Nutella has agreed to pay out $3 million in two class-action lawsuit settlements to consumers who believed the company's sugar-coated ads claiming that Nutella was a healthy food suitable. The nutrition label lists the treat's 200 calories per serving, along with its 11 grams of fat -- the equivalent of a 3 Musketeers candy bar. No wonder hikers love the stuff.
_Canoeman_Nutella - Appalachian Trail
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I don't care what's in it! It's great! Give me a jar of Nutella, a jar of Crunchy Peanut Butter and a bag of bagels and I'm good to go. Oh, and add in a supply of those Starbuck straws of instant coffee, of course! What more could a hiker ask for?
_Woody_
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A healthy food suitable... for what? Human consumption? Baiting squirrel traps? Bathroom spackling?
And if not, then just what is Nutella deemed suitable for? I’ve actually never seen a Nutella ad in my life, so I have no idea what they were claiming about the product. But then I’m a label reader with a healthy dose of mistrust toward the food industry in general, and Nutella always looks like candy to me. Companies smartly don’t cater their advertising dollars to the likes of me.
_hoch_
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The first ingredient in Nutella (as a percentage of whole) is sugar. The second is palm oil. Then, at last, we get to hazelnuts, and finally to the milk chocolate.
Choosy Moms choosing Jif sound down right discriminating compared to those who choose Nutella. Obviously hikers have different priorities, but to call Nutella on par with peanut butter is a stretch.
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It is quite convenient to grab a jar of nutterella at any ser-sta-gro or market near the trail; fortunately, there are healthy alternatives for every single garbage food you can stuff down your junk-hole. I am looking at a jar of "Dark Chocolate Dreams" by 'Peanut Butter & Company' that claims to be a 'cozy little sandwich shop' in NYC.
It has 150 cal/oz & is sweetened with evaporated cane juice (which some claim is no better, but they also say that honey & agave syrup are no better than artificially created sucrose & high fructose corn monstrosity) & palm oil & cocoa & vanilla & lecithin & salt… nothing hydrogenated or artificial… I have to admit that co’s like Jif & Skippy are trying to offer somewhat less artificial stuff, so perhaps Nuts-ella will see the lite!
_inchworm plumber_
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There is a law in the United States that in order to call your product peanut butter it has to be at least 90% peanuts. Jif and Skippy both pass that test. And yes, there are natural versions of both available without the hydrogenated vegetable oils. Peanut butter is a healthy product, much much better for you than Nutella. The hydrogenation controversy is unresolved. The high-glycemic sugar thing, not so much. If you eat sugary crap and don't exercise demonically like a true-hiker or brush your teeth, you die. Slowly.
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Nutella is awsome on anything i am packing a jar of it now when i got resupplyed in D.W.G heading in to New-Jersey tommorow. RED-DOG ( flip-flop 96 & GA-ME 06 and again in 2012) Happy Hiking to every one and see you up the trail.
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