Nutrition Nugget: Drizzilicious — Transcript

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1. 0:05Welcome to Salad with a Side of Fries.
2. 0:07I'm your host, [music] Jen Trepik,
3. 0:09talking wellness and weight loss for
4. 0:11real life. We're here to clear up the
5. 0:13myths, misinformation, bad science, and
6. 0:15marketing to teach you how to eat and
7. 0:18how to cheat. Are you ready? I'm having
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9. 0:23This week, we're talking about
10. 0:25Drizzylicious. So, first shout out to
11. 0:27Caitlyn on my social media team for this
12. 0:30one. So, she said not only has she tried
13. 0:32them, they're her latest obsession.
14. 0:36She sent them to me to say maybe these
15. 0:39are a great nutrition nugget. So, here
16. 0:40we are. Now, per usual, I started at
17. 0:43their website. They say it's drizzled
18. 0:45and it's delicious. Drizzly, the
19. 0:47irresistible better for you snack. I
20. 0:51mean, okay. While they have Caitlyn's
21. 0:53endorsement on the flavor, I see at the
22. 0:56top of the website in the image, they
23. 0:58have three packages and it says, "Many
24. 1:01rice cakes reimagined." Now, if you're a
25. 1:04longtime listener and you know that
26. 1:06phrase made my antenna go up because in
27. 1:09our nutrition nugget on rice cakes, we
28. 1:12determined that they are the
29. 1:14quintessential definition of empty
30. 1:16calories. So, I'm very curious if these
31. 1:20are two. Now, they say it has chia,
32. 1:24quinoa, and flax. 90 calories per 21
33. 1:27pieces. So, these must be teeny. Like,
34. 1:30I'm guessing size of a quarter, maybe a
35. 1:33nickel. And they're featuring some
36. 1:36holiday flavors like peppermint and
37. 1:38gingerbread. They also drizzled popcorn,
38. 1:40so maybe that's a topic for another
39. 1:42nutrition nugget. We're staying with
40. 1:43Caitlyn's choice of the rice cake. Okay.
41. 1:46Then it says, "At just 90 calories per
42. 1:4921 pieces, Drizzylicious is a smart
43. 1:51little snack you can feel great about.
44. 1:53Full disclosure, I'm not sold yet,
45. 1:55[laughter] right? We'll see about that."
46. 1:57All right. Then it says, "Allergenfree.
47. 1:59Our products are made in a peanut and
48. 2:01tree nut-free facility and are all
49. 2:03allergen-free." Okay, that might be a
50. 2:05selling point for you. Then we see
51. 2:07certified gluten-free, non-GMO, product
52. 2:10verified, vegan, and certified kosher.
53. 2:13And these may make them winners for some
54. 2:16people. For other people, it kind of
55. 2:18just is what it is. And neither here nor
56. 2:20there. Now, since we're focusing on the
57. 2:22rice cakes, I'm just going to, you know,
58. 2:25share that piece. So, they say, "Our
59. 2:26rice cakes are really special, or our
60. 2:29rice cakes really are special. With just
61. 2:3290 calories per 21 pieces, you'll be
62. 2:34amazed you can finally eat something
63. 2:36delicious you don't feel guilty about.
64. 2:38Available in a multitude of flavors,
65. 2:39this fan favorite is no stranger to the
66. 2:42average snacker. Go ahead, enjoy
67. 2:43yourself and indulge guiltlessly. So,
68. 2:46for what it's worth, they had two typos
69. 2:48in there. If anybody from Drizzylicious
70. 2:50is listening, just FYI, take a look. Let
71. 2:52me know if you want me to proofread it
72. 2:54for you. Okay, so the thing is is we're
73. 2:58not learning anything new. Every time
74. 3:00they have the chance to tell us
75. 3:01something, they just reiterate the same
76. 3:03thing of 90 calories, 21 pieces. We get
77. 3:06it. Okay. I tried to look up, you know,
78. 3:08a little bit more about the company.
79. 3:09Where did it come from? So, it sounds
80. 3:11like the founders are either siblings or
81. 3:16they both had moms who gave them rice
82. 3:18cakes with peanut butter. I'm not
83. 3:20totally sure either way, but essentially
84. 3:22they were rice cake fans, so they
85. 3:24decided to upgrade them. And then again,
86. 3:26it continues to repeat all the same
87. 3:28things. So, let's look at the nutrition
88. 3:30facts. Caitlyn said she loves the
89. 3:32cinnamon flavor. So, that's where I
90. 3:34went. They describe it as mini rice cake
91. 3:38with cinnamon swirled and glazed with
92. 3:40white chocolaty drizzle. Now, I'm
93. 3:43noticing it's not a white chocolate
94. 3:45drizzle. So, there's probably using
95. 3:48things to mimic that flavor versus
96. 3:50actually just using some white
97. 3:51chocolate, but let's see. By the way,
98. 3:53they're now touting 100% plant-based.
99. 3:56And all that means is that there's no
100. 3:57animal product in here, which frankly I
101. 3:59would expect for a rice cake. So, you
102. 4:02know, here we go. Oh, yeah. Then they're
103. 4:04saying again reiterating quinoa, chia,
104. 4:06and flax. Okay, 90 calories per serving,
105. 4:09five servings in the package. They keep
106. 4:11telling us the 90 calories. We get it.
107. 4:13All right. 2 and 12 gram of fat with one
108. 4:16gram of saturated fat, 16 gram of carbs
109. 4:19with zero gram of fiber, 5 g of sugar,
110. 4:22of which four are added sugar, and then
111. 4:251 g of protein, and essentially zero
112. 4:28negligible micronutrients. So, before we
113. 4:31get to the ingredients, these nutrition
114. 4:33facts are telling me that we once again
115. 4:35have empty calories, mostly carbs, only
116. 4:39a little bit of fat. That's not enough
117. 4:41to balance those carbs. So, probably for
118. 4:45most people, this may create a blood
119. 4:47sugar spike and drop. Now, obviously,
120. 4:49you're going to have to see, you know,
121. 4:51how you feel. And based on what we're
122. 4:52seeing here, even from these nutrition
123. 4:55facts, it doesn't seem like there's much
124. 4:56of the quinoa, chia, or flax in there,
125. 4:59even though they've been telling us all
126. 5:01about it. All right, ingredients. Rice
127. 5:04crisp, which is made of white rice,
128. 5:07corn, tapioca starch, corn starch,
129. 5:10sugar, flax, whole quinoa, salt, spice,
130. 5:14chia seeds. Then the flavored coating is
131. 5:17made of sugar, palm kernel oil, natural
132. 5:19flavor, salt. And then there's sunflower
133. 5:22oil, sugar, and cinnamon. All right.
134. 5:25[laughter]
135. 5:26Basically, I was right. Not much of
136. 5:30those superfood like ingredients are in
137. 5:32there. They're relatively low on that
138. 5:34ingredient list as far as what's in that
139. 5:37crisp. They're mimicking the white
140. 5:39chocolate flavor versus using the
141. 5:41ingredient. The palm kernel oil and
142. 5:44sunflower oil are certainly not my
143. 5:46favorite sources of fat. For you, they
144. 5:49may or may not be a dealbreaker. You get
145. 5:51to decide. And the natural flavors also
146. 5:53for some people may be a deal breaker. I
147. 5:56like that they're using sugar. You know,
148. 5:59I know some of you are probably
149. 6:00listening going, "What?" But I like, you
150. 6:03know, often times when we try not to use
151. 6:06sugar, it ends up with 85 other
152. 6:09ingredients or, you know, here it's not
153. 6:11high fructose corn syrup. It's not 25
154. 6:14other things trying to get to a sweet
155. 6:16flavor. So anyway, there's not a ton of
156. 6:19wild unpronouncable things in this list
157. 6:22either. So I guess that's a pro. And I
158. 6:26always say you have to look at the
159. 6:27details of any flavor if you're going to
160. 6:29try it. Curiosity killed me a little
161. 6:32bit. So, I took a look at another
162. 6:34flavor, the samores one, and it is a
163. 6:37little different in the nutrition facts
164. 6:39and the ingredients, but the takeaways
165. 6:41are more or less the same. So, that one
166. 6:43has some molasses powder, so we're
167. 6:46getting into the land of more
168. 6:48sweeteners. The ingredients are also
169. 6:50different, but still like your quinoa,
170. 6:53flax, and chia are not at the top of
171. 6:55that list. I don't know. I feel like for
172. 6:58the way they marketed all of that, I
173. 6:59would expect them to be higher and for
174. 7:01those ingredients to be reflected in the
175. 7:02nutrition. Oh, and then I had to look at
176. 7:05one more. So, it was the birthday party
177. 7:06flavor. And this one, I love it. There's
178. 7:09carnuba wax in this one. So, we
179. 7:11definitely don't need that. And frankly,
180. 7:14just depending on the flavor, we're
181. 7:17getting empty calories, empty carbs,
182. 7:20even if not a ton of calories, they're
183. 7:23coming with other things that you may
184. 7:25not want. So, with all of that said,
185. 7:29they may serve a purpose for you. You
186. 7:31know, they may be a better alternative
187. 7:33to something else that you're currently
188. 7:35having. If that's the case, I think
189. 7:38awesome. Go with it. For me, if I were
190. 7:41to use these, I don't know, maybe I'd
191. 7:43use them as like a topping on something.
192. 7:45So, if you wanted to turn your Greek
193. 7:47yogurt or cottage cheese into something
194. 7:50else, like you could use a couple and,
195. 7:52you know, maybe break them up on top of
196. 7:54that. Maybe you have a couple with some
197. 7:56almonds or walnuts. I don't know. I
198. 7:59personally would not make them a staple
199. 8:01of my routine. I probably wouldn't eat a
200. 8:04whole serving either. I don't know. I'm
201. 8:06not sure how easy it is to stick to one
202. 8:08serving. 21 probably feels like a lot of
203. 8:11pieces, but then with these kinds of
204. 8:13ingredients, I think it could be super
205. 8:15easy to eat the whole package. I don't
206. 8:17know. Jared Sinclair, what do you think?
207. 8:21>> Well, I think we're on the same page. Um
208. 8:23there's there's a couple of things. You
209. 8:24know, I do a lot of looking at
210. 8:27supplement facts panels for people.
211. 8:29Obviously, you're doing the nutrition
212. 8:31facts. Pretty much the same idea, but
213. 8:33there are some little tricks that can be
214. 8:34played too, Jen. You know, it's the
215. 8:37first ingredient on that flavor
216. 8:40cinnamon. The first ingredient was the
217. 8:42actual Sorry, I lost it now. I The rice
218. 8:45crisp.
219. 8:45>> How to pull the rice crisp. Right. And
220. 8:46it has like six or seven ingredients in
221. 8:48it. Right.
222. 8:48>> Exactly. Yep. And so in that you have
223. 8:52chia and flax and quinoa. But I dare say
224. 8:55that based on the nutrition facts panel,
225. 8:58there's a really good chance that all
226. 8:59three of those things would actually be
227. 9:01a lot closer to the very bottom of the
228. 9:02list if they weren't lumped in with the
229. 9:04rice.
230. 9:06Right.
231. 9:07>> Yeah. So they come up higher on the list
232. 9:09because they're part of the first group
233. 9:12of part of the rice cake. Exactly.
234. 9:14Exactly. And so that's not so great. And
235. 9:16then I have a personal gripe, not
236. 9:18against Drizzylicious specifically, but
237. 9:20almost every packaged food, even the
238. 9:22ones in health food stores. Let's get
239. 9:24rid of the sunflower oil. My goodness,
240. 9:27it's in everything. It's like hyolic
241. 9:29sunflower oil and organic hyalic
242. 9:32sunflower oil. But we just talked about
243. 9:34how much of these seed oils we're
244. 9:36getting versus healthier oils that we
245. 9:39actually need. And it's time, you know,
246. 9:41things are starting to shift. We now
247. 9:43have chips on the market that have
248. 9:44tallow. uh we have more things being
249. 9:46made with butter and things like that,
250. 9:48but I think sunflower oil needs to go
251. 9:50away a lot more than it has.
252. 9:51>> I'm with you. But for everybody again, I
253. 9:53think it's also a question of like this
254. 9:55as opposed to what.
255. 9:56>> Right. Right. There's always this may be
256. 9:59Exactly.
257. 9:59>> Yeah. There's always a trade-off, right?
258. 10:01>> Right. And this may be progress. So
259. 10:03awesome.
260. 10:04>> Yeah. They do look good.
261. 10:05>> Yeah. [laughter] I mean,
262. 10:06>> the package is appealing,
263. 10:08>> right? Exactly. And Caitlyn says they
264. 10:10taste delicious. So
265. 10:11>> yeah, they probably are. Caitlyn's word
266. 10:13is enough for you. Go for it. Let us
267. 10:15know if you tried them.
268. 10:16>> But I love your idea of putting it on
269. 10:18like yogurt or cottage cheese or
270. 10:19something like that. You know, protein
271. 10:20it up. That makes sense. And give
272. 10:22yourself a few of those indulgence.
273. 10:24Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense.
274. 10:25>> Yeah. Well, and just a reminder to
275. 10:27everybody, you know, read the label of
276. 10:29whatever flavor or product you have in
277. 10:31front of you so that you know. And if
278. 10:33you're curious about their popcorn, let
279. 10:34me know. Or if you've tried their
280. 10:36popcorn, let me know. All right. Well,
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