To get the required amount of vitamin A, you need to eat a few kilograms of carrots per day. But at the same time you can get such a "shock" dose of nitrates that it will have to recover from it for a long time. Diathesis and irritation of the digestive tract, dyspepsia and brittle bones - all this and much more "pleases" even lovers of a super-healthy lifestyle.
The European Union is already much more attentive to "healthy" products. Food from cereals and bran, with the content of forest berries and rare tropical fruits ... Is it so useful, as it seems at first glance?
Already, a strict commission of 70 examined items with a mark on the label "Healthy" was rejected by 54. They were obliged to remove the beautiful inscription. And there is still so much work ahead ...
But that is Europe. And in our post-Soviet space things are much worse. There is a global problem: the danger and usefulness of food products are so often that you have to be a real chemist-technologist to understand them.
Let's read the labels together to easily understand the nuances of "usefulness."
Dairy products - not so milk!
Notice how the dairy products are called. Curd "Gentle", yogurtter, a can of sour cream and other diminutive names are not a concern for customers. The purpose to cause a rush of feelings is secondary, and the main thing is to avoid severe GOSTs, OSTs and TU. They clearly prescribe the content of different substances in dairy products - curd, yogurt or sour cream. It has grown to a global problem, the danger and usefulness of food in the store goes hand in hand.
In this dairy product - a small content of milk and much more - all E. Starch, vegetable fats, preservatives and sweeteners. But "butter" (if the producer wants to write it proudly on the label) should consist of cream! And ice cream - from milk and butter!
The approximate cost of producing such a natural briquette is very high. So, for the sake of economy and for the benefit of the forest, it will be necessary to call them somehow differently, bypassing the "evil" standards.
Low fat - adds fat to the waist!
Another component of the global problem of the danger and usefulness of food is the inability to cover the entire chain of all the "actors" at once. We believe, "buy" on the promise of low-fat, and hence - dietary products. No matter how it is!
This low-fat cottage cheese - a rather complex, specific taste. He has a special dry texture, freshly curdled cottage cheese is very unpleasant. Therefore, manufacturers go all-in: "picking" all the fats, in return, saturate the product with carbohydrates. Sugars and starch for tenderness, flavors ...
So "useful" cottage cheese becomes the main fighter for waist growth, while contributing to the development of serious diseases - from premature aging to heart disease and Alzheimer's.
On sweet - sweets without sugar
Very quickly, many understand the danger of carbohydrate products, the usefulness of which is questionable: the global problem for nutrition in this case is an excess of sugars. Producers learned how to deal with sugar - there were "useful" sugar substitutes.
But what really happens in the body under the influence of these sweet chocolates, "safe" for the waist?
- the body receives food, signaling a high calorie content with its sweet taste
- instead of the promised calories, the body receives a pacifier
- and reacts to this with an increased sense of hunger.
In addition, many sugar substitutes at high temperatures (above 25-27 ° C) fall into very "vigorous" substances. Even in small amounts they are poisons for humans. But even in cold weather the temperature of a person's body is still higher than this range.
So we get poisons instead of benefits, and are forced to somehow adapt to them ...
Unfortunately, no manufacturer from the entire huge food industry brought the semblance of a "Hippocratic oath". They do not promise to "do no harm" to us, consumers. And we, accordingly, are forced to grow claws, fend off substandard products, even if they are advertised on TV around the clock, promising "unearthly lightness" in the stomach or cheerful joy with a waffle cake in an embrace.