Text/Xia Mo
Editor/Xia Mo
Preface
It's been a while since the winter solstice, and the New Year is getting closer.
Grandma Zhou, who is retired at home, doesn't want to wait until a few days before the Chinese New Year to grab New Year's goods with a group of people, so she has recently gone to the supermarket every few days to buy something and come back.
Seeing that Grandma Zhou is getting older, Xiaoli, a neighbor who works in the supermarket, specially taught Grandma Zhou a set of supermarket 4 principles not to buy.
helped Grandma Zhou avoid a lot of problematic products, so that Grandma Zhou's New Year's goods procurement action was very smooth.
4 things don't buy
Generally, there are medium and large supermarkets in or near many communities.
Most of the time, we buy our daily necessities or daily necessities directly from the supermarket.
However, in today's supermarkets, the routine is getting deeper and deeper.
For example, many people buy boxes of fruit, the surface of the layer looks fresh and large, but the bottom is either small or rotten.
Or they usually say that there is a discount promotion, but in fact, the price is raised for a few days in the vicinity, and the discounted product is simply about the same price as usual.
So, how can we, as consumers, avoid this?
Here are four foods that you won't buy when you go to the supermarket in the future.
1. Expiring food
It is important to know that any food has a shelf life, during which it has the best eating quality and nutritional value.
Before a food product is put on the shelves, supermarkets will go through scientific testing and control to determine the good quality and safety of the food within the shelf life.
As the expiration date approaches, the quality and taste of food tend to deteriorate, and nutrients are lost. It is actually inappropriate to buy fresh food at the same price.
Therefore, when you visit the supermarket in the future, you must first check the production date and expiration date of the food.
It is best to buy bread with a production date of the same day or the day before.
Just keep an eye on the production date and expiration date to ensure that you eat fresh food.
2. Don't buy food with too many additives
In order to add color and flavor and extend the shelf life, some foods will add various additives such as high salt, preservatives, and colorings.
Although many food additives have been tested and approved by the food regulatory authorities, there are still some additives that can have a negative impact on the human body after excessive ingestion, resulting in toxic effects on body systems, organs or cells.
For example, some people may have allergic reactions or skin problems after exposure to preservatives or food coloring.
These food additives will constantly irritate people's taste buds, making people dependent on the taste, appearance and taste of these foods containing additives.
As a result, eating other healthy foods feels too bland and tasteless, which can lead to an unbalanced diet and cause malnutrition.
3. Don't buy it if the packaging is not strict
If you find that there is a leakage and bulging bag when you are shopping for food, then don't add it to the car purchase.
This kind of food with poor packaging is susceptible to contamination from the outside world. Various harmful substances such as bacteria, mold, dust, etc., can enter the food and increase the microbial content in it, leading to food poisoning and causing the risk of food poisoning.
In addition, poor packaging may cause the food to be squeezed, deformed, or damp, which will not look and taste good.
4. Don't buy goods that are too low
Everyone must understand one thing, in the end, the supermarket is still for the purpose of profit, and if it sells goods at too low prices for no reason, it must mean that there is a problem with the goods.
Some stores may directly indicate the special sale of expiring food, but some merchants will not be kind enough to remind them, and many people still think that the supermarket is giving benefits, and they are complacent, thinking that they have picked up a bargain.
For example, we all know that seafood is expensive, but it is not uncommon to find half-price seafood in supermarkets.
That's because the seafood is no longer fresh, or has just died.
This stale seafood generally contains bacteria, viruses, or various parasites, which can easily cause microbial infections, resulting in digestive abnormalities, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms.
In severe cases, it can even cause food poisoning.
There are also some foods that are not suddenly reduced in price, but are originally very low, and these foods also need to be vigilant.
For example, there is a kind of red packaging bag intestine with three pieces for one dollar, this kind of intestine is generally blended with starch and various food coloring and additives, and you can smell a flavor when you open it, and long-term consumption is very harmful to the body.
Like some miscellaneous quick-frozen dumplings that have not heard the name, as long as a few dollars a bag has more than a dozen or twenty, and the cost price of vegetables is more than these when making dumplings at home, counting pork, and where the raw materials come from.
Don't be greedy for small gains and suffer big losses.
Supermarket shopping guide
The following is a supermarket shopping guide for you, which can not only help you save money, but also help you save worry.
1. Make a shopping list
Before going to the supermarket, it's best to think about what and how much we want to buy and make a plan.
This prevents you from taking what you see when you buy at the supermarket and end up buying something you don't really need.
2. Shop around and buy the best
Usually, if we want to buy the same thing, we can compare different brands of products of the same type.
After fully combining the price and quality of several products, choose the most cost-effective purchase.
In this way, you can prevent the purchase of counterfeit and shoddy products through full comparison, and you can also save money to a certain extent.
If there is more than one supermarket near your home, you can visit both supermarkets to see which one has better quality and cheaper products.
3. Be optimistic about the product label
When buying goods, you should also look at the information on the label on the back, such as the production date, origin, precautions, how to use, etc.
This allows us to have a more comprehensive understanding of what we are buying, so that we can judge whether it is the product we need.
Like food, you should pay extra attention to the ingredient list and expiration date.
4. Pay attention to promotional activities
In order to stimulate customer consumption, many supermarkets will have promotions every now and then, and this period is generally the most cost-effective.
However, the promotion intensity is different at different times.
If it is not an urgent item, you can wait until the supermarket is on sale to buy it, and prepare a purchase plan in advance, so that you can buy what you need at the best price.
At the same time, we should also beware of the consumption traps of merchants and consume rationally.
epilogue
I hope that when you buy in the supermarket, you can pay attention to screening these five foods.
At the same time, you should also pay attention to the purchase method when buying in the supermarket.
I hope everyone can buy good food at a good price.