With forecasters predicting a warm July and summer holidays looming, many people will be swapping their chocolate bars for so-called healthy snacks.
However, many of these diet favourites may be worse for your waistline than you think.
Dietitians at Tesco have compiled a list of the top traps that catch out unsuspecting dieters.
These include the unlikely culprits of honey, olive oil, fruit juice, and low-fat yoghurt.
Catherine Matthews, nutritionist at Tesco Diets, said that fruit juice is ‘the fastest way to gain weight’.
She said: ‘It takes less than a minute for most people to drink 150 calories.’
Another issue is fruit juice's lack of fibre. When we eat fruit, fibre forms a protective layer that acts as a barrier to the intestine. This slows absorption of sugar, so the liver can to deal with the sugar steadily.
In fizzy drinks, fruit juices and smoothies, the barrier has gone, which leads to the liver being overloaded.
This triggers two things: Firstly, this overload provides a sudden burst of energy which very quickly tapers off, leading to what many experts describe as a 'sugar crash'. This can cause many people to end up feeling lethargic, irritable and even more hungry than they did before.
Secondly the high levels of fructose - fruit sugar - that are not burned off are converted to fat.
And if you thought smoothies were better, you'd be wrong.
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