People keep blaming the burger and completely ignore the big gulp soda consisting mostly of high fructose corn syrup that people usually have with it.
212g of sugar in a 2L bottle of coke (Coca Cola states 10.6g per 100ml). One teaspoon is roughly 4g of sugar.
53 teaspoons of sugar in that bottle.
Interesting.
Same for fruit juice but many people don't know and think it's healthy. Try eating 10 oranges. If you succeed, you've eaten a giant dose of fiber etc with it, so it's still not nearly as bad.
Think about how that burger is prepared, you get as much grease as you do burger. Hell the fries aren't even potatos anymore, once cooked they just become grease sticks. Lots of sugar in the condiments and they don't use real cheese. I've seen things dude.
Who doesn't use real cheese? I put real cheese on my homemade burgers...
Too many do not. "American cheese" is not cheese imo; mature cheddar doesn't melt as well maybe, but the sharpness brings a lot more to the table. Especially with a hot mustard in the mix.
For the sake of the healthy argument it's kinda irrelevant though. American cheese is cheddar with water, and then they use a chemical to bind the cheddar to the water. That makes it melt faster because it's already more watery than cheddar.
Afaik water is not unhealthy so American cheese is really not more unhealthy than cheddar.
Second thoughts reminding me - the emulsifiers aren't great for you unless taken sparingly.
If you make it with good cheese I'm open to it. The stuff you buy in stores tastes nothing like cheddar to me, but I've seen internet chefs make their own.
Here's a short reminder that the WHO recommends limiting the daily intake of sugars to 10% of your calorie supply (approx. 50g sugar/day for me) for beneficial health effects.
Limiting intake of free sugars to less than 10% of total energy intake (2, 7) is part of a healthy diet. A further reduction to less than 5% of total energy intake is suggested for additional health benefits (7).
Orange juice where i live has 10g sugars in 100ml of juice, so if you drink 1 L of it, you already take in 100g of sugars all in one go.
Orange juice where i live has 10g sugars in 100ml of juice, so if you drink 1 L of it, you already take in 100g of sugars all in one go.
Implying 1l of orange juice is not a lot, or at least doesn't feel like a lot?
Well it’s about proportion.
A burger is majorly meat and bread with a fatty ground beef with a hint of vegetables. In the “healthy” section I’d expect the diet to be more vegetables heavy as those have less calories and more nutrients.
Also the bread in healthy is a bit of a misnomer IMO. It’s not awful for you but I wouldn’t call a baguette pure “healthy” eating.
I wouldn’t call a baguette pure “healthy” eating
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Pulls out baguette knife.
Yeah you need to add at least 2 cigarettes.
True, white bread is just empty calories
I'm petty sure some us processed white bread qualifies as cake by other countries nutritional standards
I went to the us a few months ago and the bread there is so weird. We got "brown" bread but it was so soft and light that it didnt seem like brown bread at all. I have read that brown bread in the states is sometimes just white bread with food colouring so maybe it was that
If you buy the ingredients you can verify the quality and freshness and absence of additives and such. When you buy a burger you can do none of those things. Pretty obvious difference. Homemade burgers with high quality ingredients and non excessive amounts of meat are super healthy. Maybe use some actual wholegrain bread instead of this white paper stuff tho.
Fat red meat isn't that healthy, and even one small burger is already a pretty big portion of it, especially compared to the quantities of the other ingredients and how filling it is (i.e. not very filling).
I'd love a burger made from these ingredients. Except the onion, I don't like raw onion. Anyhow, it's not junk food. This is junk food:
The real bread isn't good for you. Those are empty, fiberless carbs.
The bun is bread + an assload of sugar + oil. Though, they do at least include sesame seeds as fiber.
4oz of lean chopped steak is (relatively) better for you than 12oz of 80/20 ground beef But that looks like more than 4oz.
The real problem is that the proportions are all wrong.
You should have a bowl of lettuce with 1/2 a chopped tomato and 1/4 of a diced onion, a couple ounces of ground beef crumbles and maybe some garlic croutons.
You should have a bowl of lettuce with 1/2 a chopped tomato and 1/4 of a diced onion, a couple ounces of ground beef crumbles and maybe some garlic croutons.
I recall doing things like this when doing keto (skipping the croutons of course). You can get close to a burger flavor and aroma profile if you add dill (or dill pickles), ketchup, and/or mustard as a dressing. The result is satisfactory if you're craving the real thing. Olfactory memory is incredibly potent, so use it to your dieting advantage.
Yes, indeed, I also spent quite a while in Keto. Taco salads were my fav.
a big chunk of meat can't be good for you, whether it's inside a burger or not
Burgers can be pretty healthy if you're an endurance athlete. It's not exactly a balanced meal, but I try to balance the food I eat in a day. It can be exhausting trying to get every meal right every time. Beef fat isn't exactly good for your heart though, and I like the taste of chicken better.
But really you should be eating to fit your lifestyle. The human body is pretty amazing and can thrive with a wide variety of diets.
The best part about being an endurance athlete is being able to eat shitloads of food.
The worst part about being an endurance athlete is having to eat shitloads of food.
burgers with
seem reasonable- thads whad u call a sandwich!
why no sauces?
Most sauces traditionally used on burgers are basically flavored sugar syrup. Something like mustard should be fine, though.
arent those likw - the ungealthiest part of a burgr?
I just try to eat as much food as I possibly can in the span of one hour from uni cafeteria (2.95€ for as much as I can fit on my plate) and call it a day with eating.
Ah yes, the snake style of eating
you have 3 euro lunches? last time I checked my uni (which is extremely big), sold a small club sandwhich for 12 us dollars.
For 2 people that comes to €41.30 a week, or £35.96. For the 2 of us we usually spend around £25 a week on shopping and that also includes non food things like toilet roll. Although I suppose you could try and save your shitting to the cafeteria too.
You could alternate days eating to further cut down on costs. How many kcal can you eat in an hour there, can you get your stomach used to feasting every other day?
The burger has cheese on it.
Theory: Any combination of foodstuffs, when placed in the vicinity of a fast food worker, will grow a slice of plastic cheese.
It's the bread. Everything else is healthy
Eating bread in moderation is perfect fine and healthy too. It is all just about moderation.
I've eaten only bread for 3 weeks straight. This is healthy
It's also the fact that (At least in the US) burgers get served next to a pile of french fries. Calorie mountain. Eating a burger without fries isn't a bad meal. Sub them with apple slices or olives or another pickle.
The bread isn't really the problem, it's the added sugars to "bring out its flavor".
Do they really add sugar to bread in the USA? Sounds so wild to me.
Anyhow, light bread isn't terrible, but wole-grain bread makes for a much more balanced diet.
Ireland declared subway breads are actually cakes due to the amount of sugar (some sugar in bread is 'natural' though)
My first customer was Megan She came in for a hamburger with the lot - no meat "Hey that's a salad roll" I said and we started going out
The Whitlams - I Make Hamburgers
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