Having a mad day yesterday, and with an allocation of approximately 30 seconds for lunch, I did as I’ve done many times before and grabbed a Snickers bar (on the ground that since it contains peanuts, it contains a marginally larger amount of nutrition than a Mars bar).
But on reading the ingredient list, I’ve made a resolution, not to do this again.
Ingredients: sugar, peanuts, glucose syrup, vegetable fat, skimmed milk powder….
It says elsewhere 24% of 27% is peanuts. So add the sugar and glucose syrup, it must be something over 60% sugars (adding glucose and “sugar”), some 20% vegetable fat.
Yes there is some “chocolate” in there somewhere – cocoa butter and cocoa milk are listed after the skim milk powder.
So I bought some bars in the health store and am going to try to always carry one; of course this takes a special effort, since Snickers bars are everywhere, and health food stores aren’t.
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