Category: Baked goods

Maamoul Cookies: The Quality You Can Trust

Maamoul Cookies: The Quality You Can Trust

[ 0 ] January 2, 2012 |

I have reviewed Lofthouse Frosted Sugar Cookies a number of times. They are produced in the USA in slightly different manner (mostly by color) by any occasion like Valentine’s Day (rose), St. Patrick’ Day (green), Back to School  (red) event or Christmas but they all are essentially the same: some 40 (!) ingredients including 14 […]

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Right Bread For Christmas

Right Bread For Christmas

[ 0 ] December 17, 2011 |

When I asked a local bakery owner how many ingredients are in his breads he answered: Five or six… Yes! That was exactly what I was looking for!  Indeed, if you want to find healthy bread, simply count the number of ingredients and reject anything where ingredient list exceeds, let say, 12 items. Do not […]

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Spooky Lofthouse Cookie

Spooky Lofthouse Cookie

[ 1 ] October 22, 2011 |

No stated value While I don’t mind if Halloween baked goods are designed to look scary, the scary food additives are certainly not what we want. Recently I have reviewed “Back To School” Lofthouse cookies. Here is another example of almost exactly the same poor nutrition and high health risk product. Suspiciously, there is no […]

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Red Velvet Fake

Red Velvet Fake

[ 2 ] September 28, 2011 |

The DyeDiet goal is not to scare you, people. The goal is to inform you about the truth behind commercial statements designed to trick you into buying the products of poor nutritional value. Sometimes truth may look scary but we have to face it in order to make right decisions. Please keep in mind that […]

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Walmart PecanTarts

Walmart PecanTarts

[ 0 ] September 25, 2011 |

This is one of the few products of the Bakery at Walmart which contains no artificial colorants. The tarts made in Canada are safe to eat with the only foreign food additive, an artificial flavor, which is a chemical kept as a commercial secret. Anyway, with its low foreign food additive risk of only DDFI = […]

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Back To School artificial colors

Back To School artificial colors

[ 0 ] August 15, 2011 |

If you ask owner or baker of a small local bakery how many ingredients are in their cookies they will name something like 5 or 6 or maybe 7. According to the Wikipedia  cookies contain fat, flour, eggs and sugar. Add some salt, chocolate chips, almonds or raisins and you will get all kind of nutrients your […]

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Crackers: Dye Content

Crackers: Dye Content

[ 3 ] July 10, 2011 |

Austin Cheese Crackers with cheddar cheese, since 1932; net weight 1.38 OZ, (39 g), distributed by Kellogg’s. DyeDiet DOESN’T BUY IT! Austin Cheese Crackers: Risk, Nutrition and Dye Content This is another NOT very toxic food example with only 0.6 units of the Foreign Additive Impact (DDFI) and poor nutritional value of DDNF ~ 0.8. […]

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Unpatriotic cupcakes of Walmart

Unpatriotic cupcakes of Walmart

[ 2 ] July 1, 2011 |

Do Americans deserve better food? It depends on how YOU respond to this offer from Wal-Mart Stores: Celebrate America 12 “patriotic” chocolate mini cupcakes with buttercream icing. For $2.60 you get low nutritional value and apparent prevalence of artificial food dyes, emulsifiers and other wasteful food additives. DYEDIET DOESN’T BUY IT! Let’s take a look To see what did […]

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Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies

[ 4 ] March 17, 2011 |

St. Patrick’s Day special food risks I have already had posted an article on Lofthouse cookies for St. Valentine’s Day. At that time the frosted sugar cookies looked rose, now they are green, of course, but both Nutrition Facts and the long lists of forty two ingredients are essentially identical. First I assumed that to paint […]

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Walmart baked goods

Walmart baked goods

[ 2 ] March 15, 2011 |

Why do we color fruit? Whenever I see artificial colors added to fruit a question pops up in my mind: Why? I can understand the logic of attempting to mimic nature where there are no actual fruit present, like in Twizzlers Rainbow twists. But I don’t remember my mom or grandma ever adding a pinch […]

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