I accidentally packed my travel food in my checked bag instead of my carry-on for today's flight home, so I was stuck with airplane food if I wanted to eat.

I was hungry, so I chose what I thought would be the healthiest thing on the airplane to eat: the fruit tray.

My logic was simple.

Fruit is good, healthy food.

I'm ordering a tray of fruit.

Therefore, I will have a tray of good, healthy food.

WRONG!

My tray had a lot of food but not much fruit.

Let's break it down.

Two blackberries.

One strawberry, halved.

One slice of pineapple, cut in thirds.

Four thin slices of melon.

That's it for the fruit.

Next up was the Lemon Berry Chia Loaf Slice, purporting to be a perfect snack with "Goodness On The Go" and chia seeds that the label says are a "power food."

But let's look at the ingredients.

#1 - Refined Sugar

#2 - Soybean Oil

It gets worse from there - artificial colors and flavors, gums, and enough preservative that it's listed before the lemons, berries, or chia seeds.

But, hey, at least it's got almost as much chia seed as corn syrup!

Checking the nutrition info, I see 29 grams of added sugar.

Then we have yogurt.

Refined sugar is the 2nd ingredient here, and there are 7 grams of it in this 113-gram package or about 6% by volume.

Lastly, we have some granola to add another 2 grams of processed sugar to the meal.

So, not counting the fruit, we've got:

Calories: 530

Total Weight: 291 grams

Total Added Sugar: 38 grams

That's only 1 gram less of sugar than a 12 oz Coke.

It's nearly TEN teaspoons!

And therein lies the problem.

At glance, this looks to be a healthy breakfast of grains, fruits, and seeds.

But the reality is you'd be better off with a damn Snickers for breakfast.

I wish this were only an airplane/airport deal, but it's not.

While in Arizona, I stopped at a local grocery store to pick up food for the camping trip. They had a "healthy snacks" section where sugar was the first or second ingredient in nearly every product.

But the manufacturers don't care.

They're not in it for our health; they are in it for their money.

And they know if they get the packaging just right, our suspended disbelief will kick in, and we'll happily pretend to eat healthy while consuming massive quantities of junk food.