At Marc Bony Chiropractic Center, we promote holistic natural health. Find out how processed foods can affect your well-being and what healthy alternatives you can consider.
Food specialist and technologist Laura Saavedra assures that «we have food in the fridge that is not food. Here we find: sausages, pates, dairy desserts, pastries, cookies, snacks, etc. and other processed foods that include additives and poor quality ingredients».
Saavedra says: “Many people think that when they eat turkey or ham they are taking care of themselves, but these two products have an unjustified reputation for being healthy. What's more, these processed meat derivatives have between 60% and 80% of meat”. And what fills in the rest?
Saavedra points out that these very inexpensive products always carry the worst quality meats, that is to say, discards,” something that could also apply to sausages. He also comments that price is always an indicator of the quality we buy.
“We would never eat industrial processed products again if we knew how and what they were made of.”
Sausages
The WHO is categorical: both meat and meat by-products could be carcinogenic”. This category includes all except salted ham, but the rest, such as mortadella, “is the worst ground pork meat, with grease injected, salts and additives”. We conclude by saying that it is advisable to avoid as far as possible any meat derivative.
Most sausages are made from pork meat mixed with fats from bacon or liver (in the case of mortadella), artificial flavorings and colorings, low-quality starch, salt, dextrose and, in very many cases, also powdered milk.
Pâtés
Pâté contains pork liver, pâté contains a large amount of starch, bacon and meat discards, as well as low quality flour, milk proteins, stabilizers and salt. The WHO recommends to take maximum 5g of salt per day in adults, well a dessert spoonful of pâté contains about 20% of this amount and we add to it nitrites y, monosodium glutamate (associated with cancer, fibromyalgia, etc.), a flavor enhancer widely used in many processed products.
Dairy desserts
According to Saavedra, dairy desserts are not free from harmful additives such as sugar or sweeteners. In fact “A yogurt (125g) with sugar contains 13% of sugar, that is two sachets”. This is an outrageous amount considering that the WHO recommends a maximum intake of 20g to 25g per day. And if we also take into account the products that contain sugar as part of its ingredient such as pasta, bread, etc...
The author of The book of Sin azúcar.org, Antonio R. Estrada, and creator of the blog with the same name. With a plain yogurt with strawberry jam you are ingesting 6.5 sugar cubes!!!”
We recommend organic Greek yogurt and kefir, which are sugar-free.
Fried tomato
Processed fried tomato is a bomb for your body as we are ingesting up to 9.4 terrores of sugar if the pot is small.
Flavored waters
What is the need to drink water with sweeteners and additives? A ready-made green The can contain up to 10.5 sugar cubes in a single glass, or a soy and orange drink contains 6.5 sugar cubes”. All these products are presented as healthy when the opposite is true.
Crab sticks
The food industry is looking for an outlet for everything that is offal, so products such as crab sticks are invented, made with surimi, whose composition consists of the meat of fish with little commercial outlet, the water is extracted and mixed with sugar, salt, flour, egg white and egg white. phosphates, among others.
As with sausages and sausages, in this case “surimi corresponds to the lowest quality fish”, such as Alaska pollock, a fish with a discreet flavor to which artificial flavorings are added to imitate the taste of other higher quality fish, from crab to lobster.
Gelatin
It is incomprehensible how gelatin has become fashionable lately thanks to advertising. Many people have incorporated gelatin into their diet because they believe it is high in protein. Gelatin is made from low quality collagen, a protein found in the connective tissue of animals, i.e. skin, tendons, cartilage and bones.
Saavedra says that despite what advertising says, gelatin is low in nutrients because the protein from collagen is of low quality. In addition, gelatins usually contain a lot of sugar and flavorings (additives). Gelatin itself is tasteless.
In a interview for the newspaper El Mundo said about the food industry and its role with respect to the consumer: "It's a business. The food industry has no interest in consumers having a good health, but in you consuming their products. Many baby food products are modifying their ingredients so that the word sugar does not appear on the label. They are using maltodextrins, but they are sugars. They play a lot with advertising and manipulation, trying to create the false idea that it's a healthy product."
So if you want to take care of yourself, take care of your diet.
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