Some of the fun nonsense of 'healthy' recipes and the idiocy of "wellness blogging". Moral of the story: there is no such thing as a healthy pancake 1/pic.twitter.com/Ts4DFtTjKt
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You can find them, respectively: 3/ http://www.modernhoney.com/banana-oatmeal-pancakes/ … http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/easy-pancake-recipe/232125a6-05fc-4f78-b5c5-f8e5298a99ed …
Here are the healthy ingredients. They come with a 500-odd word blog about how amazing they are and how important it is to go plant-based to avoid GMOs and dairy 4/pic.twitter.com/Wc13emDKbd
And the unhealthy ingredients. Comes with a brief video of how to make pancakes and the recipe 5/pic.twitter.com/BVvQcSBl2l
Putting aside the serving suggestions, which are pretty similar, and the cooking suggestions which are virtually identical, let's look at the nutrition content 6/
Here's a quick spreadsheet I made of the two recipes, side-by-side. I took these values from generic products of each of these ingredients on the internet 7/pic.twitter.com/hrTNVPcUMh
How do the healthy pancakes stack up? Well, they do better in fibre/serve and sugar/serve (by a tiny bit) 8/pic.twitter.com/dVKS3eEmxT
But, the 'unhealthy' pancakes are actually less fatty and have quite a lot less calories (~25%) 9/pic.twitter.com/njKVgw8EXO
What does this mean? Basically, that there's no such thing as healthy pancakes 10/
You might be eating ~slightly~ more fibre if you cook the 'healthy' recipe, but you're also getting far more calories per pancake 11/
(Yes, I know serving size differs based on how you make the pancakes, but I'm going by the reported serving size. The pancake/batter ratio of both recipes is pretty similar) 12/
Replacing 'unhealthy' things like caster sugar with 'healthy' things like maple syrup and bananas makes very little difference in your pancake experience 13/
As someone once told me: eating raisin muffins is a total crock. Even if you aren't getting as much chocolate, what you're eating is still mostly muffin 14/
It turns out that this is true for 90% of the 'wellness' crap that you'll see. Replacing sugar with agave nectar is pointless because AGAVE NECTAR IS SUGAR 15/
For someone trying to lose weight, the unhealthy pancakes might actually be better because you're getting 25% less calories in the same portion size 16/
That's not a definite truth, but it's not unlikely. Either way, the recipes are pretty damn similar in terms of nutrition 17/
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