My daughter asked me this as she is not convinced with her lesson that cake is not a healthy food for a growing child. If bread and biscuits are good food then what made the cake to be not good?
2006-08-21 07:49:56 · 50 answers · asked by ♥ lani s 7 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
I usually bake for my children modified cake recipes to have them get good nutritional benefits.
2006-08-21 09:21:04 · update #1
There are 2 things which make cake bad for you. The first is the sugar. The second is refined or processed flour. Sugar of course turns to sugar in your blood. Processed flour also turns to sugar in your blood. These cause you to secrete insulin which stops fat metabolism. Read a book called Sugar Busters. It will give you all the info you need about the glysimic index and what happens inside you when you eat bad carbs.
Bread (stoned ground wheat) is the only bread good for you. Biscuits are not good for you, unless they too are stone ground wheat or bran (unprocessed)
2006-08-21 07:58:16 · answer #1 · answered by Richard B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The stuff in a cake that isn't healthy is all the sugar & all the white flour. Also the frosting is pure sugar.
Wheat bread and multi or whole grain bread is healthier for you than white bread. Biscuits are not healthy due to the flour in them.
You can make cake healthier by making it with oatmeal, other grains, applesauce, fruit, etc. Or try a banana bread instead of a cake.'
2006-08-21 07:59:19 · answer #2 · answered by Bluealt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because breads and biscuits do not have a lot of sugar in it like most cakes do and, on top of that, you do not "ice" breads or biscuits. You put either butter and jam or honey on them. With cakes, you have the sugar and the icing, which is nothing more then powdered sugar made to ice the cake. Sugar on top of sugar, really. Tell her that.
2006-08-21 07:58:10 · answer #3 · answered by uchaboo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all bread and biscuits are good for you either, especially if its refined flours. But, as you may have noticed, it is the amount of sugar and oil in the cake that makes it not as healthy. Also, cakes are made with refined, bleached flour.
And when you put frosting on it... up goes the sugar content.
2006-08-21 07:58:02 · answer #4 · answered by D'oh! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excuse me but bread and biscuits are not good food. White flour is horrible for your body. Basically all this does is turn to a hard ball in your stomach and raises your blood sugar as it turns to sugar in the body. Sugar is so very addictive. It causes all sorts of problems in the body.
2006-08-21 08:40:33 · answer #5 · answered by Skeeter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amount of sugar in the cake. Some breads are not good for you either....Whole grain bread is the healthiest, but you still have to watch the sugar...and biscuits....not that great for you because of the type of flour.
2006-08-21 07:56:45 · answer #6 · answered by voandginger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sugar
2006-08-21 07:57:51 · answer #7 · answered by ASTORROSE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biscuits are not good for you. They are very fattening as most are made with shortening. There are any number of ingredients in cake that are bad. Eggs, oil, full fat milk, lots of calorioes from sugar and flour....depending on what you use they are better darn unhealthy
2006-08-21 07:57:08 · answer #8 · answered by manza 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Refined sugar and flour aren't good for you plus the added fat as well.
I have posted a site on no sugar no flour diet that Dr. Gott of newspaper fame has endorsed.
http://www.supplecity.com/articles/diets/nosugarnoflourdiet.htm
It explains why cake, bread and biscuits aren't good for you.
2006-08-21 08:00:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cake has a lot more butter, oil, and sugar. Look at the difference in ingredients. Several times the amount of sugar. It's not terrible for you, just eat it sparingly.
2006-08-21 07:55:46 · answer #10 · answered by plstkazn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋