These cookies have nutrition facts on them

by Bob Sassone (Subscribe to Bob Sassone's posts)
Posted Apr 24th 2007 4:34PM
Filed under: Snacks, Trends, New Products, Health & Medical

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Here's an idea that is either brilliant or will make you feel really, really guilty about eating snacks.

AndrewAndrew has come up with these cookies that have the nutritonal label printed right on the icing! So now with every bite you can see what you're putting into your body. Or, if you don't want to know, you can just shove the whole thing into your mouth and not think about the numbers.

I wonder if this would work with other foods? Maybe print nutritional labels right into a piece of Wonder bread or onto a piece of Kraft American cheese? It probably wouldn't work with Pepsi or creamed corn.

[via Boing Boing]

Tags: andrewandrew, boing boing, calories, cookies, diet, fat, icing with nutrition facts, IcingWithNutritionFacts, nutrition facts, nutritional label, sodium

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4-24-2007 @ 4:40PM

esmereldagrubb said...

This should be called "anorexic labeling" because this is what someone with an eating disorder sees on everything he or she eats....it becomes numbers right in your face...no longer "just a cookie".

4-25-2007 @ 10:16AM

Miss Tiffie said...

A cookie should be enjoyed. That just makes me not want to eat it or feel guilty about it. I kinda agree with above, not as extreme tho. But I think a lot of kids are getting influenced by learning about calories and fat and counting them that it could be really a negative influence on them with their relationship with food.

4-25-2007 @ 12:29PM

ang said...

I think this cookie is a social commentary on how we've changed food from enjoyable nosh to technical nourishment.

4-25-2007 @ 4:47PM

Vesna Vuynovich Kovach said...

This is a perfect example of a criticism that writer Michael Pollan has made of the way we view food nowadays: as a delivery system for nutritional components.

No, thanks.

4-25-2007 @ 6:03PM

Adriane said...

Ang- A thought provoking idea. Funny how we still want the emotional "enjoyment" of food with nourishment, and how many see those two as opposing ideals.

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