A nutritional analysis of Chris's parfait:
- 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
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.