Main ingredients and nutritional contribution
Profeco warns that sugars are the first or second ingredient in these pastries, so their consumption should be moderate. They also contain cereal or legume flours, fats or oils, raising agents, salt, eggs, milk, whipped cream, fruits or other optional ingredients, additives and preservatives.
Due to their high sugar and fat content, these products provide a greater number of calories than necessary, which can lead to weight gain and lead to obesity.
You can identify sugar on labels under the following names: sucrose, glucose syrup, juice concentrates, maltose, and invert sugar.
Mislabeled Cupcakes
The two cupcakes that failed this category are brought to Mexico from Romania and declare “zero sugars”, but in the nutritional table it says that they have added sugars, so they do not meet the standard. These are:
- Vualá swich
- Vualá swich roll
Harmful cupcakes due to excess sugars
These products alone cover the daily sugar recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO):
- Hostess cinnamon roll 113g, made in the USA
- Marinela Neapolitan 210g, made in Mexico
- Mrs. Freshley’s Balonazos 210g, made in the USA