Halo Top ice cream - safe during pregnancy?

[Anonymous]

It's not meant to be healthy. Nor is ice cream. It's simply meant to be a lower calorie option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not meant to be healthy. Nor is ice cream. It's simply meant to be a lower calorie option.

+1. There's nothing "natural" about ANY ice cream, it's all crappy junk food. So let OP eat what the hell she wants to eat. She was asking if whey protein is dangerous for the baby, it is not. So if this is what she wants to eat, so freakin be it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not meant to be healthy. Nor is ice cream. It's simply meant to be a lower calorie option.

+1. There's nothing "natural" about ANY ice cream, it's all crappy junk food. So let OP eat what the hell she wants to eat. She was asking if whey protein is dangerous for the baby, it is not. So if this is what she wants to eat, so freakin be it.

The ironic thing is whey protein is one of the most innocuous ingredients on the list

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just have a scoop of real ice cream. Moderation is your friend.

can you stay on topic?

What, and turn down a golden opportunity to shame a pregnant woman for what she's eating? How could PP possibly pass that up?

Come on, a pregnant comes on wondering if a chemical-ly diet ice cream is bad for pregnancy. I think suggesting that eating real ice cream in smaller portions would be a better bet if she was concerned. That isn't judgy, its practical.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just have a scoop of real ice cream. Moderation is your friend.

can you stay on topic?

What, and turn down a golden opportunity to shame a pregnant woman for what she's eating? How could PP possibly pass that up?

It has nothing to do with her being pregnant. I'd everyone to avoid the diet stuff and eat the real thing. That is not shaming.

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It's not shaming to state one's opinion that it's better to eat a reasonable amount of the "real" food than a substitute engineered to resemble that real food. I'd rather have a scoop of real ice cream than a pint of something trying to be ice cream without the fat and calories. Does no one remember Snackwells?

did you read the ingredients? it's really nothing scary. so much fear-mongering over nothing.

NP, but I don't think PP is fear mongering. That recipe list looks like it makes something ice cream-ish, purely for the sake of marketing to "health" at twice the price, when there is nothing healthy about it. Pregnant or not, you really would be better served having a proper serving of good quality ice cream vs. This concoction.

Yeah, that was my comment, and that's exactly what I meant.

Halo Top Vanilla Bean ingredients: Milk and cream, eggs, erythritol, prebiotic fiber, milk protein concentrate, organic cane sugar, vegetable glycerin, organic vanilla extract, organic vanilla beans, sea salt, organic carob gum, organic guar gum, organic stevia.

Haagen Dazs Vanilla: cream, skim milk, sugar, egg yolks, vanilla extract

Is ice cream a health food? No. But it's fine in moderation, and I think if you want ice cream, just eat some damn ice cream. Personally, I'd rather eat a reasonable serving of real ice cream, which will fully satisfy my craving, than some "ice cream" that won't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just have a scoop of real ice cream. Moderation is your friend.

can you stay on topic?

What, and turn down a golden opportunity to shame a pregnant woman for what she's eating? How could PP possibly pass that up?

Come on, a pregnant comes on wondering if a chemical-ly diet ice cream is bad for pregnancy. I think suggesting that eating real ice cream in smaller portions would be a better bet if she was concerned. That isn't judgy, its practical.

what is the chemical that people here are so afraid of? vegetable glycerin? erythritol? she's talking about some ice cream, not drinking vats of the stuff.

Some of you are as bad as the Food Babe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just have a scoop of real ice cream. Moderation is your friend.

can you stay on topic?

What, and turn down a golden opportunity to shame a pregnant woman for what she's eating? How could PP possibly pass that up?

Come on, a pregnant comes on wondering if a chemical-ly diet ice cream is bad for pregnancy. I think suggesting that eating real ice cream in smaller portions would be a better bet if she was concerned. That isn't judgy, its practical.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just have a scoop of real ice cream. Moderation is your friend.

can you stay on topic?

What, and turn down a golden opportunity to shame a pregnant woman for what she's eating? How could PP possibly pass that up?

Come on, a pregnant comes on wondering if a chemical-ly diet ice cream is bad for pregnancy. I think suggesting that eating real ice cream in smaller portions would be a better bet if she was concerned. That isn't judgy, its practical.

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No, she was wondering if a single component, whey protein, was bad to eat during pregnancy. It is fine to eat during pregnancy. Anything beyond that is you all being food babe cultists. Let the woman eat what she wants to eat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just have a scoop of real ice cream. Moderation is your friend.

can you stay on topic?

What, and turn down a golden opportunity to shame a pregnant woman for what she's eating? How could PP possibly pass that up?

Come on, a pregnant comes on wondering if a chemical-ly diet ice cream is bad for pregnancy. I think suggesting that eating real ice cream in smaller portions would be a better bet if she was concerned. That isn't judgy, its practical.

+1

No, she was wondering if a single component, whey protein, was bad to eat during pregnancy. It is fine to eat during pregnancy. Anything beyond that is you all being food babe cultists. Let the woman eat what she wants to eat.

I am not a food babe cultist. I think she's dangerous and I think that GMOs are derided for false pretense by people worshiping at the altar of false 'naturalness.'

That said, There is a lot of evidence that minimally processed food is generally better for you. IE, eating a potato raw is better than a boiled potato which is one step in processing, mashed potatoes have less nutrition than boiled potatoes due to another processing of the food. So if you have ingredients that took a lot of 'processing' to create they are inherently less nutritious and therefore less valuable calories than something that has been minimally processed like ice cream made with ingredients that can, at least, be procured in a semi natural state.

I get it, a pregnant woman wants to satisfy cravings and control weight. But if you're concerned about an overly processed ice cream ingredient then it is a perfectly reasonable suggestion to say they should just eat real ice cream, which is more nutritious per calorie than an overly processed diet food.

I would also say that we are only just now starting to see what some of these additives and substitutes can do when ingested long term. Aspartame for instance is only recently being questioned as possibly cancerous. Fat substitutes that grew to popularity in the 80's have been shown to have negative effects.

So while certainly issuing a blanket statement that any food found in a lab instead of a farm is evil is wrong, it is not outside the realm of good advice to tell people that an ideal diet would stick with minimally processed nutritious foods when those options are available and affordable.

[Anonymous]

Gave me terrible gas. Any diet food is stupid and probably not good for you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just have a scoop of real ice cream. Moderation is your friend.

can you stay on topic?

What, and turn down a golden opportunity to shame a pregnant woman for what she's eating? How could PP possibly pass that up?

Come on, a pregnant comes on wondering if a chemical-ly diet ice cream is bad for pregnancy. I think suggesting that eating real ice cream in smaller portions would be a better bet if she was concerned. That isn't judgy, its practical.

+1

No, she was wondering if a single component, whey protein, was bad to eat during pregnancy. It is fine to eat during pregnancy. Anything beyond that is you all being food babe cultists. Let the woman eat what she wants to eat.

I am not a food babe cultist. I think she's dangerous and I think that GMOs are derided for false pretense by people worshiping at the altar of false 'naturalness.'

That said, There is a lot of evidence that minimally processed food is generally better for you. IE, eating a potato raw is better than a boiled potato which is one step in processing, mashed potatoes have less nutrition than boiled potatoes due to another processing of the food. So if you have ingredients that took a lot of 'processing' to create they are inherently less nutritious and therefore less valuable calories than something that has been minimally processed like ice cream made with ingredients that can, at least, be procured in a semi natural state.

I get it, a pregnant woman wants to satisfy cravings and control weight. But if you're concerned about an overly processed ice cream ingredient then it is a perfectly reasonable suggestion to say they should just eat real ice cream, which is more nutritious per calorie than an overly processed diet food.

I would also say that we are only just now starting to see what some of these additives and substitutes can do when ingested long term. Aspartame for instance is only recently being questioned as possibly cancerous. Fat substitutes that grew to popularity in the 80's have been shown to have negative effects.

So while certainly issuing a blanket statement that any food found in a lab instead of a farm is evil is wrong, it is not outside the realm of good advice to tell people that an ideal diet would stick with minimally processed nutritious foods when those options are available and affordable.

LOL. Take it from this nutrition expert above, who thinks humans can eat raw potatoes.

[Anonymous]

NP, but I don't think PP is fear mongering. That recipe list looks like it makes something ice cream-ish, purely for the sake of marketing to "health" at twice the price, when there is nothing healthy about it.

Perfect for Whole Foods!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gave me terrible gas. Any diet food is stupid and probably not good for you.

Does anyone remember (quite a few years ago) those "diet" or "healthy" potato chips that gave people "gas with oily discharge"?? Immediately made me think of that.

[Anonymous]

Sorry never heard of it. Natural is always better.

[Anonymous]

It's the erythitol that's going to give you problems. Those sugar alcohols have a very low glycemic index but will cause severe gas and diarrhea in a lot of people. Whey protein is in every dairy product you eat so if it's bad in pregnancy then every is screwed.