Waitrose, sugar, scones and healthy eating

There are grapes in wine and they're fruit so wine is healthy, jingl

I don't think I can do Facebook. It says 'enter' but it won't be clicked on!

Well, yes, if scones were you're only source

But they wouldn't be.

You'd need to eat a lot of scones

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

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.

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

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

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).

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

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.....

Taking out the sugar makes it 4.12g per scone.

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?

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

So I have complained as per instructions.

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!

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

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.

8.05g of sugar per scone

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

And warm scones even better!

Pumpkin seeds GOOD.

Pure, white and deadly. Sugar is BAD.

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.

I would leave out the pumpkin seeds though.