Pepsico CEO Says "Doritos Are Not Bad For You"

[forty6]

Source: The Consumerist

"Doritos are not bad for you," PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi told Fox Business News moments ago. "Doritos are nothing more than corn mashed up, fried up in oil, and flavored in the most delectable way."

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Nooyi also said cola products were not bad for you, noting they were "discovered in a pharmacy."

Read more: http://consumerist.com/2011/02/pepsico-ceo-says-doritos-are-not-bad-for-you.html

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Just in time for the Superbowl...Fox and PepsiCo pushing their lies upon the American public, as usual.

Quelle Surprise!!!!

[Indydem]

1. He isn't lying.

Doritos, Pepsi, bacon, even lard are not "bad" for you.

Sitting in front of the TV eating a bag of doritos and then living a sedintary life are bad for you.

People need to understand what thy are eating and keep it in moderation. Thankfully, the governmnet requires nutritional information on almost all foods. If people are too ignorant to look at the package, the only thing we can do about that is start ditating what people can and cannot eat, and I don't really care to live in a nanny state.

[trotsky]

4. You are correct but will probably take a lot of flak for saying so. n/t

[MattBaggins]

14. No he wil take flak because he not correct.

Sitting in front of the TV and leading a sedentary life is bad for you.

Doritos are also bad for you.

They are both bad for you.

[Fearless]

23. +1

[trotsky]

27. Is organic milk bad for you? Obviously this is a yes or no question.

So is it yes or no?

[MattBaggins]

30. Yes

[trotsky]

55. So is there any food that ISN'T bad for you? Ever? n/t

[MattBaggins]

48. By the way... Here's a right back at ya

Everything is good for you in moderation.

So Death Caps good for you in moderation? Yes or no?

[trotsky]

54. Oh I already understand the shades of gray.

I'm trying to find out if YOU do.

[NoPasaran]

73. I think you should leave TV out of this

It's the sitting and the sedentary life that's bad for you. Watching TV is getting a bum rap.

[KittyWampus]

10. Sorry, but Doritos and Pepsi exist as a part of an entire food system that IS BAD FOR YOU>

On every level.

You can isolate each one component and say "this alone isn't bad for you".

But we all know that one food stuff or situation isn't isolated.

From the way the corn that sweetens and fills the Doritos is grown- the Monsato seeds, chemical fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides and government subsidies to the whole centralization of our food sources to an economic and social system that has us working long hours and leaves us drained to corporations who spend millions advertising to make us think their crap is really tasty and healthy.

[Statistical]

11. Nutrition information on the bag doesn't make them suddenly good.

They are bad for you. There is more than just calories. The nutritional value of those products compared to the calories is bad.

Hence they are bad for you.

It would be like saying lead tainted candy isn't bad for you as long as the label clearly indicates lead.

[TBF]

33. "Nanny state"? Here we go again ... nt

[niyad]

41. I believe the head of pepsico is a SHE

[LanternWaste]

56. Aren't required nutritional listings on the packaging part and parcel of this alleged "nanny state?"

Aren't required nutritional listings on the packaging part and parcel of this alleged "nanny state?"

Or (and I find this more likely) Nanny State is simply a diaphanous label with no real meaning, applying only to those laws which we ourselves as individuals dislike...

[Arugula Latte]

67. If you don't want to live in a nanny state, why don't you move to Somalia?

I hear it's a libertarian paradise over there!

[Taverner]

77. Exactomundo!

McDonalds isn't bad for you - but its mostly air and fillers
Chances are their 'beef' patties are mostly beef flavoring mixed with the allowable amount of filler, which is probably harmless, but also useless. No nutrients.

[jobycom]

2. By themselves, they aren't. Now, if you actually consume them, they start to be bad for you. nt

[yellowcanine]

3. Doritos aren't "bad" for you if you eat 1/3 a "serving" and skip the sugared Pepsi.

Buy I would guess that is not what the Pepsi CEO meant.

[HopeHoops]

5. When you're really stoned, they're "health food".

:smoke: :hippie:

[SoCalDem]

6. He's right...

Occasionally having a snack of Doritos & Pepsi, is NOT "bad for you".

key word....occasionally.

not every day..not even twice a week..

maybe once a month?

[JHB]

9. Make it the official snack food of Groundhog Day

Bill Murray can have them everyday, but the rest of us...

[tabatha]

7. Ingredients

From Wikipedia

The chips are made of ground corn, vegetable oil, and salt. Seasonings will vary among flavors, and may include cheese powder, buttermilk powder, wheat flour, whey protein concentrate, tomato powder, flavor enhancers (621, 627, 631), onion powder, whey powder, garlic powder, dextrose, sugar, mineral salt (339), food acids (270, 330), flavor (natural), spices, colors (129, 150, 110).

Some Frito-Lay brand seasoned products, including some flavors of Doritos, contain beef enzymes in addition to herbs, cheese, and other seasonings. Frito-Lay's website states that they use enzymes from cows (beeftin enzymes) in some of their seasoned snack chip products to develop "unique flavors".<29>

I would avoid them because of:

GMO ingredients - corn and soy
Flavor enhancers
Food acids
Colors
Sugar and salt
Vegetable Oil (I doubt Olive Oil is used, the only oil I use besides Coconut)

and the wheat flour is probably refined.

[KittyWampus]

12. Thanks Tabatha, and let me just add- you can make your own chips easily enough.

You can choose the ingredients and keep them fresh, tasty and healthy.

[11 Bravo]

8. Nacho Cheese Doritos and Cheetos BOTH serve a valuable purpose.

In the gym I can easily identify the teabaggers. Orange genitals are a dead giveaway that someone has been snacking while watching Palin and Bachmann on FoxNews.

[LynneSin]

15. Wouldn't Orange Genitals mean someone was having sex with John Boehner

:hide:

[Angry Dragon]

31. Good one

[Swede]

13. No food is bad for you.

It's how much you eat,and your activity.

[tabatha]

18. Sorry, not true.

[Swede]

19. Sorry,true.

[tabatha]

24. So water with rocket fuel chemical is OK?

MSG is OK?

Natural food - seeds, fruits of plants.
Acorns were used as a food, but could not be used until all of the tannins had been leached out.

You should not east castor beans, and other poisonous food because you will die.

Some people are allergic to peanut butter; others have problems with gluten.

Sugar is damaging to teeth.

Some foods result in diabetes.

[Swede]

25. And here I thought this was an adult conversation.

Oh well.

[tabatha]

28. Explain.

I was listing some foods, artificial or not, that are bad for you - disproving your claim that all food is OK.

What is not adult about that - or is because you have no answer.

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. Just one note

Diabetes is genetic. Having issues with weight will lead to the cascad events leading to pre-diabetes, and later diabetes. People without the genes, or damage to the islets from other means, can be as obese as they can, sans diabetes.

Obesity, and the inability to lose weight are connected though.

By the way not saying that fritos or soda are good for you given the ingredients.

[Swede]

36. Food is neutral.

It's quantity that is the problem. You post rocket fuel as a food,poison as a food. Food that some people are allergic to is straying off the subject.

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. Actually highly processed food is NOT neutral

As more and more medical science is revealing. High transfats lead to bad cholesterol ratios for example. There is a direct relattionship between these fats and cholesterol... Go on, read pub med. The same goes for sugar and corn syrup, again,mread pub med. Of course there is a jury stil out on GMO given the dramatic increase in the incidence in things like celiacs.

[tabatha]

40. The discussion was about fabricated food.

and you said no food was bad.

I was just providing examples of fabricated food that was bad and that not all food was good for all people, which you implied.

I could go further - scientists have been doing studies that indicate some foods actually affect one's DNA.

Some foods have hormonal influences - for example, some foods promote serotonin and melatonin production. Melatonin is responsible for sleep, and also for the fact that one's own stem cells function better in its presence in the body.

So, to say, that all food is neutral is complete and utter gibberish.

Go hit the books.

[Statistical]

49. "food is neutral" what a load of bunk.

That says all food is equal in nutritional value and only the limit matters.

Someone eating 1200 calories a day of nothing but Doritos, Pepsi, and Big Macs will have worse health than someone eating 1200 calories a day of a random mix of fresh fruit, vegetables, milk, and whole grains.

The idea that all food is equal and the only that matter is quantity is complete and utter nonsense.

Quantity matters but nutritional value ALSO matter.

[Very_Boring_Name]

45. Sorry, but you were just OWNED by the facts

Maybe you should remember that old saying "Never enter a battle of wits unarmed"

[Swede]

57. No I wasn't.

Nobody "owned me".

[NickB79]

61. Huh, my food pyramid doesn't list rocket fuel

Maybe you have a different food pyramid than the rest of us.

[tabatha]

69. It does include water. Water is a food.

[Akoto]

64. I don't think 'rocket fuel chemical' qualifies as food. n/t

[tabatha]

70. Water is a food.

The point was that not all food is neutral. As you demonstrated.

[Statistical]

46. BS. Maintaining the human body requires more than calories.

Some food is bursting with nutrition and some of it is nearly worthless. Calories without the requirements for good health.

[Swede]

58. So eat a balanced diet.

This ain't rocket science. Food is neutral,it just sits there on the shelf. It's what you do with it that counts.

[Statistical]

59. No it isn't neutral. Some food is better than other food. Period.

Nobody is saying doritos are lethal but the idea that food is neutral is based on faith not science.

Science tells us food is NOT neutral all food has a varying level of nutrition. Doritos are part of no balanced diet.

[Swede]

60. Well,I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

WE decide what we put in our bodies,not the food,is the point I am trying to make.

[Statistical]

62. Who said otherwise?

That is a straw-man. Of course we decide. That doesn't change the fact that some food is better than other food.

If you decided to bake a bleach pie would that be "good" just because you chose to put it in your body?

[Swede]

63. Well let's stop arguing.

I just see this differently than you do.

[LynneSin]

16. Here is what is really in Doritos:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100616083317AAwk0AM

To create each Dorito, the Frito-Lay food scientists draw from a well of 39 different ingredients. How many does it take to make a regular tortilla chip? About three. That means some 36 ingredients wind up in that weird cheese fuzz. Of those 36, only two are ingredients you'd use to make nachos at home: Romano and cheddar cheeses. Alongside those are a cache of empty carbohydrate fillers like dextrin, maltodextrin, dextrose, flour, and corn syrup solids. Then come a rotating cast of oils. Depending on what bag you get, you might find any combination of corn oil, soybean oil, cottonseed oil, and sunflower oil. Some of those will be partially hydrogenated, meaning they give the chip a longer shelf life and spike your heart with a little shot of trans fat. (The reason you won't see this on the nutrition label is that FDA guidelines allow food manufacturers to "round down" to zero.)

And then, after the fats and nutritionally empty starches, there's a seasoning blend, which includes things like sugar, "artificial flavoring," and a rather worrisome compound called monosodium glutamate. Monosodium glutamate, or MSG, is the flavor enhancer largely responsible for the chip's addicting quality. The drawback is that it interferes with the production of an appetite-regulating hormone called leptin. A study of middle-aged Chinese people found a strong correlation between MSG consumption and body fat. What's more, the FDA receives new complaints every year from people who react violently to MSG, suffering symptoms like nausea, headaches, burning sensation, numbness, chest pains, dizziness, and so on. Talk about radioactive bee pollen

[tabatha]

17. Yup, Doritos are not bad for you.

(Sarcasm)

I don't trust a damn thing that comes out of huge food plants. They throw whatever they like in there, and hide it under bland names such as food coloring or food enhancers.

(And despite a sedentary year last year because of work load, I am not sick and have not had the flu in 10+ years.)

Here is a recipe for easy, healthy chips:

"Brush some olive oil on little pieces of kale and salt or season them as you wish and then put them in the oven for about 45 minutes at 240".

[KittyWampus]

20. In addition, the cost of making your own is a fraction of what a bag of corporate made crap does.

It's fresher, cheaper, healthier and you control what flavorings go on it.

[cbdo2007]

21. Who gives a f*ck?? Ice cream isn't good for me either but I'm still going to eat it.

Just because something doesn't have nutritional value doesn't mean there is no reason to consume it. Doritos are hardly the worst thing at the supermarket that you can eat.

[forty6]

26. Perhaps you missed the point about the timing and the medium upon which.....

this "health" message was delivered.

It has nothing to do with the good or the bad of the product, but everything to do with how Fox Business will inspire millions of people to go out and buy Pepsi products before this Superbowl weekend, having been given "permission" to do so.

[fishwax]

65. I don't think "permission" from the CEO will be the deciding factor for many

when it comes to whether or not they buy Doritos and Pepsi for Super Bowl Sunday.

[Statistical]

50. Icecream has some nutritional value especially if it is natural.

Some icecream with strawberries made from real ingredients is good for you.

Granted you shouldn't eat 5000 calories of it a week but it is good. Doritos are processed waste and fillers packaged as food. For the CEO to pretend it is just "corn" so it is good is bunk.

[Dappleganger]

22. But will it cure cancer?

Seriously, the only thing that jerk cares about is his bennies package.

[Renew Deal]

29. He's right

Doritos in proportion aren't bad for you and neither is soda. Of course, some soda's are worse than others.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

32. Indra Nooyi is a woman, by the way.

Some DUers thought it was a male name.

[niyad]

42. didn't see your post before I posted mine.

[mainer]

34. Doritos + guacamole + salsa + cheese

all the necessary food groups.

[Countdown_3_2_1]

38. One of the greatest inventions of all time: Doritos!

Second only to Pizza.

Good...Bad....Resistance is futile. Buy a bag today.

[Blue-Jay]

71. I had some last night.

They were delicious.

[Lucian]

39. Those things are high in fat and calories.

By definition, they are bad for you.

I wouldn't go near that shit if Pepsi paid me to.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

43. Avery Shrieber's dead. Leno's alive. Court's still out, I guess. nt

[Jennicut]

44. Eat everything in moderation. As a type 1 diabetic, I can't have a ton of anything.

I have to count my calorie totals every day, count my carbs at every meal. Really, everyone should. But I really try not to drink sugared soda. Why waste 40 grams of carbs on soda? The only thing it is good for is a low blood sugar episode.

[MattBaggins]

51. I have type 2 and don't buy into the moderation as a gospel thing

Yes it is crucial to reduce the amounts one eats and exercise; but this saying that "EVERYTHING is OK in moderation" is not a true statement. I am not trying to wag my finger as I myself drink diet Pepsi but I am fully aware that it is not good for me no matter what quantity of it I drink. I realize when I take the first sip that it is bad for me.

[Jennicut]

75. True but I would go crazy. My diet is so limited to begin with.

[WildEyedLiberal]

47. I love "progressive" food nazis

:eyes:

What happened to common sense? Doritos IN LIMITED QUANTITIES are not bad for you. If you eat a bag of Doritos every day, then yeah, that's probably bad for you. I'd also advise against drinking a 2 liter of pop and eating a gallon of ice cream every day. But eating Doritos at a Super Bowl party is not going to cause any massive coronaries. But it's not poison and it won't kill you, any more than eating unadorned organic corn chips with the same amount of salt and calories is going to kill you.

[MattBaggins]

53. It has nothing to do with "nazism"

The CEO of a company is trying to blow smoke up our asses and people are pointing it out.

I love Doritos just as much as the next guy. I however, realize that even the first chip is bad for me. I don't try to blow smoke up my own ass with the "moderation" silliness.

[WildEyedLiberal]

76. You are blowing smoke up your own ass if you think ONE chip is "bad for you"

One Dorito - or even a handful of Doritos - is no "worse" for you than any other corn chip. It's not "good for you" in the sense that it does not offer any meaningful nutrition besides raw calories, no - but that is not the same as being "bad for you." A diet consisting of Doritos would be bad for you, absolutely. But this crap that you can *never* partake of so-called "bad foods" lest you experience debilitating long-term medical problems like obesity or high blood pressure is complete nonsense. The problem with Americans is that we think that if something is okay some of the time, it's okay all of the time - or that if it's bad for you all of the time, it's bad for you even if you have it just once. Neither is obviously true. A bowl of ice cream won't make you fat. A handful of Doritos won't make you fat. A bowl of ice cream and a handful of Doritos in place of every single meal will give you nutritional deficits and possibly make you fat, but that's not the same as saying that even one Dorito is "bad for you."

[seabeyond]

52. moderation. i can be responsible with self. nt

[HappyMe]

74. Oh, I agree. Personal responsibility.

Just because you open the bag, that does not mean you should chow the entire thing down.

[blogslut]

66. We're a salt crazy species

I would venture to say that 99% of processed foods owe their popularity to high salt-based flavoring.

[Arugula Latte]

68. Here's one answer: Salt licks for humans!

[blogslut]

72. Ha!

No doubt, that's kind of what goes on, at least here in America.

On a serous note, I was very glad to see this new FDA food thingy, stressing that people need to cut down on their salt intake. Why do Doritos taste good? Salt. Why do most pre-prepared foods taste good? Salt.

When I used to wait tables the thing that drove me nuts was watching countless people douse their dishes with the stuff - despite the fact that those meals were prepared with more than enough salt.

My mother wasn't a fanatic but the salt shaker was never put on the table in our house. If a guest asked "Where's the salt?" she replied: "It's in the dish".

These boxed and bagged foods are irresistible because they are highly salted. If these companies cut the salt back to healthy levels, they'd see a drastic drop in sales.

[AsahinaKimi]

78. Isn't Doritos the one that sponsors the SUPERBOWL half time show?

Maybe thats why this is coming out now.