This Newbie Thought Crabmeat was OK?

[EmDee]

but when I was dicing some this morning for a crabmeat salad to bring to work, I looked at the back of the package and saw "Sugar 2g" listed ~ is that ok? This was not crabmeat in a can ~ it is the stuff in the cold case near the fish counter....

This is only my second day and ALREADY I'm messing up, LOL!

[*Emma*]

hows it listed in the ingredients?

whatever it is, dont stress, youve found out early enough for it not to be too much of a pain!

[Miss Phode]

EmDee, real crabmeat is OK. I think you have Krab meat which is artificial and has sugar.

[EmDee]

I found the product on-line ~ what a mistake this purchase was! A good lesson about reading labels....I just thought "Crabmeat is on the okay list" without really looking at what I was getting!



INGREDIENTS: Alaska Pollock, Water, Egg Whites, Wheat Starch, Sugar, Corn Starch, Sorbitol, contains 2% or less of the following: King Crab Meat, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Extracts of Crab, Oyster, Scallop, and Fish, Rice Wine (rice, water, koji, yeast, salt), Modified Tapioca Starch, Salt, Carrageenan, Yam Flour, Hydrolyzed Soy, Corn and Wheat Proteins, Disodium Inosinate and Guanylate, Sodium Pyrophosphate, Color.


I guess I will be tossing out that crabmeat salad and going off to find something else to eat for lunch today! I'm glad I noticed it this morning, before I totally blew my induction...

[EmDee]

Originally Posted by Miss Phode

EmDee, real crabmeat is OK. I think you have Krab meat which is artificial and has sugar.

most of what is labeled as "crabmeat" is actually surimi, which is imitation crabmeat made out of other fish (like haddock or pollock). I knew this already, but thought that whether crabmeat is crab or fish didn't matter because both are okay.

what I forgot was that manufacturers are always tossing extra junk into our food without most of us even thinking about it.

lesson learned!

[susan423]

Yeah, I was going to buy some the other day and flipped the package over to look at the ingredients (that's become a habit with me now) and was also suprised at what was in it.

[ashley041185]

I buy "Phillips crab" its great kinda expensive tho ($6.00 for 8oz cup) but yummm! no carbs, sugars or anything bad in it

[How Riveting]

Wow. After eating "clean" for the past several days, reading that ingredient list just completely grossed me out. Could you ever imagine making something like that from scratch in your home? I mean, really, think about it - would you ever make a recipe that called for all those ingredients? It really makes you think.

I think half the weight loss on Atkins comes not from low carb, but from eating foods in their whole state.

[LC_Dave]

It has sugar in it.


Don't eat it.

This stuff causes an insulin response in me.