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felice Thu 26-Jun-14 15:31:04

Heard on the news this morning that the Uk government want people to cut down on sugar and get children to drink water, sounds normal to me but that is not the point of the post.
I was looking at the BBC Good Food website this morning and saw a recipe for Strawberry Cream Ice Lollies, just made some fresh Strawberry ones for DGS yesterday so I was interested.. Now this recipe which is advertised as healthy and Low fat contains an entire tin of Condensed Milk, almost pure sugar.
How can this be healthy, when people are being encouraged to eat less sugar, a sweet containing this much sugar is not.

Joelsnan Thu 26-Jun-14 15:53:59

Most of Asia use condensed or evaporated milk instead of fresh, they don't skimp...not many fat!

felice Thu 26-Jun-14 17:23:43

They do not live the rest of the time on a diet of junk food, they use condensed milk in Cha but except for the use of Ghee they do not eat a lot of dairy products either.

jinglbellsfrocks Thu 26-Jun-14 17:29:30

How much fresh milk goes into a tin of condensed? There would be no added sugar in it.

felice Thu 26-Jun-14 17:50:09

just had a google, in 100g of condensed milk 54g are sugar, really healthy!!

Joelsnan Thu 26-Jun-14 18:02:16

Felice. Most Asian food has very high fat and sugar content. Many 'curries' have ghee and full fat Yoghurt. Naans are soaked in ghee. Kulfi is full cream milk and Sugar so is Rasmalai and halwa is almost all sugar.
There are many fast food takeaways based on deep fried food.

JessM Thu 26-Jun-14 18:42:58

There is increasing diabetes in India joelsnan
I always thought evaporated milk contained no added sugar but condensed milk contains a lot. Which is why Winnie the Pooh thought is a suitable substitute for Hunny.

Joelsnan Thu 26-Jun-14 19:04:43

My mum used to buy it to make coconut macaroons. I loved dipping my finger in the tin and lucking it. Where I am at the moment you can buy tiny tins of it...I have resisted till now, but can now imagine that lovely sweet gloopy stuff. I might just gave to buy one!

jinglbellsfrocks Thu 26-Jun-14 19:09:25

I didn't know condensed milk has added sugar. Haven't had it since I was a child. Good thing too obviously! smile

Nelliemoser Thu 26-Jun-14 20:30:21

Many breakfast cereals aimed at children have masses of sugar added , about 36% sugar in the worst. They are marketed as low fat of course, just to fudge the issue

felice Thu 26-Jun-14 22:48:34

nelliemoser, that was my original point, as so many children eat so much processed food high in sugar, salt and fat surely we should be trying to make homemade things with less of it.

felice Thu 26-Jun-14 22:49:34

nelliemoser, that was my original point, as so many children eat so much processed food high in sugar, salt and fat surely we should be trying to make homemade things with less of it.

felice Thu 26-Jun-14 22:51:29

sorry double clicked once i finish watching the belgian match it's off to bed, have it on a Flemish channel not my best language so can blank out the commentary.