Blue-Frosted Cake Donuts

I am against blue-frosted cake donuts. Before I begin the debate, I would like to say that the spelling of "Donut" is merely the shortened term of "Doughnut" in persuasive American English, and that a "Donut" has the same overall definition and description as a "Doughnut". Don't even try to nail me on that one. Also I would like to remind my opposition that this is a one-round debate, so throw everything you have to say out there. As I was saying, I am against blue-frosted cake donuts, for a number of reasons. I will first evaluate on the nutritional value approach of a cake donut: *The average plain cake donut has 18-19 grams of fat, with 9 grams of saturated fat. Based on the average, 2,000 calorie per day diet, this is 46% of your daily value of saturated fat-nearly half in one simple treat. *Backtracking to the total fat amount, on the average 2,000 calorie per day diet, one cake donut equals out to 30% of your daily value of fat. That means eating three cake donuts and, say, 3 munchkins, would suffice for your daily value of total fat. *An average cake donut has 280 calories, with 160 calories from fat. More than half of the calories in this cake donut are from fat (about 57%). Also, the average plain cake donut, in a calories per gram outlook, has 125% more calories per gram in fat than in those of carbohydrates or protein, 25% more in fats alone than these two combined. *The average plain cake donut is NOT a significant source of: Vitamin A Vitamin C Calcium Dietary Fiber Protein Ah, yes, the wonders of a plain cake donut. However, I have yet to discuss the joys of a FROSTED cake donut, and I will do so now: *In the average frosted cake donut, the icing alone brings the calorie level up from 280 to 330, and the fat calorie level by 10. Alas, the calories from fat percentage is still over half the amount. *To add the extra goodness of the icing taste, thrown into the mix is high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, corn syrup, maltodextrin, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (which isn't all that much of an improvement from regularly hydrogenated oil-see link below), and artifical flavor. Big focus on the high fructose corn syrup, the HFCS. This sweetener, which, for the most part, replaced natural sugar in many a' product, is made from genetically modified enzymes, in order to keep the product stable. Rather than chowing down on pure, sugar cane icing, one is really eating frosting of the fake McCoy. On top of that, this syrupy mixture is as unhealthy as they come; when fed to rats in an experiment, over a short period of time, these rodents developed anemia, high cholesterol, liver and testes swelling, and heart hypertrophy, a deadly infection where their hearts enlarged until they combusted. Imagine what an excess of this virtual poison could do to humans! The second link has more on HFCS: http://www.treelight.com... http://www.westonaprice.org... *The average frosted cake donut is STILL NOT a significant source of: Vitamin A Vitamin C Calcium Dietary Fiber Protein *If the frosted cake donut was indeed of the blue color, than artificial food coloring would have to be used to illustrate this hue. Artificial food coloring is emerging as a new danger to consumers, and is being pulled off the market in a fast flurry. Yellow #2 food coloring has just been pulled off the markets, as it revealed to be a cause of cancer, ADHD, and male sterility. The link below has more: http://science-news.org... Now that I've uncovered the nutritional cons of blue-frosted cake donuts, let's take this from an economical aspect: *Where is one most likely to buy these delectably fattening blue-frosted cake donuts? Most likely at a Dunkin' Donuts, Honey Dew, Winchell's, Krispy Kreme, Tim Horton's, or wheverer you take the liberty of passing through a drive-thru to order a coffee and donut. These donut chains are corporate beasts, and rake in millions of dollars each year selling their fattening products. But with the economic downturn that we've been experiencing over the past few years, even though President Bush has yet to declare a national recession, it is time that we clamp down and start saving. What do we owe these corporate giants enough to pour our wallets out into them, when many of us are dogged by credit card debt, mortgage payments and student loans? People all around us are losing their homes via foreclosure, somewhat in part to the fact they chose to empty out their savings for frivolous purposes such as blue-frosted cake donuts rather than paying off their loans. The answer to the economic downturn, and avoiding another great depression, is not to spend and spend, but to save and spend, using the latter on more important issues. *I also mentioned that we buy these products via drive-thru. Let me illustrate the picture of a drive-thru; 3 kids piled in the backseat screaming, a frazzled mother trying to give her order to the speakerbox, taking a pause every so often to scream back at the kids. After the sugary snacks have been ordered, the kids will continue to be hyper and filled with shrill screams, answered back by the mother's desperate wails. On top of that, she is wasting precious gas money by leaving her engine running in the drive-thru line, and driving back home. A more ideal solution to this would be to lead the kids into the serene setting of the kitchen, and hold a family cake donut-fry for the afternoon. One would get to choose healthier ingredients over what the corporate giants shove into your food, the kids generate and store valuable memories of cooking with mom (or dad), and all is enjoyed in the open environment of one's home, rather than a cramped, stuffy car. Also, one saves precious gas money, and the home-cooked ingredients of a cake donut should be far less than what they charge you at the drive-thru. "Okay," you think, "He's shown that you can still enjoy a blue-frosted cake donut, if you make the proper adjustments. Therefore he has contradicted himself, and I should win this debate easily." Au contraire, my opposition. I still have yet to elaborate on the vital point of this debate-the blue frosting. I have said before that artificial coloring is put into this icing concoction, and that alone makes it less to be desired. However, there is a difference in the blue frosting portion on the cake donut than a pink, white, brown, or green frosting on the same cake donut. That difference is the simple fact that Mother Nature has produced natural foods of all colors-all but blue (blueberries are actually a shade of purple). Limes are green, bananas are yellow, and apples are green and red, but as far as food goes, nothing is naturally blue. Studies have shown that children who drink foods such as Blue Kool-Aid and other artifical blue substances have been led in their later lives to seek out substances of the same color to eat, and have often been deprived of natural taste. Blue-frosted cake donuts can lead to the same effect, and can stray children away from natural, healthy foods. For the sake of the nationwide health, economy and safety of our children, I am against blue-frosted cake donuts. Opposition?