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Indeed. Quaker chewy granola is identified (by price -- $0.15) as a good food, which may be true if you're out hiking, but as part of an urban lifestyle, granola bars are a glycemic disaster.

By contrast, someone who eats an otherwise moderately healthy diet can eat the caloric equivalent of several granola bars worth of walnuts -- identified by google as a "yellow" food -- with no ill effects, and certainly no insulin spike.



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