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As if it were not enough to destroy our collective size, they also launched three new flavors: the trios, the raisins and the caramel-toffe-tastic will now join the range. The greatest news of all? The trios (peanut butter, chocolate chips and whole grain oats) and offeed-tastic (butter cookies with caramel bits) are gluten free. Although it is not the first gluten-free options offered by the group, they first mark gluten-free cookies will be available at the national level. But what about changes on the forehead of the ingredient? We are sorry to disappoint: scouts always use shaded ingredients in their candies.

We are not to ruin the cookies of Girl Scout for you (we admit to have a thing for thin mint). And the truth is said, the scouts have made a conscious effort to improve the nutritional value of their annual treats. The year 2014 marked the inaugural year for gluten-free chip chip zucchini, which led to the trios (butter of peanut butter gluten and oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips); And cranberry citrus chips are made with healthy canola flour and whole wheat flour. Not bad! But other cookies in the range contain less than stellar ingredients - things such as partially hydrogenated oil and the high fructose corn syrup that we know are major contributors to diabetes and obesity rates. United.

When we contacted the scouts of the girl (before adding the online order) to explain why they reiterated a statement that you will find on their website:

"Scout Girl Cookies are sold for a short time each year," says Bret Arnold, Communications Officer for U.S.A.. "As such, scout cookies are considered a snack claw and are intended to be appreciated by moderation."

Whether you have on a cookie or 100, there are still unhealthy things in scout girl cookies that do not need to be. Here is a list:

Trans fat

The scouts of the girl proudly claim that all their cookies have "zero gras trans per serving". It's a bit of a white lie. You see, the FDA allows manufacturers to slap the label "Zero Fat Trans" on any product with less than 0.5 g of trans fat per serving. But every time you can point to the words "partially hydrogenated oil" on a GSC label, you can bet there are cholesterol-stick with trans grease in the box. In addition, many cookies are made with palm oil, which, like trans grease, has been linked to high LDL levels in many studies.

Fake chocolate

This "chocolate" coating, you will find thin, somes and tags-long tags? It's not a real chocolate. The fat in the real chocolate comes from cocoa butter, which is mainly made of stearic acid healthy healthy. And in accordance with FDA guidelines, manufacturers can not label a "chocolate" product if they use anything else. Hence the "chocolaty" marketing. But it's just half of it. You will also find an alkalized cocoa on many labels, which means that an alkalizing agent has been added to balance the natural acidity of cocoa, thus destroying a large part of the good flavanoles for you.

Artificial colors

The Biscuits Dulce de Leche used yellow artificial food dyes 5, yellow 6 and Blue 2 Lake, which throws us a few reasons - mainly because studies have linked dyes to hyperactivity in children. And secondarily, the Dulce de Leche cookies were brown! Come on! Even we can fix a lot of brown cookies without ill-illuminated artificial colors.

Fructose-rich corn syrup

The Bakers ABC Des Girl Scouts - One of the two authorized sellers who serve the advice of the country - seem to have missed the memo concerning the "main purpose" of the organization "using the healthiest ingredients available", as they continue to use The corn syrup with high fructose content in their revenues. HFCs can be cheap for manufacturers, but the way it metabolizes-flooding the system with free fructose and disturbing hunger hormones - makes it easy one of the forms of sugar either available. Meanwhile, the second approved vendor of the Scout Girl, Little Brownie Bakers, understood how to make the same Cookies without HFC. Time for a Powwow, Bakers!

Bht

Ready for a real spinner head? The new crisps of cranberry pumpkin, the only cookies that offer a wheat flour of whole grains like first ingredient, pack also in a hot debated additive, BHT. "The BHT condom is always very controversial and limited research on whether it is harmful to the body or carcinogen", commented on Lisa Moskovitz, RD, CDN of theNutrition Group of New York, adding "it is always recommended to avoid consuming large quantities". If you eat Scout Girl scout cookies with constraint, you do not take a lot; But, if like many of us, a cookie is quickly transformed into five, which turns into ten, avoiding varieties with BHT could be a good idea.

So, what is a conscious cookie monster about health?

We consulted Moskovitz on cookie's picking strategies to satisfy your desire when even the best options are performed with these additives. What matters most here is your attitude on additive candies. No matter what cookie you choose, Moskovitz says, "It is recommended to keep portions to more than 2-3 per week." This was impossible when you have opened a fresh thin mint package, but perhaps now with wider and round availability, some restraint will be easier to manage.

Eating this!

Breadails (Trefoils), 4 cookies

Calories120Fat4.5 Gsaturet Fat2 Gsugar4 Gfiber in 1 g

NOT THAT!

Caramel Delite (Samoas), 2 cookies

Calories130FAT6 Gsatured FAT5 GSUGAR12 GFIBER1 G

Taking into account nutritional information to the ingredients in account, Moskovitz suggests that shortbreads are your best choice because they are the lowest sugar and calories (for four cookies, no less). If you order some boxes, take a note from our diet stuff book and hide them in your pantry. Out of sight can really tell the mouth.

A classic girl scout cookie, these coconut cookies, coconut, coconut, are not those for a false chocolate, an alcalized cocoa powder, a high fructose corn syrup and a palm core oil partially hydrogenated. The very first ingredient on the label is "sugar", which appears 5 times on various forms after that.