A healthy selection of Top Chef: the really top quality?

Nicole German (Reg. Dietitian)

Healthy Choice frozen meals have recently launched the brand in their television program Top Chef inspired by a new variety.

Saw a colleague to bring one for lunch and was pleasantly surprised the ingredient list.

I had just examined.

In 8 different varieties of Top Chef healthy choice frozen meals, but I have only two of them.

The first was the grilled vegetables frozen meals I reviewed in the Mediterranean with the rice.

The ingredients are mostly brown rice and vegetables with only a few additives. But then, I have examined the chicken pesto to taste, and this is what I got:

Ingredients: COOKED ENRICHED PASTA (water, durum wheat, WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, ferrous, and EGG WHITE COPPER SULPHATE [IRON], THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), COOKED CHICKEN TENDERLOINS (BUT ALSO CHICKEN SIS?FILEINEEN, WATER, olive oil, CONTAINS 2% or LESS ISOLATED SOY PROTEIN PRODUCT: [ISOLATED SOY PROTEIN, CORN STARCH, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SOY LECITHIN, with CARRAGEENAN,], DEXTROSE, salt, SUN DRIED TOMATOES, potassium and SODIUM PHOSPHATES, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, FLAVORING, ONION, GARLIC, CARAMEL COLOR), WATER, green and YELLOW ZUCCHINIWINE-CHARDONNAY, spinach,, CONTAINS 2% or LESS: OLIVE OIL, BASIL, GARLIC, CORN STARCH, PARMESAN NUT PUREE CONVERTED CHEESE (PARTLY SKIMMED MILK, cheese culture, salt, ENZYMES), ONIONS, PARSLEY, salt, CREAM, CHICKEN SEASONING (CHICKEN MEAT and NATURAL JUICES, salt, CHICKEN FAT, SUGAR, EM?KSISISS? [CORN and WHEAT GLUTEN, SOY] PROTEIN, dried whey, MALTODEXTRIN SYRUPS, YEAST EXTRACT, NATURAL FLAVORING, DISODIUM INOSINATE, and GUANYLAATTIKURKUMA, and ANNATTO EXTRACTS), SHALLOTS, SUGAR, dried in RESPECT ofFLAVORINGS, SPICES, SOYBEAN OIL, MONO-AND DIGLYCERIDES, WITH DATEM, SEA SALT.

So many of the ingredients are. Just look at which gives me a headache!

Of potassium and sodium phosphates: meat preservative that is used now, so they do not have to use the potentially carcinogenic nitrates.Potassium Chloride: Of course, derived from the salt substitute used to improve the taste.Soy protein em?ksisiss?: Soy protein which acid was broken, to become a member of the taste enhancer.DISODIUM INOSINATE and guanylaatti: another flavor-enhancer, which is not a vegaani breakfast or vegetarian friendly because it can be made for products of animal origin.Datem: basic substances, is used in the volume of a dough or baking.
Most of the frozen meals, a selection of healthy are about 230-330 calories average and up to 6 grams of fat,. They must be kept in the sodium levels in the 600 mg or less (which is still high, but is not as bad as the other brands).

That is one thing I like about the healthy choice. You can always ensure that does not pick up a meal, which is 1000 mg sodium!

Can I vote for the healthy choice meals, even in the Top Chef in the second variety, such as frozen meals brand Kashi and Amy n.

The taste is so-so, and so the nutritional quality. But it is still better than fast food pinch them.

Eat frozen meals? If so, what are you like?

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