Sunday, April 3, 2011

Real vs Canola

I've always been a huge mayonnaise fan. I mix mayo in ketchup to make dipping sauce and even put it on my burgers. I was brought up eating Hellmann's Real mayonnaise, and typically stick to tradition, but I recently decided to try Hellmann's Canola Mayonnaise. If the bottle had said low fat, I would have never made the switch. In my opinion switching from real to low fat anything usually means skipping out on taste with the addition of artificial chemicals. However, in this situation low fat is both healthier and better. Canola Mayo tastes exactly the same as real with the bonus of less calories and less cholesterol. 1 tablespoon of Real Hellmann's mayo has 90 calories with 100% of those calories coming from fat which include saturated fats. 1 tablespoon also contains 2% of your daily value of cholesterol, although 2% doesn't seem to be a large number when put into perspective 2% of your total daily value comes from only 1 tablespoon of food! Hellmann's Canola Mayo, on the other hand, contains no Cholesterol and contains half the calories per tablespoon as real mayonnaise. Also, instead of 90 calories from fat, canola mayo only contains 40 calories from fat with no saturated fats, making Canola mayo one lower calorie substitution that's worth the switch!

1 comment:

  1. Again, good information and something that many people might want to know. Aesthetically, the post would have been better if you used bullet points for the numeric information. Remember, large chunks of texts are hard to digest, so to speak. : )

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