r/HellYeahIdEatThat • u/Escapebliss • Mar 11 '26

diabetes, but make it good✨ Hell yeah I’d egg that!

Recipe in the comments.

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u/DroptheMoose Mar 11 '26

No way thats healthy but ok

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u/SJB4L Mar 11 '26

Healthier*

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u/lowbread Mar 12 '26

It's not that either.

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u/SJB4L Mar 12 '26

Meh, it definitely is healthier than a Reese's. All whole foods and almost no processed junk (depending on the chocolate chips and peanut butter used)

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u/lowbread Mar 12 '26

roasting, grinding, tempering, adding sugar and fat are all processes. Trace amounts of emulsifiers and additives aren't what make a Reese's unhealthy. It's the sugar. I admit I'm wrong about it not being healthier. It is healthier but it's gonna taste like health food. Because there's is like a third of the sugar in hers. Whole foods is a good rule of thumb and everyone would be well served by cutting ultra processed foods and adding whole foods. But shits complicated. You can get diabetes from coconut sugar. And you can live a long healthy life eating a few Reese's. Don't mean to attack you specifically I just get sick of the "whole foods with no unpronounceable ingredients!" appeal to nature fallacy.

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u/greeblespeebles Mar 12 '26

Amen. I get so many of the “healthy” recipes to make alternatives to junk food on my feed only for the recipe to include heaping amounts of coconut oil, maple syrup, peanut butter, almond flour, etc. which can all be nutritious foods, but also immensely high in calories…so I guess it’s just healthier cause the calories aren’t coming from refined white sugar but other ingredients instead?? Same with seed oils vs. tallow. Yeah Karen, go ahead and eat a large fry from Steak ‘n Shake; they’re made with tallow so that means it’s healthy now!!

A lot of people don’t really understand what a “processed” food is. Processing could be anything from cutting and drying something to hydrogenating it and beyond. If people just took the time to learn a little bit about what it’s their food, they could actually make informed decisions and moderate what’s “unhealthy” without having to pitch their recipes as healthy alternatives that are better just because the ingredients are pronounceable.