Originally posted by le sonick:
so, you healthy knowledgable eaters, anyone have any great online resources for finding out what foods are healthy and what foods arent.
i, for instance, love love love ciabatta bread, have a sandwich 3 times a week on the stuff. is it good bread or bad bread? i dont know. i just tried to find out. I spent 15 minutes and all i could come up with was that its made with 100% whole wheat, seems to have no trans fats or h-oils, and made with spring water.
sounds good, but maybe its not!
is it from a restaurant (Corner Bakery, Au Bon Pain, etc...) or from a store? most of the corporate lunch places have the nutritional content of their sandwiches on the web, but probably wouldn't break out details on the bread itself
if the bread doesn't have trans fats or h-oils, it sounds like it's OK. granted, the 100 % whole wheat doesn't tell us much, it still may not be whole GRAIN and may not have much fiber (really healthy bread should have at LEAST 3 g fiber per serving or more) HOWEVER, my opinion is that ciabtatta bread would be one the least of anyone's worries. bread is a wholesome, healthy staple if it is prepared w/o the hydrogenated oils or high-fructose corn syrup...
the American Dietetic Association has a good site:
http://www.eatright.org/ I also like Marion Nestle's work:
http://www.foodpolitics.com/ Center for Science in the Public Interest:
http://www.cspinet.org/ Nutrition Data tells you the macro & micro nutrient content of many foods:
http://www.nutritiondata.com/
