What's in your food part, 7. Oreos

Yes, I used to eat Oreos. I used to do a lot of things, and I weighed 320 pounds. I don't eat things like these anymore, not because I didn't like them, but because I now understand that the addictive nature, the drive to manufacture a food-like product entails the use of questionable ingredients as well as the methods of every single facet of the manufacture of these things are done with absolutely no regard for the health of the consumers that buy them. So, no, I don't eat them anymore. 

I might try to make my own some day. But in reality, why? I don't need them. I've gotten used to not eating junk foods, no sweets, no meat, no processed anything. Yeah, and I weigh 235 now. That's something.

Oreos. Good memories or just plain bad horrific food?
 Probably a little of both. Most wouldn't say they are horrific, and they are a long long way from being in anyway nutritious. Definitely not as bad as some of the other food-like substances that I reviewed here a year ago or so, these are just naturally, well, nasty. Two, Double Stuf Oreos, are 120 calories. 7 grams of fat and 21 grams of carbohydrate. Mostly in the form of High Fructose Corn Syrup. Well, sugar is actually the first ingredient on the list. More sugar than flour in the cookies. No wonder they taste so addictive. I mean good. 
I suppose that here I could put in a link to that documentary about how Fructose is actually destroying our lives, 65 minutes of lengthy diagrams and charts of how the human body uses sugars, fructose and dextrose to run our systems. But realistically, most people that want that info already know it, the rest, probably lost by now and looking at photos of cats dressed in tuxes or some other such nonsense. 

So, sugar, bad. HFCS, extremely bad. (HFCS and Hg) There's the Mercury contamination thing plus we know the stuff is GMO and although we have no idea if genetically altering plants actually will cause damage to humans down the road; we do know that they drench the plants with glyphosate. Roundup. Now, a known carcinogen. Flour, kinda bad. The fact is, 95% of all wheat in America and many other countries as well, is drenched in glyposate as well. This use of the stuff is worse as it is done 8 to 10 days before harvest in order to kill the plants and make harvesting the grain easier on equipment and to give a slightly larger yield. Slightly. Glyphosate is bad when sprayed on GMO crops while in the early stages of growth. The stuff slowly breaks down. When sprayed just before harvest, it's all there baby. You get the full dose. 

So is that bad?

No one can tell you what to eat and what not to. It's up to you. You only get one body, in the long run, what you feed it, drives how it works down the road.

Ingredients

SUGAR, UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID), PALM AND/OR CANOLA OIL, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORNSTARCH, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), SALT, SOY LECITHIN, VANILLIN - AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CHOCOLATE.CONTAINS WHEAT, SOY.

Yep