Spotted* Club Crackers - Those sneaky little elves.
I have to admit, this one hurts. Kellogg’s Club Crackers have been a staple in my house for years. I’ve tried many different brands of crackers ( I didn’t think there could be such taste variation in a cracker, but trust me, there is a huge difference ), and I have always stuck with the Club Original as my cracker of choice. As a
Oh those Evil Elves
quick snack, it’s hard to beat the cracker with cheese combo. When your feeling sick ( or hungover ), sometimes a club cracker is the only thing your stomach can handle. Even when the snack cupboard was bare, I could always rely on there being a box of Club in the pantry as a last resort to appease a salt craving. So I was quite displeased to find that dreaded word; partially hydrogenated, listed on the back of the green box.
The Keebler Elves snuch some trans fat into the tree, and used it to make my favorite cracker. Again, they use the serving size trick to hide their trans fat contents and claim zero grams trans fat per serving, which is listed as only 4 crackers. ( see our post on Blue Cheese Salad Dressing ). They also add some TBHQ , or tertiary butylhydroquinone, a preservative which has been linked to stomach tumors
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and damage to DNA at high doses in lab animals. Great, just what I always wanted; a cracker that causes cancer.
Perhaps I’m being a bit harsh on my old friend the club cracker, but I don’t think my criticism is unwarrented. Do the public a favor Keebler Co; make a few extra pennys per box and take out the trans fat and carcinogens.
Choose Healthy.
