This stuff is soooo good! yep I know its not healthy but boy is it good.
We just tried it for the first time. I think I am hooked.
The commercials crack me up - all that talk about "ENERGY" (AKA sugar!) and mom getting her kid hyped up on the stuff before sending her off to school. "Nutella is made with skim milk, hazelnuts, and a hint of cocoa!" she says with an I'm-such-a-good-mommy smirk.
I'm thinking she must really hate her child's teacher!
Ingredients: sugar, modified palm oil, hazelnuts, cocoa, skim milk, reduced minerals, whey, soy lecithin, vanillin (an artificial flavour)
1 Tablespoon (aprox. 13.5g) of Nutella contains:
100 Calories
6g fat
11 grams of sugar
1g protein
Compare those 2 Tablespoons to a WHOLE Hershey's Milk Chocolate bar (43 g):
210 Calories
13 g fat
24 g sugar
3 g protein
If you multiplied the amount of Nutella by 3, giving us a little over 40 g and a more reasonable amount that you might spread on your bread, then the Nutella comes out rather badly compared to the Milk Chocolate Bar...
300 Calories
18 g fat
33 g sugar
3 g protein
On the Nutella Canada website there's a recipe for a "delicious, easy and quick way to start your day off right" involving a quarter cup (!) of Nutella and "low fat muesli". Good lord, why bother with anything low fat when you're already downing 24 g of fat and 400 calories worth of Nutella?
My hypoglycemic son would be unconscious in an hour if I fed him a quarter cup of Nutella for breakfast, regardless of whether I mixed it with muesli and stuffed it in an apple.
