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Those maraschino cherries will get ya every timeA nutritional analysis of Chris's parfait:
While decently low-fat, this parfait alone contains 45 grams of sugar, which is 9g over an adult man's recommended daily intake. Surprisingly, though, most of the sugar comes from the fruit rather than the toppings. Even including just the fruit (and halving the sugar for the cherries), he would still be hitting the recommended daily limit. I went into this looking to argue that Chris's parfait was less unhealthy than it looked, and left realizing that fruit is apparently really fucking bad for you.
- A small apple - 15g sugar
- A small mandarin orange - 8g sugar
- Half a banana - 6g sugar
- 3 Strawberries - 3g sugar
- ~4tbsp Great Value Whipped Topping - 2g sugar, 4g saturated fat
- One piece of Hershey's Special Dark chocolate - 3g sugar, 1.5g saturated fat
- 4 maraschino cherries - 8g sugar
If it was just the fruit it would actually be healthy despite the seeming high sugar content, those are natural sugars that are digested differently than the processed sugars in the chocolate, generic whipped topping, and maraschino cherries. Processed sugars go to your small intestine quick and almost completely undigested and are finally absorbed there = big blood sugar spike. Natural sugars move slower through the digestive system and pack way less of a punch when absorbed by the small intestine = much smaller blood sugar spike. The work your pancreas has to do to produce insulin for natural vs processed is like walking vs walking with a 50 pound backpack on
tldr Chris turns a healthy meal into a moderately unhealthy one by slopping processed sugars on top of natural ones like a boss
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