As Canada’s Heart and Stroke Foundation explains, all fruit juice is high in sugar: “An eight-ounce serving of juice and cola both contain about 30 grams of sugar on average—that's almost eight teaspoons.”
“A plant growing from a seed is pretty amazing,” observes Dr. Joe Schwarcz of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society. “So is the hype that grows from a seed of truth in the area of nutritional supplements.”
According to healthy eating magazine Cooking Light, veggie chips are “no healthier than potato chips.” Commercially available veggie chips, according to the magazine, “are only made with 60-70 percent produce”.
Coconut oil is versatile to say the least. In addition to its usefulness as a cooking oil, cooking website Taste of Home observes that it makes a great facial moisturizer, hair mask, makeup remover and insect repellent
Diet soda uses artificial sweeteners to mimic the taste of the sugar that gives “real” soda its appeal. However, according to Medical News Today,.
Agave syrup has been widely marketed as a healthy, diabetic-safe alternative to granulated sugar and corn syrup, but there is ongoing debate on whether it is worth the hype.
Some plant burgers are going to have added fat, and commonly added fats include saturated fats like coconut oil and palm oil.
Flavoured yogurt isn’t the healthy breakfast option that many people think it is. “Yogurt is not supposed to be sweet,” writer Annabelle Timsit explains in Quartz.
Some health food enthusiasts claim that wheatgrass, the freshly sprouted leaves of the common wheat plant consumed in juice or powder form.