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Doughnuts are unhealthy?[edit]

This is a sweeping and not very logical statement attached only to one reference. Doughnuts are not poisonous. Where properly made they are (usually) a treat food providing mostly fuel and not much nutrition, and they should be consumed in moderation - like everything else.

Can I suggest that the statement that they are unhealthy should be replaced with a more nuanced statement about what they contain and what function they play in a diet?

I have just spent some time trying to encourage an underweight person to eat more sweet snacks if that is what she feels she can take in. She has been so pressured to think these snacks are bad, and that she's bad if she eats a lot of them, that the fact that at this moment simple, sweet food is exactly what she needs, is not getting through. If she added several doughnuts a day to her current food intake, that would almost certainly be a considerable improvement to the healthiness of her diet in her current circumstances.

It does matter that what is written on food recognises the subjectivity of what is needed, and therefore of what is "healthy" in different circumstances. FloweringOctopus (talk) 07:38, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 26 July 2023[edit]

There is a requested move at Talk:Donut holes#Requested move 26 July 2023 that may interest readers of this page. Sdrqaz (talk) 07:57, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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In the intro, please replace “type of food” with “type of pastry”.https://books.google.com/books?id=-3zSEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=is+a+donut+a+pastry&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjn1pffuoGEAxVCl2oFHXv8DBYQ6AF6BAgIEAM 2600:100C:A218:92ED:1C3C:4E21:7A67:E263 (talk) 01:40, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done
— Urro^{[talk][edits]} 14:58, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Commons[edit]

If anyone is interested, an image of an Italian ciambella should be added to the ciambella page (note: Italian ciambella, so not American donut, etc.). JacktheBrown (talk) 10:20, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Too American focused[edit]

E.g.

Common varieties include the Boston cream, coconut, key lime, and jelly.

Outside the US are ANY of these flavours popular? Boston Cream - definitely no. Coconut - probably no. Key Lime - definitely no. Jelly - only in in the US is jam called jelly.

This is just one example. Overall the perspective is American. 79.129.53.49 (talk) 07:39, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]