Subway (cont)

Subway Vegetables, Condiments & Cookies: there are 2 vegetables I would recommend that you avoid. Firstly, ( according to their web site),  the Jalapeno Pepper and Pickles both  contain Tartrazine (102)- a suspected carcinogen & coal tar dye. Secondly, the pickles contain Sodium Benzoate (211). See previous post on this preservative.

Condiments: the 'better' choices of condiments seem to be the sweet chilli sauce & tomato sauce. Good to see only 5 ingredients in the tomato sauce- however, sugar & salt are number 2 & 3 respectively, & 'natural flavours' 5th! But, at least there is no artificial  preservatives.  Preservative 202, 211 & 220 are present in all the other sauces.

Cookies: As was mentioned a few days ago by two of my readers both the Chocolate Chip & Double Chocolate Chip cookies contain the solvent Ethanol. This is so disappointing to see in a product marketed to our children. No surprises in the M & M cookies though, as the cheap coal tar dyes  (102,110, 129,132, 133) are still in our M & M's. In the U.K. Nestle has removed these dangerous dyes from their Smarties range. Here's hoping our government food regulator (FSANZ) will do the same very soon for all our confectionery, cordials, jellies, yogurts, icecreams etc.
(Smoothies- to be continued tomorrow).