WEBVTT - TNC Review: Supermarket Cookies

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<v Speaker 1>Do you enjoy a biscuit with a cup of tea

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<v Speaker 1>or pack a couple of sweet biscuits in your kid's lunchboxes?

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<v Speaker 1>Long gone are the days when a packet biscuit was

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<v Speaker 1>made with real butter and a soft, creamy filling. But

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<v Speaker 1>since they occupy about half an hole in the supermarkets,

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<v Speaker 1>it would appear there are still plenty of us who

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<v Speaker 1>enjoy a sweet biscuit regularly. So on today's episode of

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<v Speaker 1>the Nutrition Couch Product Review, we're taking a closer look

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<v Speaker 1>at two very popular cookies. I am Susy Burrow and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Lean Wood, and as two of austray Is leading

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<v Speaker 1>dieticians who specialize in evidence based nutrition, we bring you

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<v Speaker 1>the Nutrition Couch Product Review, a weekly chat on new

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<v Speaker 1>products and old favorites you can find in the supermarkets. So, Leahne,

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<v Speaker 1>are you a cheeky biscuit eater when you have a

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<v Speaker 1>cup of tea?

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<v Speaker 2>I must say, biscuits aren't really my sol food And

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<v Speaker 2>I for mane of my clients know that my sort

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<v Speaker 2>of philosophy around food is, you know, like bulk of

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<v Speaker 2>our diet is healthy foods, little sprinkle of solt foods.

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<v Speaker 2>So I must say my soul foods are more probably

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<v Speaker 2>chocolate or ice cream versus a biscuit. I can't go

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<v Speaker 2>past a good quality shortbread. But I'm not really biscuit

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<v Speaker 2>girl at heart. I had much rather a piece of

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<v Speaker 2>cheesecake or much rather as goop of ice cream.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I sort of torn on biscuits for a period

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<v Speaker 1>in my very early career when I was still studying.

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<v Speaker 1>I worked at Arnet's Biscuits, actually, when the factory had

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<v Speaker 1>just moved from the head office where it was in

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<v Speaker 1>Strautthfield and Sydney for many years. And I remember walking

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<v Speaker 1>around there with those memories of the amazing ice vovos

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<v Speaker 1>with their fluffy marshmallow and the beautiful shortbread, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>Scotch fingers, when biscuits were made with butter, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>going back quite a long time now, and I don't

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't grow up with biscuits. We didn't have them

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<v Speaker 1>in the house. It was certainly novel when I worked

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<v Speaker 1>to work at a biscuit factory and there were you know,

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<v Speaker 1>tim Tams and tiny teddies just everywhere. But I think

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<v Speaker 1>from a nostalgia perspective, a lot of people who perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>a getting a little bit older now, I definitely grew

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<v Speaker 1>up with that cup of tea and a plane sort

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<v Speaker 1>of milk coffee biscuit, and hence we went through that

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<v Speaker 1>phase where family assautas were everywhere, and indeed you and

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<v Speaker 1>I both worked in hospitals where that was served routinely

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<v Speaker 1>in hospital. Still is there you go and I you

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<v Speaker 1>know the you I do. When I'm looking at kids lunchboxes,

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<v Speaker 1>they have a lot of biscuits. You know, they have

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<v Speaker 1>often tiny teddies or shape, so I think, obviously they're

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<v Speaker 1>still consumer demand. But you know, the biggest category constituenties artists.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, Arnets have been the dominant sweet biscuit in

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<v Speaker 1>as long as I can remember. For a very brief

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<v Speaker 1>period of time, there was a company called Paradise Lights

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<v Speaker 1>that came out that were made with a better oil,

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<v Speaker 1>much lower in fat, that were quite palatable, but they

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<v Speaker 1>just got eaten up by the big groups in supermarket.

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<v Speaker 1>So I have today chosen an Arne's range to compare

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<v Speaker 1>to one of the newer groups who are producing healthier

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<v Speaker 1>biscuits as a position to try and improve the nutritional

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<v Speaker 1>profile of this category in the supermarket. So I've chosen

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<v Speaker 1>the Arnot's chocolate chip cookies minis because I feel these

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<v Speaker 1>are really marketed as school lunch box fillers. They're four

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<v Speaker 1>dollars for seven packs, so pretty inexpensive as a snack food.

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<v Speaker 1>First ingredient wheat flour, chocolate chips at twenty four percent

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<v Speaker 1>so sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, natural flavor, and mulcifier

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<v Speaker 1>sugar vegetable oil. Now, to the best of my knowledge,

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<v Speaker 1>on it's hat do and continue to use palm oil

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<v Speaker 1>as vegetable oil in their formulation. I'd love to be

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<v Speaker 1>corrected if I'm wrong, but I have a very strong

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<v Speaker 1>feeling that it is when they say vegetable oil, it

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<v Speaker 1>is palm, which is a heavily saturated fat with very

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<v Speaker 1>little positive we can say about it. Dessicated coconuts and

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<v Speaker 1>neck skim, milk powder, baking powder, salt, and multifier natural

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<v Speaker 1>flavor antioxidant. So if I see a food product land

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<v Speaker 1>that is made with wheat flour, sugar and palm oil,

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<v Speaker 1>generally my recommendation for people would be to run a mile.

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<v Speaker 1>So hence I'm not overly a big biscuit fan as

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<v Speaker 1>a day to day food choice, because to me, it

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<v Speaker 1>combines the three worst possible ingredients for our health in

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<v Speaker 1>a product that this is really marketed, not as an indulgence,

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<v Speaker 1>This is marketed as a daily addition to people's STF.

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<v Speaker 1>So per serve, what does the numbers say? It's a

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<v Speaker 1>twenty five gram sort of small bag. It's five hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and twenty kilogels, so just over one hundred calories per serve.

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<v Speaker 1>One point two grams of protein, which is as expected.

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<v Speaker 1>We wouldn't expect a sweet biscuit to contain much protein.

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<v Speaker 1>It is relatively high and fat, so it's six point

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<v Speaker 1>three grams of fat perserve, which takes it to correct

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<v Speaker 1>me if I'm wrong. Yes, twenty five percent fat, so

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<v Speaker 1>a high fat food saturated fat is over the recommended

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<v Speaker 1>less than three percent for a low saturated fat food

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<v Speaker 1>at almost fifteen percent, and that's coming from that palm

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<v Speaker 1>oil base. Seven point four grams of sugars perserve, but

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<v Speaker 1>almost thirty percent sugar in this products overall, no dietary

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<v Speaker 1>fiber are less than one gram sodium in significant given

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<v Speaker 1>that it's a sweet biscuit, so there is nothing in

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<v Speaker 1>here really I can say is nutritionally strong. It's made

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<v Speaker 1>from wheat, refined wheat flour, sugar, and palm oil in

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<v Speaker 1>they're better options. I don't think in this category there

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<v Speaker 1>are a lot of better options. I think it's an

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<v Speaker 1>indulgent food, a sw biscuit, whether it's a timtam, whether

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<v Speaker 1>it's a mint slice, whether it's a chop chip cookie.

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<v Speaker 1>So I don't buy them. I don't recommend my clients

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<v Speaker 1>buy them. And if that's your soul food, sure, but

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<v Speaker 1>to me, the risk is that they slip into everyday

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<v Speaker 1>diets as a food that's sort of not as bad

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<v Speaker 1>as I see it as a dietitian am I being

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<v Speaker 1>too harsh on the chop chip cookie?

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<v Speaker 2>Leian No, And let's not sugarcredit guys their chocchip cookies

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<v Speaker 2>despite being in a mini packet, and then you know,

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<v Speaker 2>marketed at kids, you're still putting chop chip cookies into

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<v Speaker 2>kids lunchboxes every day. It is what it is. So

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<v Speaker 2>it's really something that has to be an occasional food,

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<v Speaker 2>not an everyday choice. And I feel like because it's

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<v Speaker 2>in a smaller packet, parents sort of think, oh, it's

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<v Speaker 2>just a little bit, it's not that bad. But there's

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<v Speaker 2>nothing nutritional in this And if you want to put

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<v Speaker 2>a treat into your kids lunchbox. Make it once or

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<v Speaker 2>twice a week, don't make it on a daily basis.

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's probably the only positive thing we can

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<v Speaker 2>say about this. Yes, I like that it's portion sized,

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<v Speaker 2>but still it's quite a lot of calories and quite

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of fat, and you know, the bad type

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<v Speaker 2>of fat as well. Mind you, it's not like it's

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<v Speaker 2>good quality fat. I'm actually quite high sugar, like seven

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<v Speaker 2>point four ground of sugar for a little mini packet.

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<v Speaker 2>It's too high for our kids. So you know, if

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<v Speaker 2>an adult was eating this because they genuinely loved chop

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<v Speaker 2>chip cookies, perhaps this is a good option for an

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<v Speaker 2>adult because it is small and it is portion controlled.

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<v Speaker 2>I do like that, you know they're not buying an

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<v Speaker 2>entire packet of biscuits and going to smash eight cookies

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<v Speaker 2>at once. You know they got little portion controlled bags.

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<v Speaker 2>But I think it really is marketeds as children sort

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<v Speaker 2>of lunch box snack options, So we can't really beat

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<v Speaker 2>around the bushes. It's it's not a healthy product. We

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<v Speaker 2>definitely don't recommend it.

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<v Speaker 1>No, and I do when I'm at the park with

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<v Speaker 1>kids and I see kids munching on tiny teddies and

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<v Speaker 1>small packets of biscuits. I sort of think, really, like,

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<v Speaker 1>there's so many healthier options out there. I just recently

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<v Speaker 1>did a trolley this week and went into the health

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<v Speaker 1>section and looked at the packeted snack foods for kids,

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<v Speaker 1>and there's a growing range of very palatable snacks which

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<v Speaker 1>are made with better oil, better types of carbohydrate, more vegetables. Like, really,

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<v Speaker 1>I just think do better on its, Like, you're the

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<v Speaker 1>category leader. There's a lot of innovation you could do

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<v Speaker 1>to make some healthier choices for the market, and they're

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<v Speaker 1>constantly underwhelming in terms of the initiatives to improve the

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<v Speaker 1>food supply because ultimately, big companies like this where affect

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<v Speaker 1>a whole category and supermarket are pumping a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>palm oil into the food supply and a whole lot

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<v Speaker 1>of sugar. And I would say to reach out to

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<v Speaker 1>them do better, because you have a responsibility as a

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<v Speaker 1>category leader to do that, And until there's more push

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<v Speaker 1>from supermarkets for healthier products, we won't see those changes.

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<v Speaker 1>So the only way we can talk is by not

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<v Speaker 1>buying them. So yeah, I really think as a company,

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<v Speaker 1>they could do a whole lot better in the sweet category.

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<v Speaker 1>So that leads me to a really interesting product that

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<v Speaker 1>has started to filter through supermarket. You may have seen

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<v Speaker 1>this brand in cereal. Originally they had some low sugar

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<v Speaker 1>icy poles and ice blocks. That was one of their

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<v Speaker 1>first products, and then recently they've had Breakfast Cereal, a

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<v Speaker 1>chocolate nutspread and these cookies. Now there are some of

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<v Speaker 1>the cookies for kids. It's the no nastiest project better cookies.

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<v Speaker 1>I've chosen the adult eighty percent less sugar, but there

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<v Speaker 1>is also leanne a fifty percent less sugar which has

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<v Speaker 1>some packaging for children. So some characters that you can

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<v Speaker 1>find in coals. This is the product found in woolies.

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<v Speaker 1>I think they're also found in coals. Actually there's three varieties.

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<v Speaker 1>They're five dollars for seven, so only slightly more expensive.

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<v Speaker 1>The first ingredient is wheat flour and then they're using

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<v Speaker 1>a no added sugar dark chop chip at nineteen percent,

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<v Speaker 1>which is made with cocoa, solid sweetness, natural sweetness erythrotol

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<v Speaker 1>stevia polydextros to a little bit of sugar soy lefuce

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<v Speaker 1>and natural flavor and then some other sweetness again, so

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<v Speaker 1>erythrotol isomalt stevia, so all natural sweetness, sunflower oil rather

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<v Speaker 1>than palm inulin, some sugar, regular sugar, whole like powder,

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<v Speaker 1>golden syrup, natural flavor, salt, raising agents. So this is

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<v Speaker 1>a processed food. So again we're not saying it's good,

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<v Speaker 1>but what we are saying is nutritionally. When we take

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<v Speaker 1>a look at the numbers, there are vast differences. And

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<v Speaker 1>again it's not using anywhere near the amount of added

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<v Speaker 1>sugar or palm oil that you're finding in the aren't

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<v Speaker 1>It's range. So this is a twenty gram serve. It's

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<v Speaker 1>coming in three thirty one killer jewels, which is about

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<v Speaker 1>what is that lean sixty seventy eighty just eighty calories

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<v Speaker 1>per serve, so less than one hundred similar levels of

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<v Speaker 1>protein one point three. The fat is still twenty percent fat,

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<v Speaker 1>so this is not a low fat product, but the

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<v Speaker 1>saturated fat is a third of the amount in the

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<v Speaker 1>Arnet's variety of five grams. The overall carbohydrate is ten

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<v Speaker 1>grams per served, but the sugars are low, like one

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<v Speaker 1>point one grams of sugars per serve versus seven and

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's five percent sugar versus thirty in the

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<v Speaker 1>Arnet's variety and a bit of fiber two point one grams.

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<v Speaker 1>So for me, again, I'm not saying this is a

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<v Speaker 1>healthy product that I would be encouraging people to add

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<v Speaker 1>to the diet. But if I was choosing to put

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<v Speaker 1>a snack food in my kid's lunchbox that was sweet,

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<v Speaker 1>still tasted good in a portion control, this is the

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<v Speaker 1>one I would absolutely buy over the full strength version.

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<v Speaker 1>And I do buy these cookie which is how I

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<v Speaker 1>came familiar with them, because I saw them in supermarket

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<v Speaker 1>and was like, wow, that's a lot less sugar eighty percent.

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<v Speaker 1>What do they taste like? Because ultimately we can make

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<v Speaker 1>foods healthier, but if they don't taste good, no one's

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<v Speaker 1>going to eat them. And the kids like them. But

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<v Speaker 1>I've said before on the Potti Land, I never put

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<v Speaker 1>a whole pack of the snack food in the twins lunchbox.

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<v Speaker 1>Now they're six, I put half. So I'll open one

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<v Speaker 1>of these bags and give a few cookies along with

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<v Speaker 1>a savory snap. And I've always found that's a really

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<v Speaker 1>smart way financially to use snack food, but also to

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<v Speaker 1>give them a taste of something tasty so they're not

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<v Speaker 1>deprived without putting what I would define as real rubbish

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<v Speaker 1>in there, so you won't see me putting tiny teddies

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<v Speaker 1>or corn chips with MSG or really processed snacks.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'll use a few of these.

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<v Speaker 1>To even out the lunch box. And I think good

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<v Speaker 1>on them because for many years now Arnats have been

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<v Speaker 1>in a position of doing something decent with their formulations

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<v Speaker 1>to improve the fat ratios, to help reduce the sugar

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<v Speaker 1>content overall, as big cereal companies like Kelloggs have been

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<v Speaker 1>doing for many years, and that has a profound effect

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<v Speaker 1>over consumption in Australia. When a company commits to taking

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<v Speaker 1>sugar out of the food supply in their formulations, because

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<v Speaker 1>we all have less sugar, we don't notice and they

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<v Speaker 1>can manage to do it. But Arnot's have remained staunch

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<v Speaker 1>a not doing that for twenty thirty years. So I

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<v Speaker 1>think good on this group, the No Nastiest Project, which

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<v Speaker 1>is an Australian group for pushing them to make a

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<v Speaker 1>healthier variety of sweet biscuit, which should have been done

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<v Speaker 1>years ago by the market leader.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I like them and I agree like I think,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, if you're going to buy a kids a treat,

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's great. I think keeps the portions more

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<v Speaker 2>and these like for the cost of it it's a

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<v Speaker 2>dollar extra, it's still less than a dollar per packet,

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<v Speaker 2>so it's actually a really you know, I think for

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<v Speaker 2>most families, quite an affordable snaption. It's not like it's

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<v Speaker 2>you know, like two three, four dollars like some of

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<v Speaker 2>the quote unquote healthier adult based snack choices they have four, five,

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<v Speaker 2>six seven dollars a serving. This is less than a dollar,

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<v Speaker 2>so it's actually, you know, it's quite affordable for a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of families. It's got you know, so much less sugar,

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<v Speaker 2>so much less saturate about it's got more than double

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<v Speaker 2>the amount of dietary fiber. There's many positives in this

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<v Speaker 2>compared to the to the Arnets brands. So I agree

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<v Speaker 2>with you. I think Arnets need to step up to

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<v Speaker 2>do better. We're clearly not getting an ARNT sponsorship on

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<v Speaker 2>this podcast anytime, Susie, but I do hope that our

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<v Speaker 2>listeners appreciate our honesty and our transparency.

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<v Speaker 1>We like by the way, they're good. Well, we have

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<v Speaker 1>to be, you know, and that's why we here are

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<v Speaker 1>because if we don't call it out, who will And

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<v Speaker 1>Let's be honest, as I said, all ninety percent of

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<v Speaker 1>the biscuits in the supermarket I'll come from ARNT. So

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<v Speaker 1>there is no reason why they couldn't have come up

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<v Speaker 1>with a formulation like this other than they don't need

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<v Speaker 1>to and it's cost. It's expensive to formulate new products

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<v Speaker 1>and have innovation like this. But definitely land, you go overseas,

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<v Speaker 1>you go to the UK, you go to America, there

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<v Speaker 1>are millions of new formulations of food products. It's just

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<v Speaker 1>we're small here and Arnets haven't had a push. So

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<v Speaker 1>you know, good on this company for doing it. And

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<v Speaker 1>the truth is, you know, listeners, we have to support

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<v Speaker 1>these companies. If we want healthier foods in supermarket, if

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<v Speaker 1>we want Willies and Calls to keep stocking, then we've

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<v Speaker 1>got to buy them because otherwise they'll get eliminated and

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<v Speaker 1>deleted and again we'll just get it replaced with other

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<v Speaker 1>crappy supermarket brand that they make cheap or continue to

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<v Speaker 1>have the low price point, poorer quality food. So if

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<v Speaker 1>you want better quality food than the super market, you've

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<v Speaker 1>got to be prepared to pay a little bit more

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<v Speaker 1>for it or they don't survive. And we've seen that

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<v Speaker 1>time and time again with really strong products nutritionally, but

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<v Speaker 1>people don't buy them because they're a bit more expensive

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<v Speaker 1>and they get deleted. So you've got to support a

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<v Speaker 1>companies like this who are trying to innovate and create

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<v Speaker 1>healthier products. So you know, as I said, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>generally buy sweet biscuits as part of my shop and

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<v Speaker 1>less of course timtams are occasionally on a half price

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<v Speaker 1>sale like anyone. But in the case of these, these

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<v Speaker 1>are one of the healthier snacks that I do include

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<v Speaker 1>in my kids lunchbox, and that's not sponsored. I just

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<v Speaker 1>had noticed that they were making them and thought, wow,

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<v Speaker 1>that is a really great product that we've really needed

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<v Speaker 1>for a long time in supermarkets. So well done to

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<v Speaker 1>the No Nastis project and support them if you can,

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<v Speaker 1>because they're an a strained company and we need to

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<v Speaker 1>give them that support if we want them to survive.

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<v Speaker 2>And don't you support them. Tell you know your friends,

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<v Speaker 2>your family, take it to your mum's group, take it

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<v Speaker 2>to your school kids' friends. Let them know about them

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<v Speaker 2>as well, because the more we can share the words

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<v Speaker 2>about better products, the better it is for our kids.

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<v Speaker 2>Adults can eat these as well. There's no problem with

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<v Speaker 2>adults eating them. And also, you know, it's everybody together

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<v Speaker 2>supporting these smaller companies, which we want to do, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>in terms of people that make coca cola and you know,

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<v Speaker 2>cocoa pops and that sort of thing. That's not what

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<v Speaker 2>we want in the bulk of the shopping aisles at

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<v Speaker 2>the supermarket. So we really do want to support these,

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<v Speaker 2>So spread the word, tell your friends, take it to

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<v Speaker 2>your mum's group, and while you're at it, let them

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<v Speaker 2>know where you heard about it on the great new podcast,

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<v Speaker 2>The Nutrition Couch.

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<v Speaker 1>And they do have also a cereal I haven't tried that.

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<v Speaker 1>They've got the icy poles as well, and also a

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<v Speaker 1>half sugar ntella type product, so another product that's basically

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<v Speaker 1>got a base of palm oil. So definitely, if you're

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<v Speaker 1>interested in your kids' health, it's a good commitment to

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<v Speaker 1>make to choose some of these products that are lower

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<v Speaker 1>in sugar and made with better quality oil. All right lyam,

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