Waitrose, sugar, scones and healthy eating

Article from Guardian last September suggesting that sugar, as such, isn't the problemit has lately been made out to be, but that old affliction called "eating too much".

Yes, and those scones sound rather yummy, having just made a batch of scones this afternoon, now I am tempted to try that recipe.

I would leave out the pumpkin seeds though.

I have somehow managed to mess up my password to Facebook, but if I can sort it out after I've had my dinner I will certainly add a comment.

Totally misleading. They are obviously leading people to believe that golden sugar is less unhealthy. It isn't.

Shocked tbh.

Pure, white and deadly. Sugar is BAD.

Pumpkin seeds GOOD.

And warm scones even better!

8.05g of sugar per scone

Modifying a scone is a year 7 activity. Why not just leave out the sugar?

That's not the point! It seems to me that Waitrose are giving out that golden sugar (raw) is better for you than white. It's bad public education.

I don't put any sugar at all into my scones when I make them, and never have! It's appalling really.

How much does each scone weigh? What proportion is 8.05g of the total. I understand what jess is getting at, and I agree that promoting scones as 'healthy' or 'healthier' because the sugar is pale brown is daft and wrong. However, scones aren't necessarily unhealthy with or without sugar. One could eat a scone or two every day and not be unhealthy. I think our usage of words like healthy has gone to pot and that's the real problem.

I hate hearing people parroting "healthy option" like some kind of mantra, just because for example there are carrots in it!
But good home baking, like home cooking is always going to be healthier than processed food especially when you don't know the half of what goes into it. Read the list of ingredients and preservatives and ponder!

So I have complained as per instructions.

Well said thatbags, and by the way I don't put sugar in mine either.

thatbags Obviously I didn't have the recipe but on the facebook page Waitrose said they used 30g of sugar for eight scones. Using a recipe that produces eight scones (size unknown) I ran it through a nutritional analysis programme. There would also be natural sugar in the carrots and sultanas to take into account.

As they said - it had an amber traffic light reading but I don't see why they have to include sugar at all.

Supermarkets are not going to encourage you NOT to buy something are they?

Taking out the sugar makes it 4.12g per scone.

30g sugar doesn't sound excessive to me for a batch of scones. It's a long time since I've made scones but I put sugar in my home-made bread. Not a lot, but some. My bread is fabulous. People worry too much. Sugar is the new fat.

Still, Waitrose shouldn't be advertising scones containing sugar as healthy. Hey, wait a minute! are they advertising them as healthier because they contain carrots and pumpkin seeds? That much is arguably true. Just going to check.....

Bread needs sugar, to make the yeast work. Scones do not.

It is unclear but it could be argued that scones containing carrot and sultanas are healthier than scones made only of flour, butter and baking powder (and a bit of sugar, which also comes from plants).

Actually, I've made bread without sugar many a time (depends on the yeast and the method) but I prefer it with some sugar.

Next thing we know, sultanas will be called unhealthy. Oh, wait...

The carrots and seeds make the scones slightly higher in fibre - that's all.

They don't say whether they use plain white or wholemeal flour.

Aren't there any vitamins and stuff in carrots and sultanas?

You'd need to eat a lot of scones