I wonder if there are children in the world who do not like sweets? One has only to give the little man one time to try a piece of candy and one can forget about the calm rustle of a sweet wrapper. For many children, this love passes, and some carry it through life. How often can you hear the phrase "I can’t even live a day without sweets." Despite the doctors' exhortations about the dangers of sweets on our bodies, people still remain true to their preferences.
Of course, not a single sweet tooth agrees to remove favorite cakes and sweets from his diet. Is it worth it to do? If everything is observed, then no! In addition to the danger to the teeth and figure, sweets bring a good mood to our lives. Go in for sports, observe personal hygiene and you don’t have to deprive yourself of a cup of aromatic coffee with a delicious slice of Napoleon.
The benefit of the product is in its quality
The most important thing is to observe the measure in everything and choose a quality product.
If adults sometimes can afford not to look at the composition of the purchased goods, then with baby sweets you must be extremely careful. After all, buying a very tasty, albeit not entirely healthy treat, you can get the problem much more serious than tooth decay.
Dozens of pastries on store shelves beckon and call small customers with their colorful packaging and fun shapes. Only after reading the ingredients, you understand that this is not a biscuit cake, but a time bomb for a fragile organism. The number of added E is enough for another table of elements.
Assortment replenishment
One of the latest confectioners' new products is the cute Barney cookies, in the shape of a bear. For convenience, it is packaged in a separate bag, so it is convenient to give the child a snack in school or for a walk. The popularity of this cookie was so great that manufacturers began to produce it by weight. If you believe the advertisement, this is insanely useful food for the child. Is it really?
What manufacturers say
“Barney Bear” is a very delicate biscuit and chocolate filling. Cookies are ideal for satisfying hunger, as manufacturers have done everything to balance all the ingredients correctly. In particular, mothers like it, because it is insanely useful, well, and its funny form amuses children. It’s also very tasty.
What benefits does it have? Manufacturers claim that they use only natural products and in no case - dyes. Its main advantage is the presence of calcium in the biscuit, where would a young growing organism go without it. And, of course, chocolate filling. Almost double pleasure for children - sweet in sweet.
What is a Barney cookie really?
Let's sort the cookies into components. Studying the composition of any product, you need to consider that the ingredients are arranged in descending order. That is, in the first place are the main products. The first place in the Barney mini-cookies is glucose and fructose syrup, and they are not the best friends for a feeling of fullness. The child, of course, gorges on one cookie, especially if it is washed down with juice, but the feeling of hunger will soon return to him. In addition, the frequent use of products where such syrup is in the composition is the first step to obesity.
Next comes rapeseed oil. By the standards of the food industry, only refined oil is used in confectionery. On the one hand, rapeseed is a plant that can be harmful, but on the other hand, scientists have not yet been able to prove the benefits of this product. Children's organisms are not a place for experimentation, so it is better to refrain from such components.
“Barney's Bear” is a cookie for children, so it’s good that it contains lecithin, although soy, but it is maximally cleaned and processed at a minimum temperature. It seems that there is nothing wrong, but only on the condition that manufacturers honestly and responsibly approach their work and do not use genetically modified raw materials.
Additive E450, popularly - baking powder, and in chemistry - phosphates. If you consume them excessively often and a lot, then calcium begins to be poorly absorbed in the body. Agree, not too necessary function in children's products.
“Barney Bear” has a pleasant vanilla flavor thanks to a flavor called “vanillin”. No matter how manufacturers assure us that all products are natural, the vanillin used is entirely the merit of chemists. Most chemical products contain toxic impurities. Therefore, be careful when purchasing products that include an artificial flavor, especially when children are allergic.
Summarize
It is up to a specific parent to decide how much this biscuit bear is a useful product, but reviews of Barney mini cookies indicate that not everyone is ready to buy this treat for their children. Many mothers tend not to buy sweets for children in stores at all, but to cook them themselves.
As for home baking, this is probably the best option: to please the child with delicious food and be sure of its quality. In addition, Barney cookies are very easy to make at home.
Cook at home. Tasty and healthy
To make funny bears, we don’t need so many products.
100 g butter or margarine (if possible, it is better to take high-quality butter).
1 glass of flour (maybe more, it all depends on the flour itself and the amount of other products taken).
3 eggs (always fresh).
1 tsp baking powder (or old-fashioned soda, quenched with vinegar).
Fresh (frozen) cherry. If it is not, use other favorite berries or even replace it with jam.
Sugar. It all depends on your tastes, an average of 6 tbsp. spoons.
How to cook
In the dishes with high sides, where we will prepare the Barney cookies, we drive in 3 eggs (some cooks recommend adding salt) and add sugar. Beat until sugar is completely dissolved. Then add ghee and flour, which must be sieved, mixed with baking powder. The dough should get such a consistency as for pancakes. Add vanilla sugar if desired.
Now put the dough in the molds. In the middle of the bear, put a few cherries, having previously thawed and removed the seeds. Bake the beast in the oven at a temperature of 180C.
Our “Barney Bear” is ready, you can call for children and treat yourself to a delicious and absolutely harmless treat.