The sauce is not boss

Many sauces and condiments are a Trojan Horse for your healthy eating plans, rolling in and wreaking havoc on your nutritional plans.

Their weapons of choice? Sugar and vegetable oil.

Sugar

•Ketchup: one tablespoon of Heinz Ketchup contains four grams of sugar. And you’re likely using way more than one tablespoon.

•BBQ sauce: one tablespoon of Sweet Baby Ray’s original sauce has eight grams of sugar.

•Salad dressing: Low and no-fat varieties tend to have the most sugar, as they are sweetened to compensate for the loss of taste due to the fat reduction.

•Spaghetti sauce: Ragu contains 8 grams of sugar per half cup

Vegetable oil

•Virtually any restaurant sauce: If your dining out, there’s about a 99% chance the sauce on your entree contains some kind of vegetable oil, which are awful for your health in so many ways.

•Salad dressings: Notoriously full of vegetable oil—often as the main ingredient.

•Standard mayonaise: Often contains soybean oil. (Besides, mayo is disgusting with or without soybean oil, and I will accept no counter-arguments.)

You don’t have to wander in the desert

Your food doesn’t have to be drier than the Sahara. Instead, consider using:

•Homemade, olive-oil based salad dressing

•Hot sauce (Frank’s Red Hot 4evr)

•Regular (not honey!) mustard

•Dry seasoning

•Organic mayo without vegetable oil (If, you know, you must use mayo for some reason …)

Defeating the sauce boss requires an adjustment. But eliminating bad condiments and sauces creates a self-reinforcing structure.

As you look and feel better, you’ll want to keep your guard up--and the sugar and vegetable oil out.

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