There are more and more kinds of food, which often dazzles people.
When eating, many people will also whisper: Is this healthy?
Nutritionist Liu Pingping has a little trick: Nutritionists usually choose foods with the following 4 words carefully.
Food with [flavor]
Papaya moon cakes, milk biscuits, cherry cola…
With a word [flavor], it means that this kind of food may not have this kind of material, but only the flavor mixed with edible spices.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. Take moon cakes as an example.
CCTV has reported that many fruit-flavored moon cakes on the market are stuffed with wax gourd.
This is because, compared with fruits, wax gourd is not only easy to preserve, but also low in price. Moreover, wax gourd is light in color and taste, and is easy to be processed [camouflaged] into the required stuffing.
You can pay attention to the ingredient list of some fruit-flavored moon cakes. In front of the wax gourd row, the corresponding fruits cannot be found and are replaced by various edible flavors.
This is not illegal.
Because according to the national standard < < moon cake > > (GB 19855-2005), only when the amount of fruit and its products in the stuffing is ≥ 25% can it be called fruit moon cake.
However, if it is a [fruit-flavored] moon cake, it only refers to the taste of the food, not the real existence of this material. As long as food spices or pigments are used according to regulations, it is harmless to people.
The reason why we should be [cautious] is to remind everyone not to expect eating such moon cakes to really absorb the nutrition of certain fruits.
The same is true of other foods with the word “flavor”.
Food with [crisp] characters
Fruit and vegetable crisp slices, crisp laver rolls, crisp sausage, crisp peanuts, crisp noodles… These foods are actually fragrant and crisp because of oil.
Take fruit and vegetable crisps as an example. Many people think that they should eat more fruits and vegetables. If they replace snacks with fruit and vegetable crisps, they will be delicious and healthy. Wouldn’t they kill two birds with one stone?
However, such crisp fruit and vegetable slices (such as banana slices, crisp jujube, crisp mushroom and dried okra) are often made by vacuum frying. Although vacuum frying is safer than ordinary frying, because of the oil, fat and heat will rub up.
The fat content of freeze-dried or air-dried fruit is usually only about 1%, but the fat content of fruit crisps can be as high as 10% ~ 20%.
Eating too much fat increases the risk of obesity. For friends who have dyslipidemia or need to lose weight, don’t eat too much.
In addition, the sodium content of small foods such as crispy sausage and crisp noodles cannot be ignored.
At ordinary times, there is already a lot of salt in three meals. If you eat more such snacks, sodium will easily exceed the recommended amount. However, a high sodium diet will increase the risk of hypertension, gastric cancer, etc.
But you must pay attention.
Food with [crisp] characters
Pineapple cake, walnut cake, peanut cake, egg yolk cake… I believe everyone is familiar with these foods with the word “crisp”.
All kinds of fruits and nuts contained in “crisp” foods sound healthy, but in fact, like foods with “crisp”, they are often high in sugar, oil and calories. Eating too much is not conducive to the control of blood sugar, blood lipid and weight, and is likely to increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
Choose a pineapple cake product on the market at will and look at its ingredient list.
According to each 25g, eating two small pieces is equivalent to eating 31.5 g of carbohydrate (equivalent to a big banana), 9 g of fat (equivalent to about half of the fat amount of pork belly), and nearly 218 kilocalories (the calories of a bowl of rice).
Isn’t it a little scary?
Food with [willow] characters
Crab fillet, chicken fillet, pig fillet, beef fillet… These foods may not be real materials.
Crab willow and crab meat stick are generally not made of crab meat, but are imitated by processing minced fish meat.
There has been news exposure that some unscrupulous merchants have used duck meat as [beef fillet]. If you find beef fillet with very low price and tender taste, you should be more vigilant.
However, pork fillet pie, which is commonly used to make hamburger meat, usually adds more fat meat and appropriate amount of starch in order to achieve better taste.
Chicken itself is a healthy choice, but if it becomes a common fried chicken fillet on the streets and lanes, it will change its nature.
On the one hand, it is wrapped in thick starch; On the other hand, after frying, it will inhale a lot of oil. This bite is not only delicious, but also high in calories.
These are nutritionists’ tips.
Not that foods with these four words must not be eaten, but that these foods are not particularly [healthy].
Of course, it is OK to treat your mouth occasionally, but it is not recommended to eat it often and in large quantities.
Delicious and healthy can be balanced, depending on how smart readers balance the two ~