31 Everyday Foods That Are Terrible for Your Health (Avoid Them at All Costs)

5. Frozen breakfast sandwiches

Jimmy Dean has been marketing their ‘Delights’ breakfast sandwiches as healthy, quick breakfast alternatives.

But let’s take a closer look at the ‘turkey sausage, egg, and cheese on honey wheat flatbread’ option. With over 30 ingredients like soybean oil, preservatives like calcium propionate and distilled monoglycerides, azodicarbonamide (ADA), soy protein concentrate, and additives like annatto and soy lecithin, there’s nothing delightful about these sandwiches.

6. Turkey bacon

Who can resist the salty crunch of perfectly cooked bacon in the morning?

I had to see if trying a ‘healthier’ version of bacon would quench my desire for the fatty pork variety. Since turkey is a lean meat that’s also low in cholesterol, I figured it would be a no-brainer switch.

But then I checked the ingredient label. Apparently it takes a lot to turn turkey into faux bacon.

For example, the ingredient label on an Oscar Mayer package of turkey bacon shows there’s more than just turkey. There’s potassium lactate (also used in fire suppressants and leather preserving), potassium chloride, sodium diacetate, smoke flavor, sodium ascorbate, autolyzed yeast extract, sodium nitrite, and soy lecithin.

Okay, I don’t think we’ll be eating that again…