Hidden ingredients, love them. "But I thought all ingredients had to be declared?" - Actually... no, they don't. I recently bought a loaf of brioche (I have a soft spot for it, can't help it), looking on the back for ingredients, there wasn't anything out of the ordinary until I read the allergy advice. Milk, gluten, wheat, egg, the usual suspects, but then the curveball, Soya. Nowhere on the ingredient listing did it mention anything to do with Soya, so how come it's there as an allergy warning? It's hidden inside other ingredients of course!
Also, people have become fixated on calories as part of balancing diets and such. The great holy number everyone goes by. Need 2000 of them to stay healthy, doesn't matter that 1500 are from sugar and 500 fat, I'm getting my 2000 a day! Protein? Bah, only body builders need that! - All 3; fat, carb and protein are calories. The problem is that the declared values on the back of labels are 'best case' and not strictly accurate to the batch.
And this 2000 a day thing needs to stop too. It's a guideline based on activity. Here's something interesting... back in the good old medieval times of hard labour, plowing fields manually, etc. A lot of people were malnourished - on a staggering diet of 5000 calories or more (good old beer and grains).
So, new system; if you're getting fat - eat less or work more... or both! Problem solved...
Damn-it, ranting again...
