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Rice Cakes

Postby Melissa88 » Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:02 pm

On the list of acceptable foods, I see Trader Joe's Caramel Rice Cakes are okay. What is the difference between Trader Joe's Caramel Rice Cakes and Quaker Caramel Rice cakes. I just recently purchased Quaker [thinking they were okay] and I don't want to waste them.
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Re: Rice Cakes

Postby frozenveg » Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:54 am

Read the label, and the ingredient list in particular. If I remember correctly, the Quaker Caramel Rice Cakes have oil in them (possibly listed as lecithin, which is a kind of oil).

If you haven't seen or read Jeff Novick's help with reading labels, you've gotta check it out! It's available a lot of ways, including his DVDs.

http://jeffnovick.com/RD/Fast_Food_Vol_3.html (DVD on label reading)

But right now, this minute, here are a few talks on label reading:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtxvIHRkoAg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd9XnyNGXGs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u39uU7-lUc

I personally love his little series with his cousin, Sheila--here's one on labels:
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Re: Rice Cakes

Postby Katydid » Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:04 am

They also contain dairy.
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Re: Rice Cakes

Postby Melissa88 » Fri Mar 07, 2014 6:25 pm

Thanks for the responses...

The ingredients for Quaker:whole grain brown rice,corn, sugar, fructose, maltodextrin, natural flavor, caramel color, salt, soy lecithin.

Is the milk in one of these ingredients?
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Re: Rice Cakes

Postby Katydid » Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:31 am

Sorry, my bad. I was thinking of the Quaker Popped brand rice cakes that come in a bag like chips, not the ones in the tube. The ones in the bag contain milk.

However, look at the list of ingredients of the ones in the tube. Three of the first five ingredients are forms of sugar. Under JeffN's guidelines (if not Dr. McDougall's) those would go back on the shelf.

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Re: Rice Cakes

Postby frozenveg » Sat Mar 08, 2014 6:18 pm

Katydid wrote:Sorry, my bad. I was thinking of the Quaker Popped brand rice cakes that come in a bag like chips, not the ones in the tube. The ones in the bag contain milk.

However, look at the list of ingredients of the ones in the tube. Three of the first five ingredients are forms of sugar. Under JeffN's guidelines (if not Dr. McDougall's) those would go back on the shelf.

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And also, as I said before, lecithin, which is in the ingredient list, is oil, pure and simple--soybean oil. Here's a Wiki definition:
Lecithin is a generic term to designate any group of yellow-brownish fatty substances occurring in animal and plant tissues
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