On the pulse

When a bag of chocolate chip cookies arrived at my door, my first thought?

“Score!”

It was as if the sweets gods had heard my grumbling belly.

And then I read on that package that these yummy looking cookies were made using beans…and I’ll admit it, the notion made me a tad queasy. (I don’t follow any type of restricted diet, so the idea of beans in cookies is a new one to me).

But I’ve eaten stranger things (I’d tried brains for the very first time at Buca restaurant–my new favourite restaurant btw–a few nights before). And so down the hatch one cookie went and it was soft and chewy and totally did not taste bean-y whatsoever) and it totally hit just the right sweet spot.

These gluten-free chocolate chip cookies were sent to me from Genuine Health. Their new Transform+ Pulse revolves around “pulse foods”–a term I’ve come to learn means beans, peas, lentils and chickpeas.

The beauty of pulse foods are that they’re way filling, as I was told by Bruce Krahn, Toronto-based personal trainer and author of the Fat Fighter Diet, given that they are high in fibre and protein. Which makes them a fantastic choice if you’re trying to get svelte for the beach as you can just have one cookie and feel full.

Even better, pulse foods have been shown to reduce risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

The downside? If you’re looking to get your pulse foods in cookie format, you’ll have to bake them up yourself. For a quickie hit of it, though, the Transform+ Pulse ($29.99 for 297-gram bottle) hits shelves in July.

7 Comments May 18, 2010