Oh, Muffins

Personally, I’m not keen on muffins. They are too stodgy and dry for my liking. However

Some blueberry muffins sold by cafes and supermarkets contain more than the recommended daily intake of sugar for adults, researchers have discovered.

Yes? And? So? What people decide to put in their bodies is their concern. Recommended daily intake is just that; recommended and recommended by a bunch of obsessive fruitcakes who are best ignored anyway.

An analysis by Action on Sugar and the Obesity Health Alliance in January found the cakes could contain up to eight teaspoons of sugar.

Oh noes! run for the hills! oh and that’s another couple of little fake charities that need to be de-funded with immediate effect.

The recommended daily limit for adults is seven – for children it is less.

Health experts said the findings showed it was “all too easy” to consume “huge” amounts of sugar.

So what? This is a matter of personal responsibility. People who eat too much and get till and die early as a consequence have made their choice. It’s not as if any of this is a mystery. However, the vast majority are much more likely to consume the occasional muffin when out and about so no problem. And no one else’s business.

Action on Sugar and the Obesity Health Alliance, which looked at 28 muffins sold in food outlets in train stations and supermarkets, found 61% of them contained six teaspoons of sugar or more – the upper daily limit for a child aged seven-to-10 years old.

There are no limits outside of the vile wet dreams of these nasty little control freaks. And anyone that has time to waste checking out the sugar content of muffins is someone we should not be paying.

They also found muffins bought at train station food retailers had 19% more sugar per portion and were 32% bigger than those bought in supermarkets.

There was also a big variation, with muffins from Marks and Spencer containing just three teaspoons.

So what?

Caroline Cerny, from the Obesity Health Alliance, said: “We may think grabbing a blueberry muffin is a reasonably healthy option for a snack on the go compared to other cakes or a chocolate bar – yet the figures suggest otherwise.

Fuck off. I mean, seriously fuck right off . There is nothing whatsoever wrong with grabbing a blueberry muffin as a snack. Nothing, nada, zilch.

“There is huge variation in both the size of muffins and the sugar content, and with limited nutrition labelling, it’s all too easy to eat a huge amount of sugar in just one serving.”

I think you will find that the average person consuming a muffin is aware of this and doesn’t care and nor should they. It’s not as if they are eating muffins for breakfast lunch and dinner now, is it?

The research also found a lack of nutrition labelling on a number of muffins, both those sold in stations and in supermarkets.

Yeah, ‘cos when you want a quick snack and a muffin appeals, the nutritional value is right up there as a top priority, not how good it tastes.

The two organisations are now calling for manufacturers to reduce sugar in line with the government’s plans to cut it by 20% in common products by 2020.

In line with all puritans everywhere, they wish to make a nice little snack inedible, because someone, somewhere is enjoying them and we can’t have that, now can we?

21 Comments

  1. People enjoying life? Heaven forfend! Mind you, seven muffins a day? Can anyone eat that many? Two, three, maybe. But seven? Utter balls. They’re moreish, but not that moreish.

  2. Only Americans, barbaric race that they are, put sugar into muffins. Real muffins are a savoury much enjoyed by the English in former times with melted butter before the McDonaldisation of our Septic Isle.

  3. “ … obsessive fruitcakes … ”

    Ho, ho! Very witty, LR! Does this mean that they themselves contain more sugar than the “recommended” daily allowance? Perhaps they should start thinking about reducing themselves by 20% by 2020. All in the name of public health, you understand ….

  4. When I am King of Canada and its subservient provinces of England, Ireland And Scotland I will arrest “Caroline Cerny, from the Obesity Health Alliance”, then have her tattooed pink all over her foul corpus and imprisoned in the Yukon Territory, there to end her days shoveling snow from one bank to another.

  5. If a single muffin contains more than the daily recommended weight of sugar, then it’s the recommendation which is wrong, not the muffin.

  6. “There is huge variation in both the size of muffins and the sugar content…”

    We need a Department Of Muffin Regulation, then?

  7. Bit OT but I see that the BBC are going to repeat Fanny and Johnny Craddock’s cookery programmes, one of which included the lovely line from Johnny, Make sure your doughnuts are like Fanny’s.

    • Fanny said something about ‘making your sausage skins look like johnnies’, followed by the bit you quoted.

      A hilarious episode — I remember it well.

  8. Sugars are carbohydrates. They are quickly converted to energy in the body than more complex carbohydrates, so the former are more likely to be used immediately rather than being stored as fat like the latter.

    Remember we were all told to eat more carbs, rice and pasty (more ‘healthy) instead of nasty, cancer making meat and heart destroying dairy produce.

    And eat 5 a day (fruit and veg all full of sugars) instead of salty, fatty, sugary snacks.

    A cynic might think these ‘experts’ and advisory knew nothing about biology, physiology and nutrition.

  9. I’m guessing that research on smoking in the 50s and 60s was a waste of time? Shouldn’t have told anyone that smoking causes cancer and just let them work it out?

    • Poor analogy. However, a nice example of the smoking tactic applied to unrelated issues. Straight out of tobacco control’s pocket book that one.

      We already know and have known for a long time how the body processes sugars. So, no, we do not need to be wasting time and our money on this pointless exercise.

Comments are closed.