Flora Cuisine

Firstly having Vernon Kay in an advert is a red card offense... and a definite reason to stay away. Secondly I have a problem with the heart motif under the flora brand name... misleading to say the least


Okay so as if regular flora was not bad enough they release a new crappy product. Supposedly this is meant to be healthier than olive oil, they claim this has 45% less saturated fat than olive oil. Firstly olive oil is not particularly high in saturated fat, secondly saturated fat is GOOD for you. (Go and read ‘Fat and Cholesterol are Good for You’ by Dr Ravnskov)


Flora claim this is a ‘deliciously healthy approach to everyday cooking’. I’ve not tried this, and I’m not keen to either so I can’t say hoe delicious this is.

Now on to the ingredients

Ingredients

Vegetable Oils (Sunflower Seed Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Linseed Oil),Water ,Salt (0.9%) ,Emulsifiers (Soy Bean Lecithin, Polysorbate 60) ,Preservative (Potassium Sorbate) ,Soy Protein ,Citric Acid ,Stabilisers (Guar Gum, Xanthan Gum) ,Flavourings ,Colour (Beta-Carotene) ,Vitamins A and D

Maybe flora should boast having more ingredients than olive oil too?

Okay so I’ll focus on the fats;

Sunflower seed oil is high in polyunsaturated fatty acids (about 63% I think) which can lower good cholesterol, and has minimal omega 3 = BAD CHOICE

Rape seed oil apparently can be heated ... but is Floras rape seed oil cold pressed?.. dosen’t say so on the packet so this is probably the man made bleach deodorised version

Linseed oil supposedly high in omega 3, but is unsuitable for cooking due to oxidisation.. so no Unilever this product is not suitable for frying roasting and baking !

Stick to butter or coconut oil :)

Sweet Charity Smoothie

Giving to charity is always a nice thing to do so I'm not knocking Tesco for supporting diabetes uk, but the product used to support a diabetes charity is loaded with sugar... this is silliness

This one 250ml bottle has 33g sugar... on the plus side there isn't any added sugar on the ingredients list :) and theres almost 2g fibre, which is better than none for this type of product. But to be honest I'd rather get 145 calories from some where else.

I was confused my the ingredients list as the amounts do not add up to 100%

Apple Juice (39%),Banana Purée ,Rhubarb Juice (17%) ,Aronia Juice (1.5%) ,Vanilla Extract (0.09%)

Ambrosia Devon Dream

As a LCHFer I love a bit of cream, particularly double cream... yum. So when I saw an advert for Ambrosia Devon Dream I though YES! This was partly because I had misread Devon Dream as Devon Cream... This got me thinking, why was it called Dream and not Cream. I know that cream substitute Elmlea just describes itself as double or single without the word cream. This worried me, was Ambrosia Double Dream just another whipped up vegetable fat? The short answer is yes, kind of :(  sad I know.

Here are the ingredients
Skimmed Milk,Buttermilk ,Sugar ,Modified Starch ,Vegetable Oil ,Whey ,Natural Flavouring ,Colours (Curcumin, Annatto) ,Total Milk Content: 75%


Yuk Sugar, Modified Starch, Vegetable Oil... no thanks