The (harsh) truth about Nutella
"Oh, no, Valentin, not Nutella"
I know what you’re thinking.
You’re going to say that there’s no way, that Valentin is exaggerating yet again just so he can get more engagement and sell his weightloss program.
However, what you’re about to see is 100% real.
And I have a video just to prove that I’m not sugarcoating the truth. Get it? 😊
✅ READ THE LABEL
If you have a jar of Nutella around the house, then you know what it contains.
It’s not like I have discovered the secret ingredients of this legendary chocolate cream.
I just want to do a small exercise together. It will enable me to show you how to read product labels and not miss a detail.
Let’s read the label together.
Ingredients: sugar, palm oil, hazelnuts 13%, skimmed powder milk 8.7%, skimmed powder cocoa 7.4%, soy lecithin, vanillin.
🏆PRO Tip: Ingredients are listed in descending order of quantities used in the recipe.
When you’re selling something, you want to give off the impression that your product is the best in the universe.
Of course you’ll write 13% hazelnuts on the ingredients label.
What won’t help is writing that your product contains 57% sugar.
This would be the proportions of each ingredient.
sugar - 57,5%;
palm oil - 22%;
hazelnuts - 13%;
skimmed powder milk - 8,7%;
skimmed powder cocoa - 7.4%;
soy lecithin;
vanilin.
✅ THE NUTRITIONAL TABLE
Now let’s look at the nutritional table.
100 grams of Nutella contains:
57.5g carbohydrates (i.e. sugar);
30g fats (i.e. oil).
Meaning 87% of Nutella is sugar + oil.
As a result, a 400 gram jar of Nutella contains:
120g of oil;
230g of sugar.
✅ THERE’S NO WAY!
I know you don’t think what you’re seeing is real.
I have also prepared this video just so you know I’m not “sugarcoating” the truth.
✅ CALORIES BLAH
100g of Nutella contain:
539 calories;
30g of oil;
57g of sugar.
A jar of Nutella (400g) contains 2156 calories.
I have another nice piece of math here for you:
30g of oil = 270 calories;
57,5g of sugar = 230 calories.
So, 500 out of 539 calories (of 100 grams of Nutella) come from sugar and oil.
So, from a calorie standpoint, you could say that…
Nutella is 93% sugar and oil.
Thank you for your attention.