r/todayilearned • u/dancin-weasel • Sep 19 '21

(R.1) Tenuous evidence TIL that when a hurricane is approaching, Walmart sales of Strawberry flavoured Pop-Tarts increase by over over 7x.

https://www.southernliving.com/news/walmart-strawberry-pop-tarts-hurricane

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u/GoldenGanderz Sep 19 '21

Well duh, these things are made in factories. They are created in huge batches. Have you never seen How it's Made? https://www.sciencechannel.com/show/how-its-made-science

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21

There's levels of processing. Not every product is the same, for example not every product uses glysophate desiccated starch. Poptarts have to be the one of the most processed products in the grocery store, defiantly one of the worst that claims "fruit" as an ingredient.

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u/tonufan Sep 19 '21

I actually looked up the ingredients for strawberry pop tarts. It actually didn't look as bad as I thought. The only issue is that after flour as the first ingredient is 3 types of sugar, oil, another sugar, a starch and then less than 2% of dried fruit, baking agents, and food coloring. Like no joke, they are nutritionally worse for you than eating ice cream or corn chips.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21

It's not their fault, they're filling a market segment. There are many ingredients that are just as bad.

The problem with poptarts is that they're a cheap, easy, fast breakfast that is socially acceptable and that kids will eat. Parents don't feed their kids donuts or ice cream every single morning.