Vani Hari has 2.3 million followers on Instagram, and about as many ideas for healthy food swaps. An entrepreneur and influential food activist in the Make America Healthy Again movement, Hari gives regular shoutouts to substitutes for snacks that contain corn syrup, seed oils, and other ingredients on health-conscious Americans’ blacklist.
For Valentine’s Day , YumEarth choco yums instead of artificially dyed M&Ms. (“Let me say these treats are BETTER, but they are still candy,” Hari writes.) For Super Bowl parties , Jackson’s avocado oil potato chips rather than Lay’s.
Looking for a less processed alternative to Chick-fil-A’s frosted lemonade ? Why not make your own with lemon-flavored protein powder from Hari’s own brand, Truvani.
At least one attempt at a healthy food swap struck out with Hari: PepsiCo’s recently debuted dye-free line of Cheetos and Doritos. “This is dumb,” she wrote on Instagram.
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