In reply to UKC Gear:
How disgusting!!! Here is an ingredients list and some comments about a few of the ingredients.
Travellunch Energy Muesli:
Ingredients:
Rolled oats, whey protein, (20%), whole milk powder, sultanas, honey, maltodextrin,sugar, hazelnut croquant, raisins, rice, wheat flakes, malt extract, dates, strawberries, sunflower seeds,apples, banana, flavouring, whey product, acidifier: citric acid.
1) whey protein - This is a hydrolyzed product that contains free glutamic acid
2) maltodextrin - This may contain MSG and/or MSG may be produced during processing.
3) malt extract - As for maltodextrin.
4) flavouring - This could be ANY NUMBER OF UN-NAMED CHEMICALS that have been allowed, because of political lobbying by the chemical and food industries, to remain unlisted individually.
Please look this up for yourself.
Free glutamates and glutamic acid (of which MSG is the most famous example and is known by many many other names)...
Are excitotoxins that cause nerve damage in the brain.
They cause brain lesions (meaning that they kill brain cells). They cause retinal damage (meaning that the ability to process light received into the eye is impaired.
Cause hypothalamus lesions (The hypothalamus acts upon the pituitary gland to control the release of hormones and within itself affects the regulation of temperature in the body.)
Cause, through the impairment of hormonal functions, damage to the ability to control appetite and most people who eat unnatural glutamates will leave the meal unsatisfied and wanting more food shortly afterwards. They are also addictive and are the most common cause of obesity in today's society. Just look around you! Ever wondered why "When you pop, you can't stop"???
I appreciate that people have choices and that this type of product may be appropriate for, amongst others, those who do not care about their health and so I offer this information only as a platform for those who are interested to use as a starting point for doing their own research.
To say that something is GM free and provides x number of grams of some nutritional aspect and y number of grams of another is just a distraction to stall the reader from looker further into what the ingredients actually are.
Good luck and stay healthy.