With the improvement of living standards, our diet has gradually diversified. But whether it is a supermarket or a store, some foods are really not recommended to buy, otherwise you may be caught in the merchant's routine if you are not careful.
The following foods, no matter what brand, but where these words appear on the packaging, it is recommended that you buy with caution!
There are many brands of chocolate, and the tastes are not the same. But when buying chocolate, you still have to look at a key ingredient - cocoa butter.
Cocoa butter as the essence of chocolate, the higher its content means that the chocolate is more "genuine". Cocoa butter is a product made from pure cocoa beans and through a series of processes, containing unsaturated fatty acids, which have antioxidant functions and are beneficial to health.
However, cocoa butter production is limited, and it is not easy to preserve, and the price is expensive. Therefore, many chocolates will use "cocoa butter" as raw materials, although the two taste similar, but cocoa butter in the hydrogenation process, will produce a large number of trans fatty acids.
We have talked about the harm of trans fatty acids many times, the first of which is to endanger cardiovascular health and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. The second is that cocoa butter contains a lot of calories, and long-term consumption will cause excessive obesity.
Tip: When buying chocolate, be sure to see whether it is cocoa butter or cocoa butter written!
Eating steak outside was a bit expensive, so I went to the supermarket to buy steak and fried it myself. As everyone knows, most of the steaks bought here are synthetic!
Synthetic steaks have been reported more than once in the media, and synthetic steaks generally use food additives such as carrageenan and xanthan gum. Its role is to glue the minced meat together to form a complete piece of meat.
In addition to carrageenan, there is also an additive called tgase. The full name of the tg enzyme is glutamine transaminase, and its role is to catalyze the crosslinking between protein molecules, but also to recombine minced meat.
Recommendation: The next time you buy steaks and steaks, you can look at the ingredient list, the original cut meat ingredient list has only one word on it - meat!
In fact, many of the "milk" we buy are not milk in the true sense. According to the national standard, the protein content of pure milk is greater than 2.9%, but many milks on the market do not meet this standard, especially some breakfast milk.
The protein content of breakfast milk is generally about 2.3%, and this is a concocted milk. According to the standard, the solid content of the modulated milk is not less than 70%, and other raw materials or food additives and nutritional enhancers are added. Although the taste is sweet, the protein content of the prepared milk is much lower.
In addition, this kind of concocted milk is best not to give the child to drink, because the addition of additional added sugar and additives will aggravate the child's taste. Long-term drinking may also cause your child to become obese and increase the chance of caries.
Recommendation: When buying milk, prefer pure milk, and choose carefully with prepared milk!
Potato chips are divided into barreled potato chips and bagged potato chips, don't think that there is no difference between the two, in fact, the difference can be big!
Bagged potato chips tend to taste better, but the shape is not very good; while the barreled potato chips taste better than the bagged potato chips, but the shape is generally kept relatively intact. The secret is that most of the drums of potato chips are made from potato flour.
When making barreled potato chips, potato flour is generally used as raw material and accompanied by starch, and there is a unified mold after the production is completed. So barreled potato chips can't be called "real potato chips."
In addition, because the barrel potato chips are made of potato flour, there will be more types of additives, after all, in order to better shape and crisp.
Recommendation: The ingredient list of genuine potato chips should be "potatoes", no matter what potato chips, it is recommended to eat less, after all, the energy, fat and salt content of such snacks are quite high.
Unexpectedly, even yogurt is true and false. No matter what kind of yogurt, the taste is definitely good, but "real yogurt" has nutrition, and "fake yogurt" has a very low nutritional content or even no nutrition at all.
When we buy yogurt, we will find "xx lactic acid bacteria drink" and "xx lactic acid bacteria drink", do not hesitate, but when we see the words "drink" and "drink", that is", "fake yogurt".
Recommendation: Real yogurt, the top of the ingredient list is generally raw milk, beneficial bacteria. If the ingredient list of water and sugar is in front of the milk, then this is a "sugar water drink" and is not recommended to buy.
0 fat: Some foods will be marked "0 fat" on the packaging, this time to be careful, "0 fat" does not mean "0 sugar"! And those "0 fat" foods are often high in sugar.
0 sugar: "Sugar-free" does not mean that there is no sugar, it may just be that there is no sucrose and starch sugar, etc. At this time, you should pay attention to whether there are other sugar substitutes in it, such as maltitol, sorbitol and xylitol.
0 Preservatives: Contains no preservatives, but may contain antioxidants. In addition, if a certain food is labeled as having no preservatives, you should pay attention to whether there is salt or sugar in it, after all, salt and sugar are also good "preservatives".
0 trans fatty acids: According to the regulations, every 100g of trans fatty acids contained in food is less than or equal to 0.3g, which can be labeled as "0", so it does not mean that there is no such thing. In addition, after the reduction of trans fatty acids, some manufacturers will increase the amount of saturated fatty acids for taste, which is also not conducive to health!
This is an article that will offend many manufacturers, and dr.x understands better than offending people what is the responsibility of being a popular science author.
These foods are closely related to us, and I hope that everyone can polish their eyes when purchasing. Don't end up spending money and buying an "IQ tax"!