Taste Test Tuesday: Girl Scout Cookies!
I am only now tasting the new Cinna-Spins, which come in 100 calorie packs. Of all the Girl Scout cookie options this year, these are the cookies that won lowest in calories and fat and saturated fat.
How do they taste? I really liked them! They are a nice light shortbread cookie with a touch of cinnamon. Perfect with tea I suspect (I will test out my theory later today).
Here's the nutritional info on Cinna-Spins (1 pouch = 15 mini cookies; 24 grams weight)
*Lowest in fat; lowest in saturated fat; lowest in calories
Fat grams: 2First 4 ingredients:
Saturated fat grams: 1
Calories: 100
Sugar grams: 8
Total carbohydrate grams: 19
Fiber grams: less than 1
- enriched flour
- sugar
- palm oil
- high fructose corn syrup
You say the Girl Scouts in your district aren't selling Cinna-spins? Check out my complete breakdown of all of the cookies offered by the Girl Scouts this year to see what is best among the cookies available to you.
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16 Comments:
I can't believe that WebMD would say these Cinna-spins are the least bit healthy why 3 out of the top 4 ingredients are sugar, palm oil and high fructose corn syrup. Not everything should be measured healthy or not just by the number of calories and fat grams they have.
Personally, I don't eat cookies to "eat healthy", I eat them as a treat. That being said, the small amount of "unhealthy" ingredients are not of any consequence unless you plan on eating the whole box of 100 calorie packs at one sitting.
And these do taste pretty good, although I have mine with coffee not tea.
To the first anonymous poster:
The other cookies being rated in the Girl Scout Cookie article ALSO have the same ingredients you list (sugar, palm oil, etc..) so in my estimation going by the calories and grams of fat and grams of saturated and grams of sugar (which is what I talked about in the article) is a helpful way to view all of the Girl Scout Cookie options to come up with the better options.
--Elaine Magee
Why is there no mention of that lastest bugaboo--TRANSFATS!?
Nowhere in the article did it say that Cinna-spins are healthy; it only said that they are the lowest in fat and calories among Girl Scout cookies. There was no mention or implication anywhere of them being healthy.
Regarding trans-fats, I remember reading several months ago that they were being eliminated from Girl Scout cookies.
Even foods that claim to be free of trans fats have them. Search the list of ingredients for the words "partially hydrogenated" or "hydrogenated" - if you see those, the product contains trans fat.
The FDA allows a claim of "0 grams trans fat" if a "serving" is less than .5 grams. Of course, "serving size" is an arbitrary declaration, so eating several "servings" can give you a good dose of trans fats
Just eat the cookies and enjoy them.
I agree with the first comment. When I saw the heading in WebMD, I was sure that it would be exposing the fact that these cookies are not healthy. They are using marketing to claim they are without trans fat & using the low calorie info. to make people believe that they are not bad for them. I agree it is fine to eat something unhealthy as a "treat", but to put these on a website that is devoted to showing healthy options is not right.
High fructose corn syrup? That crap is what started the obesity epidemic in the '70's. No wonder so many kids are getting Type 2 Diabetes. Shame on the Girl Scouts. At least let them make something with decent ingredients.
The article said these are the best choice of all the girlscout cookies, which I think is good to know if you are going to buy them to support the girlscouts. The first and comment above me should read the article again. If you don't want to eat them then dont, I say just have a cookie (not the whole box).
Elaine please keep up the good work of providing nutritional info for us..
every one else..
that the cookies are bad for you is a given... and using the excuse that you only eat them to support the Girl Scouts is just as bad.. If that is the only reason you buy them, then donate $1 to your local girl scout org for each box you consider buying.. you wont have to eat the unhealthy cookies and the local Girl Scouts get a much larger chunk of the donation
"pie".
My grand dauhgter is a Girl Scout and I can't wait every year for these cookies -- for one to help her troop and that she can earn her "badge" -- and of course eat those cookies.
Who cares about counting callories when you enjoy a once in a while treat - cant resist the Coconuts .
Bijoui'
Anonymous 4:41 p.m., who said, "Just eat them and enjoy them" was right. The other option is not to eat them and to stop preaching about them. No one is forcing them down anyone's throat.(And either tea OR coffee would work for me.)
Hello all you readers who thought I didn't talk about trans fats and the girl scout cookies...
I DID talk about it toward the end of the article. I repeat...I DID talk about trans fats and girls scout cookies.
--Elaine Magee
I live in California just outside West Los Angeles and have not seen the Cinna spin cookies from the girl scouts. Where do they sell them. The low fat cookies from last year in my area are gone, why?
RB
cool blog if u have time come check my site it has alot of cookie recipes. Cheers
ben
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