Bran Muffins

When you’re walking by the baked goods aisle of your grocery store, or driving by your local bakery, sometimes you get that itch that you just need to scratch. But once you’re perusing the baked goods, you realize that you still want to make the healthiest choice possible. So you opt for a bran muffin. Eeehhh. Wrong.

While bran muffins usually contain the fiber that you’re in seek of, they also contain added sugar and bad fats in the form of low-quality oils. If you really want the healthiest baked good available to you, you’ll likely have to bake it yourself.

Otherwise ask the baker if they have anything made with pure applesauce and honey as sweeteners, and try to find out which oils have been used in the baking process. While these questions might seem annoying, they’re far less annoying than the damage you’d be doing to your body by blindly consuming that bran muffin.