Corrinedia

Why is Nutrition So Confusing?

So, in thinking about this little rant below a bit more, I want to create some sort of txtmarks app that you can text ingredients to and get a quick definition. The advantage to this over just searching the words in your mobile browser would be having a consistent source and formatting. 

corrine:

I was so excited to find these sugar-free lemon oatmeal cookies made by Jessie’s. I’ve got a terrible sweet tooth and it’s starting to really show with all my thesis stress eating so I’ve put the kibosh on sweets for a bit. I read the ingredients and there was only one I didn’t recognize - malitol. I looked it up and found this. Maybe I’ll get afflicted with gastric distress each time I eat one and it will be some sort of Pavlovian conditioning against cookies but maybe instead of labeling items sugar-free they should have a “sugar substitute” label.