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As most of you know I’ve been knee deep in Atkin’s and really now seeing some major progress. But after watching a Donut paradise special on TV the other day, where they took us on a cross-country adventure looking for the best donuts, I suddenly started to crave that which we all know is bad for us–the donut!

So wouldn’t you know what I started looking for Nutritional information from websites and I couldn’t find the ingredients for a KK donut. Now as most know Atkins is all about the carbs, but getting further into your eating, you should also (regardless if you are on Atkins) be focused on WHAT is in your food. It’s absolutely surprising to know that the food that we’ve come to love and enjoy is actually pretty bad for us in many different ways, but mainly because of the raw materials that goes into making the food.

Below is what I got back from Krispy Kream regarding the ingredients that they use, and enough to say YOU SHOULD NOT EAT THESE on the sheer principle that the first ingredient is not at all what you want to put into your body!

Ingredients: Enriched bleached wheat flour (contains bleached wheat flour,
niacin, reduced iron, thiamine, mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), dextrose,
vegetable shortening (partially hydrogenerated soybean and/or cottonseed oil),
water, sugar, soy flour, egg yolks, vital wheat gluten, yeast, nonfat milk, yeast
nutrients (calcium sulfate, ammonium sulfate), dough conditioners (calcium
dioxide, monocalcium and dicalcium phosphate, diammonium phosphate, sodium
stearoyl-2-lacrylate, whey, starch, ascorbic acid, sodium bicarbonate, calcium
carbonate), salt, mono-and-diglycerides, ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides,
lecithin, calcium propionate (to retain freshness), cellulose gum, natural and
artificial flavors, fungal alpha amylase, amylase, maltogenic amylase,
pantosenase, protease, sodium caseinate, corn maltodextrin, corn syrup solids
and BHT (to help protect flavor).
Glaze also may contain: Calcium carbonate, agar, locust bean gum, disodium
phosphate, and sorbitan monostearate.

This isn’t to say that the donuts are terrible, but for those who are health consicous and this is going out to the majority of US folks who are considered to be on the obease side of things, you should definitely stay away from foods with enriched bleached white flour. Really where’s the nutritional benefit from that!