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While I'm not the biggest fan of Lender's bagels, I have to admit that they came through for me a few times. Sadly, they lack the thick, chewy skin that makes a real bagel such a ... lingering experience, but they have always been dense, tasty and reliably mediocre. Besides, from the mid-1990s on, I've been able to find them everywhere, which has proved very handy.Recently, Lender's caught my interest with the release of two new products aimed at people who are watching their caloric intake.
Lender's 100 calorie bagels contain 1 gram of fat, 18 grams of carbs, 4 grams of protein and 100 calories. Mini Lender's, on the other hand, are 70 calories each.
Unfortunately, both bagels contain my bête noire -- high fructose corn syrup -- which means that I won't be trying them. Meanwhile, Thomas' light bagels, which don't have HFCS, pack 120 calories apiece. Oh, the humanity!
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4-06-2009 @4:39PM Monika said... Props for the Who reference :)
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4-07-2009 @5:05AM Bernie B said... HFCS is so passe, the big boys are finally starting to go back to real sugar. Slowly, but there's real progress being made now.
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4-07-2009 @9:18AM Jon said... Why does Lender's include sweeteners in their bagels to begin with? Even their onion bagels have HFCS!
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4-07-2009 @11:15AM Annoachi said... Bagles aren't supposed to have sweetners! Why not just eat half a bagle instead of eating the low-fat made out of weird crap ones?
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4-07-2009 @11:14AM Carmen said... I also love bagels and used to get them at Einstein Bros. In the past few months I packed some few pounds so a friend of mine told me about the Smart Bagels and I decided to try them. They are awesome!!! They contain fortefiber which is a cutting-edge fiber which has been proven to lower cholesterol and sugar levels as well as aid with constipation. Not only I have lost the extra pounds but I have mantained it. And why not? I can have all the bagels I want if its the smart one. http://www.smartforlife.com
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4-08-2009 @2:36AM Brad said... HFCS may be passe, but rejecting a bagel because it has a little HFCS in it is just being an ignorant follower of the cult of brainwashed masses who espouse nothing but baseless "facts" about things like HFCS. FYI those 100 calorie bagels you rejected have more B3, iron, and water in them than HFCS. HFCS is not an evil plot, nor is it poison. Sugar is sugar (to healthy people anyway), you just have to be careful about not eating too much of it (eat less processed foods, or be careful about the amounts in the ones you do eat).
And cutting-edge fiber? It lowers cholesterol?! Seriously? Ever heard of soluble fiber? Go eat some oatmeal! I can't believe they've got people playing extra for some bagels with cellulose sprinkled in. HFCS comes from corn. Your "cutting edge" fiber is a cellulose created by the Dow chemical company.
Come on people, have some common sense will ya?
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4-14-2009 @11:02PM Stephanie said... I have also eaten my fair share of Lender's bagels and just because it has HFCS doesn't make it unhealthy option. Whether the label reads “sugar” or “high fructose corn syrup"--it makes no nutritional difference. As a registered dietitian I can tell you high fructose corn syrup has the same number of calories as sugar and is handled similarly by the body. One reason you find HFCS in food products is because it helps maintain moisture. I think it's great that these bagels give people options to eat less.
Stephanie Green RD
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4-18-2009 @4:35AM marileesinger said... I agree that sugar in any form is not good for you, and whole grain foods, like oatmeal, are much better for you than refined, processed white crap foods like bagels, BUT, hfcs is NOT the same as sugar; it does not have the same chemical makeup, it is metabolized completely differently. Check out the article on www.skinnycoach.com about HFCS and it's serious physical and mental effects on your body and metabolism. All sugars and all calories are NOT the same.
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5-02-2009 @1:31AM Uli said... Last month, I saw an interesting commercial where a mother was throwing a birthday party for her five-year old. She had a fruit drink that was sweetened with high fructose corn syrup and another mother scolded her for serving it. She replied that it was ok, because high-fructose corn syrup is all natural and made from corn, so what could be so bad?
Up to now, my only qualm with high-fructose corn syrup was that it is being added in higher quantities than necessary to so many packaged and bottled foods. Excess consumption of calories and sugar is a serious issue for Americans and probably one of the factors responsible for the rapid rise of obesity over the last 30 years. Americans eat around 150 pounds of sugar a year – in 1970, it was only 120. So that means the average American is eating 6 cups of sugar a week, mostly in the form of high-fructose corn syrup.
So What is High-Fructose Corn Syrup, and Why Could It Be Harmful?
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