Speaker 1: When you have your toast in the morning, what sort
Speaker 1: of spreads do you like? Because we know that jam
Speaker 1: is very popular because recently when we reviewed some nutspreads,
Speaker 1: we had a lot of questions come through on jam.
Speaker 1: But the truth is that it can be pretty high
Speaker 1: in sugar, and even though we love it, particularly the kids,
Speaker 1: including my little boy Gussie, it is hard to find
Speaker 1: a healthier version. So today LeeAnne and I go in
Speaker 1: quest of one of the best jams in the supermarket
Speaker 1: for your breakfast spreads. Hi, I'm Susy Barrel Norman Wood,
Speaker 1: who was two of Ustray's leaving dieticians. We bring you
Speaker 1: the Nutrition Couch Product Review, a weekly chat on new
Speaker 1: products and old favorites you can find in supermarkets. Leanne,
Speaker 1: are you a jam girl?
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I've just never I'm just not a jam girl. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't really have an explanation for it.
Speaker 3: I'm just not really a jam person.
Speaker 1: I remember my dad used to have, like in the eighties,
Speaker 1: like Fruits of the Forest, like I excel. I used
Speaker 1: to quite like it. I go through phases. One of
Speaker 1: my little boys loves jam and if any he says,
Speaker 1: it's so funny He's like, we've got a new jum jam,
Speaker 1: and if we've got it, he'll like go crazy for it.
Speaker 1: So I actually bought him some the other day, and
Speaker 1: I none of the ones we're reviewing actually, so I
Speaker 1: might change my purchase, and I don't mind it actually
Speaker 1: on a little bit of grainy toast, particularly before I
Speaker 1: go for a run. But it's not my sort of default.
Speaker 1: This is a bit of a special appearance in my
Speaker 1: cupboard at the moment. But I do know a lot
Speaker 1: of people love jams, so I really like the ones
Speaker 1: you've chosen, actually, because I haven't seen some of these soap,
Speaker 1: let's get straight into it. We've got three different ones today.
Speaker 1: So the first one is the Bonna Mamma strawberry spread
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty five grams that retails for six
Speaker 1: dollars thirty five And wowlyan hasn't a bit of fruit
Speaker 1: and sugar gone up in price for its spread?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a bigger jar, to be fair, Like
Speaker 3: three thirty five's a larger jar than standard. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it's definitely like all spreads, I think, even nut butters
Speaker 3: and stuff. You know, you're talking six eight dollars sometimes crazy,
Speaker 3: I think spreads in general have really gone up. I
Speaker 3: bought a big thing and vegimite did the day. I
Speaker 3: nearly fell over it.
Speaker 1: How it's veggimite is through the roof of some salt
Speaker 1: and beigrit vitamins. But I think this is a good
Speaker 1: to remind you if you can make your own jam.
Speaker 1: If there's never been a better time than when food
Speaker 1: disgusting so much in Australia. And the berries are quite cheap,
Speaker 1: so maybe that's the goal for the new year. All right,
Speaker 1: let's have a look at what is in here. I'll
Speaker 1: start with the ingredients. So this one starts with strawberries,
Speaker 1: which is always very positive in a jam lam because
Speaker 1: you find many jams. Actually sugar is the first ingredient
Speaker 1: and this is surprisingly high at sixty seven percent strawberries,
Speaker 1: which is actually great, followed by sugar because that is
Speaker 1: how you make jam. Black currant juice, concentrated lemon juice
Speaker 1: and a gelling agent. And it is a product that
Speaker 1: comes from France. It's pretty clean. I have to say
Speaker 1: it's one of the best labels I've seen. Let's have
Speaker 1: a look at the nutritionals. I'll go per serving, should
Speaker 1: I twenty grams a tablespoon, because you'd use a tablespoon
Speaker 1: a jam when you.
Speaker 3: Pers saving would be good because they're all twenty grams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll go twenty grams, okay, So per serve, it's
Speaker 1: about forty calories uncher Shitz one hundred and thirty eight
Speaker 1: killer jewels. Actually that's I've given it too many. It's
Speaker 1: they're about thirty five calories per serve, less than a
Speaker 1: gram of protein as you would expect, less than one
Speaker 1: gram of fat as you would expect. Jam doesn't have
Speaker 1: any fat in it, seven point eight grams of carbohydrate,
Speaker 1: all of which are sugars. So that's almost two tea
Speaker 1: spoons per tablespoon, So about fifty percent as you'd expect
Speaker 1: from that label, coming from concentrated sugars. A mix of
Speaker 1: the fruit and then the added sugar. Now this says
Speaker 1: actually it's got a claim of more fruit reduced sugar,
Speaker 1: which is very interesting. So it would suggest it's kind
Speaker 1: of the healthier version of this French brand. And I
Speaker 1: have to be honestly, and I quite like it because
Speaker 1: it's got a lot of fruit in it. I reckon
Speaker 1: it tastes pretty great. It's got less added sugar they're
Speaker 1: reporting than the normal version or the average jam, so
Speaker 1: it's not a low sugar product. I probably myself would
Speaker 1: be giving advice to people to not spread a tablespoon
Speaker 1: in one's here. I'd be trying to get it down
Speaker 1: to about a tea spoon, because if you're down to
Speaker 1: a tea spoon, you're only on a couple of grams
Speaker 1: of sugar. And if you love jam, that would be
Speaker 1: the best way in my mind to enjoy it, particularly
Speaker 1: if you can then add a bit of protein to it,
Speaker 1: whether it's cottage, g or ricotta, or even some nutspread
Speaker 1: with it and do a good old peanut butter and jelly.
Speaker 1: But I like this product. I think if a jams,
Speaker 1: it's one of the best I've seen.
Speaker 2: And that's it.
Speaker 3: Like we're not over here being like, yep, this is
Speaker 3: a great product. Everyone go buy it. Like it's a jam,
Speaker 3: it's a high sugar spread. We'll I've got a sugarcoated
Speaker 3: pun intended. But I think that if you're out to
Speaker 3: buy a jam, and your family loves it all you
Speaker 3: really enjoy it, this is probably a better option than
Speaker 3: a lot of the other jams on the market, and
Speaker 3: you're right, it's a higher fruit content, like sixty seven
Speaker 3: percent fruit in a jam is actually quite high. And
Speaker 3: yes it's higher sugar, but nowhere near some of the
Speaker 3: other sugar contents of some of the other jams. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I agree. I like this in terms of jams. I
Speaker 3: think it's a better option than other jams on the market.
Speaker 3: And you know, I rarely eat jam on toast, but
Speaker 3: if I did, I definitely would be putting it with butter,
Speaker 3: which I think is quite amusing. A lot of Dietisian
Speaker 3: would eat jam and butter together, but for me, it's
Speaker 3: just too sweet, so I need something to cut through it.
Speaker 3: And I actually think from a blood sugar control perspective,
Speaker 3: the fat would work quite well with this, or the
Speaker 3: protein would quite well with this to slow down the
Speaker 3: absorption of the sugars as well. So pairing it with
Speaker 3: a bit of fat all protein is actually probably a
Speaker 3: good option, but definitely from a health perspective. Like Susie mentioned,
Speaker 3: some cotta cheese rocotta from that protein would be a
Speaker 3: much better option from a health perspective, but I don't
Speaker 3: mind it. I think in terms of all jams, it's
Speaker 3: probably one of the better ones on the market, so
Speaker 3: thumbs up from ajam perspective. From the nutrition couch.
Speaker 1: Today, it's right up out jam.
Speaker 2: So we're recording this very late and we get a
Speaker 2: bit ridiculously silly. We haven't had any alcohol, so forgive
Speaker 2: us all rush, let's get serious now. Next one, Coal's
Speaker 2: strawberry jam four hundred and eighty grams two bucks, so
Speaker 2: very budget friendly, which can also be someone a concern,
Speaker 2: I guess in terms of quality, and a quick scanner
Speaker 2: ingredient list would suggest as much, with the first ingredient
Speaker 2: being glucose fructose syrup, so basically it's not fruit based.
Speaker 2: It's got added sugar, a syrup at that, which is
Speaker 2: very concentrated sweetness forty percent strawberries, so about a third
Speaker 2: less than you're getting from the French product. Followed by
Speaker 2: more sugar and cicitric acid which is simply used just
Speaker 2: to keep it fresh and the acidity right in the container,
Speaker 2: and a nice fresh product. It's actually made in Poland,
Speaker 2: which is a bit random.
Speaker 3: That's really random. They can't make that in Australia. That
Speaker 3: is so sugar and jam don't why we're getting it
Speaker 3: from Poland?
Speaker 1: Random? Okay, so per serve at twenty grams again is
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty killer jules, which is about sixty calories,
Speaker 1: so almost double what we're getting from the French product.
Speaker 1: It is zero point two grams of protein, so minimal, say,
Speaker 1: very little fat carbohydrate, thirteen point two grams and ten
Speaker 1: point two grams of sugar per serve, so that is
Speaker 1: a hefty, you know, whack of concentrated sugars you're getting
Speaker 1: from that product, more than two tea spoons in a
Speaker 1: hit of twenty grams. So you know, if I'm buying jam,
Speaker 1: I want it to be fruit basically, and this has
Speaker 1: not only reasonably low amounts of strawberries, but the first
Speaker 1: ingredient is just a terrible concentrated, poor quality glucose fructose syrup,
Speaker 1: which is just rubbish really. So it's a big thumbs
Speaker 1: down from me on this product, even though it's only
Speaker 1: two dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not recommending it. It's less than half of
Speaker 3: it as fruit, like forty percent sugar. That's more than
Speaker 3: half of it is basically sugar. So although we know
Speaker 3: jam is sugar, we would ideally prefer to have more
Speaker 3: fruit in there, so at least you're getting some sort
Speaker 3: of nutrients and a little bit of fibread in there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, thumbs down from the nutrition couch today.
Speaker 1: And we should say we don't like syrups because they're concentrated.
Speaker 1: And this is the reason that dieticians will get frustrated
Speaker 1: with concentrated fruit products, whether it's fruit straps or that
Speaker 1: roll up kind of product, because even though it says
Speaker 1: one hundred percent fruit, it's concentrated, and there's nothing more
Speaker 1: concentrated than a syrup. So it's particularly that's even for me,
Speaker 1: worse than sugar itself, to be honest, because a heavily
Speaker 1: engineered product. So that's really disappointing, all right. The third
Speaker 1: product is a very interesting brand. It's the Natvia Strawberry
Speaker 1: fruits spread. Now, these products pop up in supermarket as
Speaker 1: low as sugar alternatives, and there's some really good options
Speaker 1: out there. I actually haven't seen this one, and I'll
Speaker 1: be interested to know if it's in the health food
Speaker 1: section or the regular section of the soup market. It's
Speaker 1: two forty gram so quite a small skinny jar at
Speaker 1: six dollars, so you are paying for a healthier product.
Speaker 1: But certainly Natvia is one of the best for the
Speaker 1: sweetener brands around and when you're looking at the nutritionals,
Speaker 1: they tend to be much better in terms of nutritional
Speaker 1: panel and sugar through it. So let's have a look.
Speaker 1: First ingredient strawberries, leyand so that is top march from
Speaker 1: us straight away, because we want a jam that's got
Speaker 1: fruit in it, so it's almost as much as the
Speaker 1: French product of fifty five percent. Instead of then using
Speaker 1: sugar itself, they're adding some fruit juice in there, apple
Speaker 1: and backcurrent, and then they're adding the natural sweetener blend,
Speaker 1: which is a erythritol and stevr together, which is the
Speaker 1: formula for natvia. So that's where they're getting the sweetness
Speaker 1: with a lot less sugar. Overall, there's a thickener in
Speaker 1: there to thicken it up a little bit given they're
Speaker 1: not using sugar so much in processing, a stabilizer some
Speaker 1: cheer seeds actually, which would give it a lovely flavor
Speaker 1: i'd imagine hasn't said how much, though, but chia through
Speaker 1: a jam gives it a lovely flavor if you get enough,
Speaker 1: so natural flavor city regulator preservative. So again being a
Speaker 1: more processed product, they do add a few things in
Speaker 1: to keep it more stable. Let's have a look at
Speaker 1: the nutritionals, so per twenty grams serve, again we're looking
Speaker 1: very low, just eight calories thirty three killo jeels, so
Speaker 1: a smidgen of what you're getting from the other product.
Speaker 1: So this is a truly low calorie form of jam,
Speaker 1: very little protein or fat as it would expect in
Speaker 1: the carbohydrate one point four grams total one point four
Speaker 1: grams of sugars. So you can see the profound difference.
Speaker 1: This has got a tenth of the sugars in it,
Speaker 1: given that it's a more engineered product, so a low
Speaker 1: calorie version of jam. Now, I have not tried this product.
Speaker 1: Have you tried it? Land, No, I haven't.
Speaker 3: I've had clients who have had, funnily enough, on hot
Speaker 3: Cross bunds, hot.
Speaker 1: Cross buns and jam bit sheeky. It's a double sugar,
Speaker 1: it's a double carbon. They're soul food of choice. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they quite like it, they say it's quite good. As
Speaker 1: I said, I'm not a jam person, so I haven't
Speaker 1: tried any of the ones today. But funnily enough, it's
Speaker 1: fifty five percent of straight ingredients, so we're not getting
Speaker 1: it from poland, which is a positive.
Speaker 3: But it is quite expensive, Like you're paying six dollars,
Speaker 3: you're paying three times the amount of the home brand jam.
Speaker 3: It is, I would say better nutritional leaders a specific
Speaker 3: a specifically formulated product. I wouldn't say that it's a
Speaker 3: clean ingredient lisp, but from a sugar and an energy
Speaker 3: density perspective, it's far better off. Particularly if you're somebody
Speaker 3: who eats a lot of jam, if he's somebody that
Speaker 3: just occasionally has it as a bit of a craving,
Speaker 3: or you're using it on toast before a big gym workout,
Speaker 3: we want the carbohydrate, we want the sugar. If the
Speaker 3: goal is to fuel your workout session, we actually want
Speaker 3: the sugar. So I'd be more than happy with my
Speaker 3: clients having a piece of regular white toast with some
Speaker 3: regular high sugar strawberry jam. If they're going into a
Speaker 3: big leg dawn, they're going to a big CrossFit session,
Speaker 3: or they're about to run a half marathon or something,
Speaker 3: I'm more than happy for them to have the normal staff.
Speaker 3: But this if your goal is fat loss, if you're
Speaker 3: in resistant, if you've got diabetes, if you're trying to
Speaker 3: lose some weight, if you regularly have jam, it probably
Speaker 3: is a better option for your pantry, particularly if you
Speaker 3: struggle to stick to about a t spoon, like Susie said,
Speaker 3: because a tablespoon is kind of pushing you over the edge,
Speaker 3: particularly if you're using a tablespoon per slice of bread,
Speaker 3: because most people would have two slices of bread, so
Speaker 3: you're getting in upwards of twenty grams of added sugar,
Speaker 3: which is kind of like your max for the day.
Speaker 3: So if you're someone that really likes jam, this is
Speaker 3: probably a better option for you. And it's actually got
Speaker 3: a very small amount of cheer seeds. I would say
Speaker 3: it's right down the ingredient list, and the fat content
Speaker 3: is less than zero point one, so you're not really
Speaker 3: getting much cheer at all in there. I'm just gonna say,
Speaker 3: maybe that adds to the price point, but not.
Speaker 1: Really for me. This product's perfect for anyone with glucose
Speaker 1: regulation issues, for someone with type two diabetes and shown
Speaker 1: resistance pcoas someone who has cravings, anyone who knows they're
Speaker 1: sort of sensitive and are driven to seek out more
Speaker 1: sweet food, This would absolutely be the product that I
Speaker 1: would suggest, particularly if you're a jam lover. You know,
Speaker 1: as I said, you know for kids or going to sport,
Speaker 1: or if you love, you know, a fruity jam and
Speaker 1: you really enjoy it, I wouldn't be pushing that product,
Speaker 1: but fair as I said, anyone who really needs to
Speaker 1: keep their sugar intake low or wanting to and still
Speaker 1: loves their jam, I would absolutely recommend this product, and
Speaker 1: if not, I'd probably go for the French one, which
Speaker 1: has got a really high proportion, but use it in
Speaker 1: much smaller amounts. You know, often I'm saying this to
Speaker 1: clients Y and I get their food diaries and they're
Speaker 1: having like a tablespoon of peanut butter on a slice
Speaker 1: of toast. It's too much. You got to spread thin.
Speaker 1: You know, A teaspoon is more than enough. You don't
Speaker 1: need a tablespoon. Like, the more you have, the more
Speaker 1: you want, particularly with sweet food. So you got to
Speaker 1: practice enjoying small amounts and saving it rather than going
Speaker 1: for big, heavy amounts. Now, save that for when you
Speaker 1: go into a high tea and having some fresh scones
Speaker 1: and cream and jam, and then when you're at home,
Speaker 1: practice spreading thinly and that'll go a long way in
Speaker 1: stopping the cravings for more and more sweet food over time.
Speaker 1: All right man. Well, that brings us to the end
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