{"id":1932,"date":"2007-02-24T10:42:40","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T10:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2007-02-24T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T10:42:40","slug":"the-snickers-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1932","title":{"rendered":"The Snickers lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a mad day yesterday, and with an allocation of approximately 30 seconds for lunch, I did as I&#8217;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).<\/p>\n<p>But on reading the ingredient list, I&#8217;ve made a resolution, not to do this again.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients: sugar, peanuts, glucose syrup, vegetable fat, skimmed milk powder&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;sugar&#8221;), some 20% vegetable fat.<\/p>\n<p>Yes there is some &#8220;chocolate&#8221; in there somewhere &#8211; cocoa butter and cocoa milk are listed after the skim milk powder.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a mad day yesterday, and with an allocation of approximately 30 seconds for lunch, I did as I&#8217;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&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}