corn syrup (again)
- Polydextrose (sugar)
- Whey protein
- Cream
- Calcium carbonate
- Inulin
- Natural flavor (this is a joke considering all the unnatural flavors)
- Propylene glycol monostearate (ugh… more on this below)
- Microcrystalline cellulose
- Sodium carboxymethylcellulose (that’s a mouthful)
- Guar gum
- Monoglycerides
- Sorbitol (a sugar alcohol)
- Carob bean gum
- Citric acid
- Vitamin A palmitate
- Carrageenan (a seaweed extract)
- Salt
So as you can see, this may be a low fat ice cream sandwich, but don’t think for a second that this “Skinny Cow” is a healthy food choice that’s going to help you or your family lose flab. This is a nutrient dead “Frankenfood.” By this I mean that it’s not even a real food, it’s just a chemically-altered food-like substance.
They should call it “dead meat” instead of “skinny cow”. Really, really, bad.
And it gets worse: Propylene Glycol Monostearate (ingredient #23) is found…
- As a working fluid in hydraulic presses
- As a coolant in liquid cooling systems
- To regulate humidity in a cigar humidor
- As the killing and preserving agent in pitfall traps, usually used to capture ground beetles
- As an additive to pipe tobacco to prevent dehydration
- To treat livestock ketosis
- As the main ingredient in deodorant sticks
- As a solvent used in mixing photographic chemicals, such as film developers
- As an ingredient in the production of paintballs
The College of Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State says this about propylene glycol monostearate: “Slightly more toxic than propylene glycol in animals, and in large doses produces central nervous system depression and kidney injury.”
Yumbo!
