I see diet meals on shorts and i see Americans with big ass wraps for like 40~90 cals.
Yet in the uk the lowest we got in shops is 115~120 nearly 3x as much. It's bullhonkey
I don't care if it's chemicals i wanna gorge on wraps.
by Smooth_Review2934
I see diet meals on shorts and i see Americans with big ass wraps for like 40~90 cals.
Yet in the uk the lowest we got in shops is 115~120 nearly 3x as much. It's bullhonkey
I don't care if it's chemicals i wanna gorge on wraps.
by Smooth_Review2934
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Same problem here in The Netherlands. I feel you on gorging on wraps :’D…
Cuz they are hyperfixed on this
Capitalism. 🙂
They probably have more food scientists on the case, because it’s bigger market. Seems to be the case across the board with food and drink products.
It’s probably possible to get them imported, depending on your budget. I’ve also found some great US diet products on the IHerb website.
Personally I just use seaweed sheets at 10kcals a piece. They wouldn’t work with large quantities or wet foods, but I adore them for things like thin omelettes and shredded or deli meat with just a small amount of sauce.
I hear you from Poland. 120cals a pop protein tortillas and they are not even big!
Because they consider insoluble fibre to have 0 calories.
A handful of things, I think.
We have less ingredients regulation here, so its not as challenging for companies to put some… interesting ingredients in things. Not to fear monger and say its all bad, but its not exactly health food.
Second, obesity is a huge issue here, with something like 70% of Americans being obese, and weight loss is an easy sell. If you can slap “LOW CALORIE!” Or “LOW CARB!” in giant brightly colored letters on packaging, youre going to sell that product to a lot more consumers. You can also jack up the price because now its a “specialty product”. And American companies are very interested in making as much money as possible as fast as possible.
Honestly, id suggest just making your own. Tortillas aren’t hard to make, taste better fresh, and then you can control the ingredients.
Probably size.
Bit regardless I always lamented this when Iived abroad. Better living through chemistry!
And I have the body and lipid profile to prove it.
The US one is 42g and the UK one is 100g
Because we have all the special secret ingredients yall think should be illegal.
I’m in Canada and close-ish to the US border. Back when we would actually go to the States (before…everything), we would sometimes swing by their grocery stores. I was also so amazed and so jealous at how many calorie-friendly/weight-loss friendly options they had!! Here, the lowest calorie tortilla for wraps I can find are the smaller sized ones that are 100-120 calories.
It is chemicals, and they don’t taste very good IMO. I ate them for a while.
I get the ones made from Chickpeas. They just taste better. 140 calories. With Chicken and spinach, it isn’t too many calories.
OP, please try the Old El Paso extra thin tortillas. I find them in Morrisons. They won’t be in the same aisle as regular wraps, they’ll be in the small Mexican section.
They’re still just as high per 100g but each tortilla (good sized too) is 96 calories (about 32g). It scratches the itch for tortillas without compromising the taste nor size. It’s simply because they made it thin.
I like the US for this fact. It is so much easier to stay in shape here than anywhere else. The opposite is true as well
For one, different countries have different standards for calorie calculation.
Because the government here is lobbied by the food industry which leaves us with “well, profits are what matter most; if consumers die, they die.”
Its just the way its counted. In the US they substract the fiber calories so in the UK the same exact tortilla would probably be sold as double the calories.
Americans have a lot less restrictions on what they’re allowed to add in their food.
I’m in Canada which follows similar laws to the UK, and frankly I’m thankful for the laws, I don’t want to be eating a bunch of random additives.
These use a modified wheat starch (type 4 resistant starch) that is chemically altered to digest more like a fiber and has lower calories than normal flour. Not sure if legal in UK/EU.
i love those tortillas lol
…I don’t know. We don’t usually get the lower calorie items… this is perplexing.
From what I found: there is no wheat flour in Carb Counter tortilla wrap, ahd water is on the first place. For the comparison, a generic wrap in my country has: wheat flour 60%, water, rapeseed oil, salt and only then different enchancers. It has cca 250 kcal/100g.
I may be reading the labels incorrectly, but the 60 calorie one is 42g and the 120 calorie one is 100g per serving. We have tortillas ranging in size from 6” for tacos to 12” for giant burritos. The 60 calorie tortilla looks to be about 8”.
I use the BFree Sweet Potato wraps, which are 79. Are they as good as a wrap with some lovely gluten? No. But I can wrap stuff in them! Get them in the free from aisle.
Mexican food is a heavy cultural staple here much more than it is in Europe. We will try to get Mexican food at any cost lol.
What I noticed is that they cheat on their calories. For example if you check the nutritional numbers the calories should be around 81.5 kcal not 60 kcal. Plus they do this weird logic that everything under 5 kcal counts as zero.
To be fair the “bigass wraps” aren’t in that calorie range. The big ones are more like 110 cals. The ones that are 45 cals are street taco size, and the 70 cal ones are soft taco size. They aren’t as big as you’re thinking.
Also you guys get all the good low cal high protein yogurt and puddings and stuff.
I’m just here to applaud you for the use of the word “bullhonkey.”
whoa you guys call tortillas wraps? had no idea
Did you compare the full macros? There may be different calculations at play.