Oreo most favourite cookies, featuring two
chocolate biscuits with a sweet creme filling. First Introduced by Nabisco in
1912, it is now owned by Mondelez International. With availability in over one
hundred countries, Oreo offers a variety of flavours and limited-edition
releases.
But are you aware having Oreo cookies regularly can
have adverse effects on your health.
Many article on the internet telling you advantage
of Oreos but it’s not healthy cookies. You should stop having them.
Nutrition chart of Oreo cookies:
Oreo cookie is made using
eleven main ingredients:
Unbleached enriched flour
(wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mono-nitrate (vitamin B1), riboflavin
(vitamin B2), folic acid), High oleic canola oil or palm oil, Cocoa (treated
with alkali), High-fructose corn syrup, Leavening agent (baking soda or
monocalcium phosphate), Corn starch, Salt, Soy lecithin, Vanillin, Chocolate
Here are the main compounds
that affect your health from having Oreos.
Calories
Calories are units of energy
consumed from food that are utilized by the body for various physiological
functions and activities.
it’s generally advised that women have a maximum of 2000 calories and
men, 2500 calories in a day. 10 Oreo cookies gives you 700 calories
The excess calories accumulate
to become fat and over time, leads to obesity, heart diseases, high blood
pressure, and other diseases.
"Unbleached enriched
flour," a highly processed component, is used in the majority of Oreo
cookies. Unlike whole wheat, remove its most of the fibre.
Sugar
Basically, sugars are
carbohydrates. To the layman, sugar is a sweet-tasting, colorless, and
water-soluble compound.
Sugar is the main component of
Oreo, Oreo don’t just have sugar, but added sugar which is very unhealthy then natural
sugar.
Oreos have around 14g of total
sugar per serving, or 4.7g of sugar per cookie. About 60% of that sugar is
found in the cream—the rest is in the chocolate wafers.
For women, the American Heart
Association advises a daily sugar restriction of 25g, whereas for men it is
36g. Therefore, five Oreo cookies for women and seven and a half for males
would be enough for the majority of your daily sugar intake.
Since the body absorbs added
sugar directly into the body, it immediately boosts the blood sugar levels,
messing with the metabolic system. On the other hand, Natural sugars don’t
digest easily, therefore possess more minor threats than added sugars.
There is a lot of sugar in
Oreos. Oreo intake on a regular basis can lead to a variety of health problems,
such as dental damage, diabetes, excessive blood sugar, and more.
Fat
There are three types of fat Unsaturated
fats (have lower illness risks), Saturated fats can be falls in between good or
bad, Whereas trans fats are bad.
A person who consumes 2000
calories a day shouldn't consume more than 78 g of total fat,(FDA).
33.33 percent of the fats in
Oreo are saturated.()
So, a person shouldn’t come
consume more than 20 cookies in a day.(see the label)
Oreo has harmful saturated fats
which can accumulate in the arteries, causing heart diseases . It can build up in the body and cause
weight gain
Oreo is addictive
Oreo has high sugar, fats,
calories which makes it addictive. The combination of these compounds triggers
the brain’s pleasure centre like drugs and cocaine.
A study conducted on rats
showed that the pleasure center of the brain, was highly activated when rats consumed Oreo and showed preference for the creamy centre of the cookie.
The accessibility,
affordability, and addictive properties of fat, sugar like make Oreos more
addictive.
However, You can eat Oreos without
the cream which have about 38% fewer calories and 60% less sugar than eating
Oreos with the cream. Therefore, if you eat the same amount of cookies, it
would be considered healthier to eat Oreos without the cream.
Long term side
effects of Oreos
If you having Oreos every day you
may have these side effects or diseases.
- type
2 diabetes
- heart
disease
- weight
gain
- addiction
- metabolic
syndrome
- increased
triglyceride levels
Summary
Oreo
cookies have high amount of sugar, fat, and calories. Therefore, it can cause severe health condition like diabetes, obesity, and heart diseases. With these substance it is addictive as cocaine.(as based on research)
However, you can prevent the harmful effects by having Oreos. Stay in the limit of Oreos consumption to 2 or 3 per day to say within daily intake limits.
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