Not so fast!! Sorry but as cookie-loving, health conscious, hungry consumers we will believe almost anything that makes it easy to not feel guilty about "snack" food. Take a look at the text, "Chocolate Chunks in their natural habitat"-- which is a mound of cookie dough. It's not exactly wheat grass, agave sweetened, multi grain dough. But the advertisement has so many clues that these cookies are going to be delicious AND healthy, right? We've been so caught up in the Green Movement that we're starting to directly associate green (the color) with "healthy, natural, safe". Food companies have been slapping on green labels, green packaging, green awards...etc to get our "healthy" hands to try their products. Who can blame them? In reality, you really need to flip over the box and check out the ingredients to know if it's natural. Hint: if you can't pronounce it, it's not natural. Calories and fat are also more important than how many leaves are pictured on the front of the box.
But hey--if you've found a "healthy snack food" that you love-- keep buying it, no matter the color on the package!
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