Monday, March 29, 2010

First off, for Mystery Food Theatre, the answer is... Nesquik!!!  Now, this week's, even without any hints, should be obvious.  It has 0 calories, 0 grams of fat, 0 milligrams of sodium, potassium, and cholesterol, 0 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of protein, and no vitamins or minerals.

Second off, I will be talking about a show: Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution.  Jamie goes around to different cities, stays there for a couple weeks, and tries to make the people there eat healthier. (This also means "no highly processed foods" to him.)  He goes to a school in a city that was found to be the unhealthiest city in the world by a government statistic, and they're having pizza for breakfast.  For lunch, they have pizza or chicken nuggets.  He asks them what they had for dinner, and they basically had either chicken nuggets or pizza.  When Jamie Oliver cooked chicken and the kids had a choice between pizza and chicken (which Jamie made from scratch with a store-bought chicken), they chose the pizza.  I'm not telling you how it ends to keep the suspense.  (You can watch it on their website somewhere at ABC.com.)

Third off, Bye!

Friday, March 19, 2010

Now, what you've all been waiting for: the late Mystery Food Theatre!

If you don't know what I'm talking about, check my earlier posts.  So, the answer is... General Mill's Kix! (As "Me" pointed out, it is a little low in fiber, but still, it's better than Lucky Charms.)  This chocolate milk making product has half a gram of fat (0 saturated), 14 grams of carbs (<1 fiber, 13 sugars), 60 calories, and <1 gram of protein in 2 tablespoons.  Leave a guess as a comment!

Everybody loves a good glass of chocolate milk!

Monday, March 1, 2010

The supercallifragillisticexpiallidocious post

Sorry, I just wanted to type that word.  So, today, for Mystery Food Theatre, instead of using an Eat This, Not That! book, today, I actually looked at the nutrition label on the product.  This time, it's a breakfast cereal, like before with Smart Start (not so smart).  By the way, last week's answer was Hardee's Monster Biscuit.  Anyway, this cereal has 110 calories, 210 milligrams of sodium, 3 grams of fiber, 3 grams of sugars, and is nearly fat-free.  Comment on this post guessing what it is!

Trans fatty acids, also called trans fats, are some of the worst kinds of fats.  Before being made into trans fats (they're produced artificially), 2 carbon atoms are double-bonded and certain groups of atoms are bonded on one side of the molecule.  After hydrogenation (which turns the fats into trans fats), one of the groups of atoms shifts to the other side of the molecule, changing the molecular structure slightly.  To see an example of these molecules, go to http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/pdf/fats&oils.pdf.  The images are on the second page.