Pop-Tarts! Warm, delicious, gooey pastries full of fat and sugar and at least 180 calories for just one.

Flavors ranging from the original Strawberry to confetti cupcake to seasonal favorites such as Frosted Sugar Cookie with snowmen, polar bears and penguins printed on the front.

High fructose corn syrup is the second ingredient after enriched flour which has sugar and dextrose in Cookies and Creme Pop-Tarts. Fructose, dextrose and galactose are the three dietary monosaccharides (simplest form of sugar) that are absorbed directly into the bloodstream during digestion. This means that you have sugar just running through your bloodstream. When you have more sugar and dextrose running through your bloodstream than vitamins and things that would be improving your blood quality, that’s bad.

Recently, the Bulletin did a poll on favorite type of Pop-Tarts. Brown Sugar Cinnamon won with 55% of the vote. In these favorite Pop-Tarts, there are 210 calories, 7 grams of fat, and 15 grams of sugar in just one pastry. Keep in mind that Pop-Tart packets come in packs of two. So if both Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-Tarts were to be eaten that would be 420 calories, 14 grams of fat, and 30 grams of sugar going into your body and twice the amount of dextrose and high fructose corn syrup being absorbed right into your bloodstream.

Not very healthy.