False advertising

[Jazzy]

What is a food that is advertised as healthy but is actually really unhealthy?

 

[seasidemike]

It was found in a recent study that some weight watchers and other 'diet' food products actually contain more sugars than other foods not labelled as diet.

Then there are drinks that are placed in supermarkets in the section of pure juices when they are in fact classified as 'soft drinks'. So that the consumer assumes that the product is a healthy option when it is in fact not.

 

[~KAGE-008]

Some chewing gums. Trident is one.

 

[DrLeftover]

Smoothies and fruit juices are a new risk to health, US scientists warn
Scientists say potential damage from naturally occurring fructose in apparently healthy drinks is being overlooked

6 September 2013

Fruit juices and smoothies represent a new risk to our health because of the amount of sugar the apparently healthy drinks contain, warn the US scientists who blew the whistle on corn syrup in soft drinks a decade ago.

Barry Popkin and George Bray pointed the finger at high fructose corn syrup in soft drinks in 2004, causing a huge headache for the big manufacturers, including Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

"Smoothies and fruit juice are the new danger," said Popkin, a distinguished professor at the department of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, in an interview with the Guardian.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/07/smoothies-fruit-juices-new-health-risk

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I was just going to say juice and milk.

They are good for you but they are also bad for you at the same time.