Nutella: the ingredients that hinder our health

Sugar fuelled spreads may tickle our taste buds, but the effective example to your right resembles the reality of how manufacturers manipulate our favourite foods in order to convince us that we're about to consume a relatively 'healthy' tasty treat.

Although Nutella does contain hazelnuts, the majority of this speedy spread is made up of palm oil - a vegetable oil that is also found in certain cosmetics and toiletries - and an abundance of the sweet stuff that we need to be slashing from our daily diet.

Instead of presuming that your preferred food product is 'healthy' because it claims to contain nuts, fruit or vital vitamins and minerals, take a closer look at it's nutritional content to pin point just how many of it's proclaimed 'health enhancing' properties are overwhelmed by the bad stuff that not only hinders our health, but damages our dress size as well.