Thursday, January 21, 2016

Cream crackers vs chocolate

I mentioned that I love cream crackers. My girls look them too, sometimes I give them some as breakfast, as many Malaysians do with a cup of Milo (chocolate drink).

Well, this didn't go too well with hubby. For him cream crackers are junk food and we shouldn't give junk food to our kids. Does it mean the Malaysians who are having crackers with Milo are eating junk to provide them energies for the whole morning?

During the whole month of Decembre we had advent calender, so every morning the girls had a chocolate. I didn't like this idea. For me Chocolate provides nothing nutritious except fat and sugar.

So, I accused him of serving the kids junk food (chocolate), which he disagreed, while I didn't think that cream crackers are junk.


We decided to look at the nutrition information. Below is the table of comparaison. We can see that crackers have more carbohydrate, protein and salt whereas chocolate has excessive fat and sugar. Both are to be avoided I guess but chocolate is evil if you ask me.

Nutrition information

(Average Values)

Jacob’s Cream Crackers (Per/100g)

Côte D’Or’s Chocolate

(Per/100g)

Energy

1851kj / 440kcal

2370kj / 570kcal

Fat

13.5g

38.5g

Of which Saturates

6.2g

16.0g

Carbohydrate

67.7g

42.5g

Of which Sugars

1.4g

40.5g

Fibre

3.8g

4.6g

Protein

10.0g

9.7g

Salt

1.3g

0.20g