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Qianqian has been working in the supermarket for 6 years, belongs to a very senior supermarket salesman, she works in a large supermarket, often receives training from various manufacturers, so the understanding of food ingredients is still relatively deep.
Once I went to a friend's house with Qianqian to eat, I found that there was a bottle of prepared vinegar in his kitchen and said, how do you buy this vinegar?
You have to learn to look at the packaging, there are some foods in the supermarket that are very cheap, but if you find that the packaging has these words, you must not buy them, especially not for the children, and she will never buy these foods in her own home.
On the food packaging, if you see these words, you can't buy them even if they are cheap
1. Prepare vinegar or soy sauce
If you are buying vinegar or soy sauce, you find that there are two words "prepared" do not buy!
"Prepared" vinegar in the brewing process will add glacial acetic acid, sodium benzoate or preservatives, etc., the production cost is much lower than brewing vinegar and brewing soy sauce, so the price is also much cheaper.
However, the preparation of vinegar or the preparation of soy sauce may produce chloropropanol during the preparation process, which is toxic and is not conducive to the health of the body.
Especially children are more sensitive, do not buy prepared vinegar or soy sauce, be sure to buy "brewed" vinegar or soy sauce.
2. Noodles with sodium carbonate in the ingredient list
The addition of sodium carbonate, or "baking soda", to the noodles can make the noodles more tough and taste better.
Therefore, some adult noodles will add sodium carbonate, but in fact, adding sodium carbonate will destroy the nutrients in the noodles, and it will also affect the absorption of vitamins and minerals, resulting in indigestion.
In the noodles for children, be sure not to buy "sodium carbonate" in the ingredient list.
In addition to avoiding the purchase of noodles containing sodium carbonate, buy noodles for children, try to buy low-sodium noodles for children, that is, look at the sodium content in the nutrition facts table to be as low as possible, because children need less sodium, to eat lighter.
3. Milk contains white sugar
It is recommended that the milk given to the child is preferably pure milk, that is, the ingredient list contains only "raw cow's milk".
It is not recommended to buy some high-calcium milk or concocted milk, which will add white sugar or some other ingredients, and even add some flavors, which will invisibly reduce the protein of milk, and is not conducive to the child's dental health.
It is enough to buy milk ingredients for your child, not other ingredients.
4, yogurt contains drinks
Buy yogurt for children, do not buy yogurt drinks or beverages, most of these drinks or beverages are water plus a small amount of milk, plus acidulants, sweeteners, there are very few milk ingredients in it, and the protein content is only about 1%.
There is not much benefit to the child's health, but it will cause the child to fall in love with this sweet and sour taste, affect the child's appetite, and lead to the child's picky eating anorexia.
When buying food for children, parents should keep these principles in mind in order to make the baby eat healthy
Principle 1: Do not have white sugar as much as possible
Buy milk, yogurt or small snacks for children, pay attention to the ingredient list, try to choose foods that do not contain white sugar, foods containing white sugar will affect the health of children's teeth, and will also lead to obesity of children, and sugar is a burden on the health of children's bodies.
Principle two: Do not contain trans fatty acids
For example, the ingredient list has words such as hydrogenated vegetable oil, margarine, vegetable butter, margarine, vegetable cream, creamer, vegetable fat powder, wheat qi cream, hydrogenated fat, refined vegetable oil, cocoa butter, etc., indicating that it contains trans fatty acids.
Trans fatty acids are harmful to children's health, so parents should look at the ingredient list as much as possible when buying food for their children, and it will be healthier to choose those that do not contain these ingredients.
Principle three: Sodium in the nutrition facts table should be low
The General Principles of Nutrition for Prepackaged Foods stipulate that the nutritional content list should be indicated in the prepackaged food, and the nutritional composition table must have a sodium content.
Children need 700 mg of sodium per day from one to three years old, and 900 mg of sodium per day from four to six years old.
And the rice, meat, and vegetables we eat every day will contain a certain amount of sodium, plus the child will add a small amount of salt when cooking after the age of one.
One gram of salt contains nearly 400 mg of sodium, and a child's need for sodium can already meet two grams of salt a day.
If the sodium content is relatively high when choosing food for children, it is easy to cause children to exceed sodium standards.
In general, the food bought for the child, as far as possible is fresh raw materials back to make their own, and when buying easy-to-package food for the child, as far as possible, choose some more natural, less ingredients.
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