This is the unhealthiest sweet and savoury bread topping
Move over, complicated lunch salads with unaffordable ingredients that are impossible to find. The old-fashioned sandwich is back. If it ever went away at all. Fancy a sandwich? If you still want to keep it reasonably healthy, you’d better not sprinkle or spread this topping on your bread.
These days, we’re spoiled for choice with all the bread toppings available in the supermarket. From — for the die-hard fan — slices flavoured like frikandel to countless types of chocolate sprinkles (of which this is the very best). The same goes for jam and chocolate spread. Heavenly bread toppings, but it won’t come as a surprise that your dentist is less thrilled about your obsession. What’s the unhealthiest thing to put on your bread? That might — or might not — surprise you.
Unhealthy sweet sprinkle and spread toppings
Anyone wanting to guarantee a cavity at the dentist should keep sprinkling vruchtenhagel on their bread. It turns out to be the unhealthiest of all the sweet bread toppings available. With 15 grams of vruchtenhagel on your bread, you consume 14.7 grams of sugar. To put that into perspective: that’s 3.5 sugar cubes per slice of bread. Ouch.
Vlokken and chocolate sprinkles
Vlokken and chocolate sprinkles aren’t the best choice either if you want to keep an eye on your health. These sprinkle toppings contain 10.5 grams and 9.7 grams of sugar respectively per 15-gram serving. When it comes to unhealthy sweet spreads, honey takes the crown. A 15-gram serving contains no less than 12 grams of sugar. 20 grams of apple syrup contains 11.6 grams of sugar, while the same amount of jam contains 10.2 grams. Crazy about chocolate spread? Be aware that a 20-gram serving means consuming 12.2 grams of sugar.
Unhealthy savoury toppings
Savoury bread toppings aren’t always healthy either. They often contain a lot of fat and salt. Just look at Gelderse worst: 28 grams of fat (including 10 grams of saturated fat) and 2.3 grams of salt in a 100-gram serving. Smeerleverworst doesn’t score particularly well either. It contains, among other things, 28.4 grams of fat, of which 9.2 grams are saturated. You’re better off choosing lean deli meat such as chicken breast — although its fat and salt content is also fairly high.
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Source: Margriet
