here’s why you shouldn’t give Princes to your kids anymore

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We have all eaten at least once in our lives a Prince de Lu, the perfect cake for gourmet breaks. Yet these cookies are very bad for your health, warns a doctor.

Industrial cakes are less healthy than homemade cakes, that’s for sure. But among these industrial cakes, not all are created equal. Recently “60 million consumers” pinned the worst supermarket cakes, the results were uplifting. Snacks that are too sweet – 2 Pim’s cakes contain no less than “12 grams of sugar” – too fatty, and even too salty for some. Not to mention those loaded with additives. To name but a few, the Kinder Délice, Lulu the bear or the famous Barquette.

Recently, it is another monument of our childhood that a doctor attacks. Dr. Jimmy Mohamed, famous for his decryptions of labels on Tiktok, points the Princes of Lu. Yes, you heard right, those chocolate-filled biscuits that we all dunked in a glass of milk one day. What exactly is wrong with these cakes?

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The composition of the Princes under the magnifying glass

These cakes are loaded with sugar, so far it’s no surprise. Each Prince would contain 1 tablespoon of sugar, indicates the specialist. And if not, what about the composition? Chocolate ? Not really. “Chocolate taste”, underlines the doctor, before adding “when you look at the composition, it is noted chocolate flavor”. It is actually about lean cocoa powder in minute quantities, less than 1 gram per cookie.
Then you have sugar, glucose syrup, very poor quality industrial sugar, cereals, palm oil which is, let’s remember, “a poor quality low-end oil that promotes cardiovascular disease and whose production is responsible for real deforestation”. On the package is indicated roughly “whole wheat”. This is good news, as Jimmy Mohammed asserts. “Whole wheat is a better quality wheat since it will be richer in fibre, it lowers the glycemic index. It is recommended to eat cereal products made from whole wheat”. Except that you just have to turn the package over to see that there is only 15% whole wheat flour, compared to 35% conventional flour. Disappointment.

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What alternatives to Lu?

Finally, the doctor says, “Obviously you are free to consume it. You are now informed.” Suffice to say that we have a moderate desire to buy them. Conclusion: always look at the composition. Princes aren’t the only unhealthy cakes. And there are of course alternatives, because you can’t always do everything at home. And out of the question with this article to make parents feel guilty. “60 million consumers” offered in “less worse” soft chocolate and walnut biscuits from Gerblé, as well as biscuits covered in dark chocolate Bio Village from Marque marque. We also conducted the survey: on the side of the brioches, some have a correct composition such as the DooWap “without additives”, nutriscore C, the Carrefour bio coated biscuits also have a good fiber content (32/100 on Yuka). In short, don’t be fooled, a brand is not necessarily a guarantee of quality and always take a look at the composition.

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