The Food Blacklist - 49 foods you should avoid

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Friday 24 February 7:43 a.m.

Otago University researchers have come up with a list of 49 foods you are don’t need.

The list will be published today in the NZ Medical Journal.

There are usual sugar-filled suspects, but some that took us by surprise too!

1. Alcoholic drinks (Water/diet soft drinks)
2. Biscuits
3. Butter, lard, dripping or similar fat (Lite margarine or similar spread or omit)
4. Cakes
5. Chocolate
6. Coconut cream (Lite coconut milk/coconut flavoured lite evaporated milk)
7. Condensed milk
8. Cordial (Water/Sugar free cordial)
9. Corn chips
10. Cream, including crème fraiche (Natural yoghurt, or flavoured yoghurt depending on use)
11. Crisps, including vegetable crisps
12. Desserts/puddings
13. Doughnuts
14. Drinking Chocolate, Milo etc (Cocoa plus artificial sweetener)
15. Energy drinks (Water)
16. Flavoured milk/milkshakes (Trim, Calcitrim or Lite Blue Milk)
17. Fruit tinned in syrup, even lite syrup (Fruit tinned in juice/artificially sweetened)
18. Fried food (Boiled, grilled or baked food)
19. Frozen yoghurt (Ordinary yoghurt)
20. Fruit juice, except tomato juice and unsweetened blackcurrant juice (Fresh fruit)
21. Glucose (Artificial sweetener)
22. High fat crackers (Lower fat crackers)
23. Honey
24. Hot chips
25. Ice cream
26. Jam
27. Marmalade
28. Mayonnaise (Lite dressings/lite mayonnaise)
29. Muesli bars
30. Muffins
31. Nuts roasted in fat or oil (Dry roasted or raw nuts)
32. Pastries
33. Pies
34. Popcorn with butter or oil (Air popped popcorn)
35. Quiches (Crust-less quiches)
36. Reduced cream (Natural yoghurt)
37. Regular luncheon sausage (Low fat luncheon sausage)
38. Regular powdered drinks (e.g. Raro) (Water/Diet/Sugar free powdered drinks)
39. Regular salami (Low fat salami)
40. Regular sausages (Low fat sausages)
41. Regular soft drinks (Water/Diet soft drinks)
42. Rollups (Fresh fruit)
43. Sour cream (Natural yoghurt)
44. Sugar (Artificial sweetener)
45. Sweets/lollies
46. Syrups such as golden syrup, treacle, maple syrup (Artificial sweetener)
47. Toasted muesli and any other breakfast cereal with greater than 15g sugar per 100g cereal
48. Whole Milk (Trim, Calcitrim or Lite Blue Milk)
49. Yoghurt type products with greater than 10g sugar per 100g yoghurt

What's your food downfall? Your weakness? Tell us below!

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Your Comments

18 comment(s) so far
Justin

This list is garbage!!!!
22/12/2012 6:57:19 a.m.
nana akua bentum

thanks, i will try to avoid these food since some are my favourite
24/09/2012 10:23:35 p.m.
Jasmin

Since I'm very healthy and closer to being underweight than overweight, I'm just going to totally ignore this list and continue to eat my daily muesli bar, weekly quiche, and my once or twice a month chocolate bar. Its bollocks that these foods have no nutritional value, although if you're overweight you'd want to stay away from most of them and go with the bracketed alternatives.
6/03/2012 8:24:18 p.m.
Angela

yeah.... Id need more information before I cut most of those out.. for example personally Id rather have real sugar (in moderation) than anything with artificial sweetner and I prefer to avoid preservatives.. plus when they say muffins do they mean savoury ones too?
26/02/2012 5:38:41 p.m.
Emma

Everything on that list is in my house! haha
26/02/2012 4:01:40 p.m.
Alice

I dont understand why they would suggest artificial sweeteners and 'diet coke'. They are full of chemicals to make the flavour, when the sugar at least is more natural. You should never eat anything with the word 'artificial' in it.
25/02/2012 10:25:37 a.m.
steve

Id rather be fat and pissed then skinny and miserable

24/02/2012 8:11:48 p.m.
Livy

ICECREAM, god whenever there is a tub of ice cream in the frezzer, its normaly gone by the end of the week. when mum asked where its gone I normally blame my brother, when its usually me...
24/02/2012 7:37:41 p.m.
TC

artifical sweetener is a tragic alternative - there is so much research to the dier consequences of aspartame. A good sweetener is Stevia from a plant source.Just be a well informed consumer - google aspartame and stevia - your choice then :)
24/02/2012 6:41:08 p.m.
Courtney

Anything sweet! So I decided to quit sugar. 7 weeks down and still going strong.
24/02/2012 12:21:10 p.m.