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Fat List: 49 foods to avoid

They stress the list is a guide to help obese people identify which foods could be cut from their diet. But others say it could be a step towards imposing higher taxes and other measures on junk food. ADVERTISEMENT Advertise with NZME.

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THE NEEDN'T FOODS

1. Alcoholic drinks Water/diet soft drinks

2. Biscuits

3. Butter, lard, dripping or similar fat (used as a spread or in baking/cooking etc.)

4. Cakes

5. Chocolate

6. Coconut cream Lite coconut milk/coconut flavoured lite evaporated milk  

7. Condensed milk

8. Cordial Water/Sugar free cordial

9. Corn chips 

10. Cream (including crème fraiche) Natural yoghurt (or flavoured yoghurt depending on use)

11. Crisps (including vegetable crisps) 

12. Desserts/puddings

13. Doughnuts

14. Drinking Chocolate, Milo etc. Cocoa plus artificial sweetener

15. Energy drinks Water

16. Flavoured milk/milkshakes Trim, Calcitrim or Lite Blue Milk

17. Fruit tinned in syrup (even lite syrup!) Fruit tinned in juice/artificially sweetened

18. Fried food Boiled, grilled or baked food

19. Frozen yoghurt Ordinary yoghurt

20. Fruit juice (except tomato juice and unsweetened blackcurrant juice) Fresh fruit (apple, orange, pear etc. + a drink!)  

21. Glucose Artificial sweetener

22. High fat crackers (more than 10g fat per 100g) Lower fat crackers (less than 10g fat per 110g)  

23. Honey 

24. Hot chips 

25. Ice cream 

26. Jam 

27. Marmalade

28. Mayonnaise Lite dressings/lite mayonnaise  

29. Muesli bars 

30. Muffins 

31. Nuts roasted in fat or oil Dry roasted or raw nuts (less than 1 handful per day)  

32. Pastries

33. Pies

34. Popcorn with butter or oil Air popped popcorn  

35. Quiches Crust-less quiches

36. Reduced cream Natural yoghurt

37. Regular luncheon sausage Low fat luncheon sausage  

38. Regular powdered drinks (e.g. Raro) Water/Diet/Sugar free powdered drinks  

39. Regular salami Low fat salami  

40. Regular sausages Low fat sausages  

41. Regular soft drinks Water/Diet soft drinks  

42. Rollups Fresh fruit  

43. Sour cream Natural yoghurt  

44. Sugar (added to anything including drinks, baking, cooking etc.)  Artificial sweetener

45. Sweets/lollies 

46. Syrups such as golden syrup, treacle, maple syrup Artificial sweetener  

47. Toasted muesli and any other breakfast cereal with more than 15g sugar per 100g cereal

48. Whole Milk Trim, Calcitrim or Lite Blue Milk  

49. Yoghurt type products with 10g sugar per 100g yoghurt Yoghurt (not more than one a day  

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