The Krispy Kreme donuts company and Twix are hardly known as health food companies, in fact, they’re pretty much the exact opposite.
As the old Albert Einstein saying goes, “it takes a touch of courage and a lot of genius to move in the opposite direction,” and that’s exactly what these two companies have been doing in an era where many companies are working to provide healthier options to their customers.
That doesn’t necessarily make it a good idea, however, as the ingredients list for these “phood” items demonstrates so clearly below.
According to a report from Fox 2 News Detroit, these two companies are set to unleash their latest, most sugar-packed creation: donuts stuffed with candy bars, and they’re only expected to be available for two weeks.
Krispy Kreme, Twix Team Up for Assault on America’s Blood Sugar Levels
As noted in the article, there are three new donuts from Krispy Kreme that come with Twix bars either cut up and sprinkled on top, or stuffed inside of the donut itself.
The three varieties are the mini caramel donut, which starts with an original Krispy Kreme donut and is dipped in chocolate icing and topped with Twix. This donut comes in at 140 calories.
The next item is the caramel cookie bar donut, which has 530 calories and is dipped in chocolate icing with caramel and chocolate, and topped with pieces of Twix candy. It is also stuffed with a full-sized Twix cookie bar and chocolate cream.
The third donut is the caramel cookie filled original, which has 320 calories and includes a salted caramel filling dipped in chocolate icing, topped with Twix pieces and a caramel drizzle.
The donuts also come in mini sizes. You can check out the full menu by clicking here.
Should You Eat Krispy Kreme and Twix’s New Donuts?
From billboards to TV commercials, it seems like the world conspires against our healthy diets on a daily basis with advertisements for foods like these.
Whether you actually want to eat them is up to you, but be forewarned that these donuts contain ingredients that are often manufactured in a lab before being grown in a field; ingredients that are likely doused with considerable amounts of Roundup, the controversial herbicide that has been linked to cancer by a long list of studies.
Consider the traditional glazed donut from Krispy Kreme, which is loaded with likely GMO ingredients (the company does not advertise its products as GMO free or organic by any stretch of the imagination), hydrogenated oils, and a considerable amount of sugar that likely comes from GMO sugar beets, since it’s not cane sugar and it’s not organic (over 90% of sugar beets are genetically modified in the U.S. according to the most recent figures).
Like most fast food companies, Krispy Kreme does not share its nutritional information and ingredients, but a closer look at a PDF shows the following laundry list of ingredients for its new Twix donuts (it really seems like they made this list extra small on purpose so it can’t be easily disseminated):
If you’re using your phone and don’t have a microscope to read this text, I will share some of the lowlights of this brew of unhealthy additives and ingredients:
Polysorbate 60, a preservative, corn syrup solids (likely from GMO corn and laced with glyphosate), soybean oil (likely from GMO soy and also likely laced with glyphosate, PGPR (an emulsifier often used in chocolate), artificial flavors and modified corn starch, and artificial flavor.
While these donuts have some ingredients like palm sugar and wheat flour that could loosely be considered as real food, I personally choose not to classify foods like these as real food because I don’t want to eat them with any sort of consistency.
I might have them on a road trip on my way to a long hike, but that’s it, and oftentimes I regret eating them unless I’m in the best possible mood or truly, ravenously hungry.
If you do want to try these donuts, before to take plenty of high quality digestive enzymes like these ones, drink plenty of water and perhaps organic green teas to help boost your metabolism to break it down faster, and be sure to get plenty of exercise, especially walking, rebounding on a mini trampoline, or similar exercises to keep your blood flowing and your internal organs working to detoxify your system from all of the aforementioned junk.
After all, you don’t want to “wear” that donut — most people eat these foods for a cheap and satisfying jolt to the taste buds, but the consequences could be dire for your health and weight.
For me personally, I’d much rather go to the local bakery or buy organic ice cream and baked goods when I do decide to indulge my sweet tooth every once in a great while, and oftentimes I don’t eat any desserts unless I’ve been working really hard or exercising really hard prior — at least in my ideal mind, anyway.
For now, be sure to approach these donuts with extreme caution, and share this list with a friend if they think these donuts are harmless because we deserve better ingredients in my personal opinion than GMO foods, Roundup-laced grains and hydrogenated oils.
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