Today QVC is selling a 20 meal NutriSystem package for $170. I have never tried NutriSystem and I think that whatever a person does to get in shape in great, but I wondered what is in their meals. I think it is a real shame that they are peddling this stuff as “food” or even “healthy food”. So let’s take a look at their chocolate donut and their chicken tenders.
Here are the ingredients for their Chocolate Donut:
WATER, WHITE WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, APPLES, INULIN, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CONFECTIONERS’ COATING (SUGAR, PALM KERNEL AND PALM OIL, COCOA POWDER PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, NONFAT DRY MILK POWDER, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR), ENRICHED BLEACHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, REDUCED IRON, NIACIN, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, SOYBEAN OIL, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, DEXTROSE, GLYCEROL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: NONFAT DRY MILK, LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), MALTITOL, SODIUM CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, MONO AND DIESTERS OF FATS AND FATTY ACIDS, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SOY LECITHIN, EGG, EGG WHITE, CORN FIBER, SUNFLOWER LECITHIN, TOCOPHERYL ACETATE (VITAMIN E), SPICE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, SUCRALOSE, SALT, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE).
Lot’s of artificial crap 
WTF is “SODIUM CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE” ???
And here are the ingredients in their Chicken Tenders:
ROASTED CHICKEN TENDERS (CHICKEN TENDERS, WATER, CORN OIL, DARK BROWN SUGAR, SALT, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, CARAMEL COLOR, GARLIC POWDER, PAPRIKA, TURMERIC), GREEN BEANS, WATER, COOKED LONG GRAIN BROWN RICE, COOKED DRY ROASTED WILD RICE, MUSHROOMS, ALMONDS, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, BUTTER (CREAM AND SALT), BROWN SUGAR (SUGAR, CANE SYRUP), CORN SYRUP, ONIONS, CHICKEN BROTH, NATURAL STIR FRY FLAVOR (TAPIOCA MALTODEXTRIN, SOY SAUCE [WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT], AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, NATURAL FLAVOR [CONTAINS SOYBEANS AND WHEAT], MALTODEXTRIN, SESAME OIL, SUGAR, ONION POWDER, SALT, GARLIC POWDER, SPICE), CHICKEN FAT, CHICKEN BASE (CHICKEN INCLUDING NATURAL CHICKEN JUICES, SALT, CHICKEN FAT, SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN [FROM CORN], HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, DRIED WHEY, NATURAL FLAVORING, YEAST EXTRACT, AND TURMERIC), LEMON JUICE FROM CONCENTRATE (WATER, CONCENTRATED LEMON JUICE, SODIUM BENZOATE, SODIUM METABISULFITE AND SODIUM SULFITE (PRESERVATIVES), LEMON OIL), SOYBEAN OIL, LITE SOY SAUCE (WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE)), CIDER VINEGAR, FLAVORING, DEXTROSE, SPICE, BUTTER FLAVOR (WHEY, BUTTER OIL, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS,SALT, GUAR GUM, ANNATTO AND TURMERIC), XANTHAN GUM, CARAMEL COLOR, GARLIC, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, CITRIC ACID (USED AS A PRESERVATIVE), ANNATTO (COLOR).
So here we have “sodium phosphates, xanthan gum, corn syrup, caramel color, and all sorts of preservatives”.
The amazing thing is that there are plenty of nutritionists on YouTube and blogging that can offer you a free diet plan that requires none of this fake food crap and I bet that if you buy the food fresh it will cost less than $170 for 20 meals.
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