Have you been fooled by these food concepts?

Field Expert:
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, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, School of Food, China Agricultural University, Ph.D. in Food Science.since the implementation of food nutrition labeling regulations nationwide this year, many consumers have significantly increased their nutritional awareness, know how to look at labels. However, there are still many friends who have not yet learned to look at nutrition and ingredients lists, or have misunderstood certain concepts, and continue to be fooled by various " concepts
. Here's a few questions that consumers have been asking more recently.1
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No Trans Fatty Acids
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Cookie Snacks Many people now go to the shelves to buy sweet snacks snacks, will pay attention to see the content of trans fatty acids. If it's zero, feel free to buy it and go home, thinking it'll be healthier. In fact, even if trans fatty acids are really zero, those high-fat, high-sugar, high-calorie snacks are not worth eating often, such as pie, egg tarts, cookies, cookies, peach crisps, crispy snacks, bread and so on.Although studies have shown that trans fatty acids strongly promote cardiovascular disease and obesity, all fats have the ability to gain weight, especially those rich in saturated fatty acids, and eating more also increases blood lipids and increases the risk of many chronic diseases. At present, the oil industry technology can be made almost no trans fatty acids of plant ghee, cake oil, margarine and other products, however, these are specifically used to make snack biscuits, to produce a crispy taste, are semi-solid oil, in which the saturated fat content is no less than lard. Do you think it's healthy to make a lot of lard with a lot of sugar? Occasional New Year's Day to eat a few times is just, do not because of


zero trans fat
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and indulge themselves.2
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non-GMOcooking oilall fats, are in addition to fat and
VE
almost no other nutrients, and fat content of up to
99.9%
. Whether it's genetically modified cooking oils or not, there's not much difference in increasing food calories and fattening people. If because the label

not-GMOwill rest assured to eat special food, diligently make fried food, fried food, pasta and so on, fried vegetables spoonfuls of oil, grow a fat meat, then from diabetes, heart disease, gallstones, bowel cancer and other diseases will be closer.genetically modified food itself, which has been evaluated for safety, is not that scary. No toxic substances have been found in genetically modified soybean oil, nor have they been found to be particularly harmful. If it has to say that it is harmful, the biggest harm is the high rate of oil production of imported genetically modified soybeans, the cost of oil extracted is low, so that many people because ofnot bad moneyand give up more oil. If you only eat dozens of dollars a pound of teaseed oil and olive oil, it will be because of the reluctant to pay a large price, cooking less oil. In this way, not only to help control blood lipid monounsaturated fatty acids, but also effectively reduce the intake of fat, people will also beless oil
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and reduce the risk of obesity, high blood lipids.3
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Supered sugar
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sweet cereal recently did a TV show, asking the choreographer to prepare oatmeal, the result is that powdered slice of
"
nutrition cereal
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. These products have nothing to do with oats at all, a large number of which are sugar and paste, and the fragrance comes from flavor. As a result, many consumers choose to buy cereals known aswithout added sucroseor even
without sugar
. Unfortunately, most of the time they buy only

malt syrup
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as a substitute for sucrose, or a combination of
plus
sweeteners. Malt syrup is also good, pastetrin is good, in raising blood sugar than sucrose will only be stronger, and nutrient content is not any health advantage. be sure to make it clear that cereal is not equal to oatmeal, sugar-free is not equal to the rate of rise in hypoglycemia. Instead of eating such pseudo-health concept products, eat pure oatmeal directly, add your own walnut crushed almonds to add flavor, plus raisins and meat to sweeten, the nutritional value will be much higher, and the blood sugar reaction will be much lower. 4
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national health
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fruit and vegetable dry many people will have a healthy image of fruit and vegetable dry heart. Whether it is crispy and crisp integrated fruit and vegetable dried, or a variety of blueberry dried simegan strawberries dried holy girl fruit dried kiwi dried, etc. , all feel that eating more is beneficial to health. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. fruit and vegetable dried is actually a low-temperature fried product, that is, its crispy taste, is from the deep-fried. Although vacuum frying is not as easy to produce harmful substances as ordinary frying, but in the area of oil absorption is not too much. The so-called deep-fried dehydration, is in the process of frying, let the water boil and remove, while grease seeps into the food. Therefore, in reducing water content and drying food, but also greatly increase the fat content. Fruits and vegetables are products with a fat content of less than
1%
, but when fried dehydrated, they can be as high as
10%
or even
15% or more
. In addition to the large amount of sugar concentrated after drying, plus a lot of fat, think about it, people who need to control their weight can't eat more of these snacks. many so-called
"
fruit dry
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, in fact, is also fruit refueling and sugar products, sugar has increased a lot. If you don't add sugar, fruits like blueberries, cranberries and kiwis taste too sour to taste good when they dry. Although they do have some health value, but because of the addition of a large amount of sugar, the health effects will be somewhat discounted, eating also need to limit. Want to know whether there is sugar in the dried fruits and vegetables refueling, very simple, just look at the ingredients list on the product packaging to know. 5
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children-only
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food many foods marked children
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, what children's soy sauce, children's vinegar, children's noodles, children's milk and so on. In fact, the country does not have the relevant standard requirements for children's food, these two words can almost be used at will. Buy a bottle of so-called children's soy sauce at a time, nothing but a smaller bottle. Take a closer look at the nutrition label, the sodium content is not low at all, did not find any advantage. Then look at the children's hanging noodles, some are good, strengthen some micronutrients, while other products are just a little shorter, salt is not less, nutritional value is not much higher. Even some products, just add more sugar, add more flavor, paint some cartoon characters on the packaging, and put some small cards and small toys and other techniques to attract children, there is no additional benefit to health. as a consumer of children's parents, it is easy to be attracted by the words
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Toddlers
", "

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and so on. They think it's perfectly understandable that children need products that are specially designed for their nutritional requirements. However, the production of these products enterprises, really consulted the relevant nutrition professionals, really take into account the special health needs of young children? If there is no such sincere considerate, but just take the word child as a matter of things, it is a bit of a gimmick.