Modern supermarkets pamper consumers with an abundance of products. It is difficult to refuse such a choice and the carts are filled with necessary and unnecessary food. What should you avoid and not fall for marketing gimmicks? What foods and products can play a cruel joke on your health?
Semi-finished goods
Often, every large supermarket has several ready-made food production facilities. Among them are cutlets, sausages, which are enough to warm up in the microwave or fry in a pan at home. All semi-finished meat products contain many preservatives, enhancers of color, taste, unhealthy fats, sugar, but meat contains a minimum – mostly ground offal or leftovers of cuttings, animal skins.
Ready baked goods
There are also a lot of bakeries in supermarkets that prepare delicious aromatic bakery products – it’s hard to resist! For baking, confectioners use ready-made mixtures for baking, and there is not enough useful in these mixtures, but sugar is above the norm.
Dressings and sauces
All these cheese and caesars have nothing to do with the original sauce, it’s just mayonnaise, brought to a taste close to the original with preservatives and additives. Your salad from a healthy one suddenly turns into a high-calorie unhealthy dish. An alternative is yogurt with herbs or sour cream with herbs.
Ready-made vegetable mixes
Rice with vegetables or a vegetable mixture seem to us to be a healthy and useful product. First, the frozen mix is inferior to fresh ingredients in terms of vitamin content. And secondly, the cost of such mixtures is exaggerated.
Muesli and bars
It has been proven many times that there is no usefulness in ready-made muesli and diet bars. Already cooked flakes lose all nutrients, and instead, the package contains an exorbitant dose of sugar and flavor enhancers.
Durum wheat pasta
What is stated on the packaging is often not true. Few manufacturers honestly use durum wheat flour, more often it is a mixture of different varieties and qualities. Focus on the price, good pasta cannot be cheap.
Sliced vegetables
Prepared salads are a potential hazard. When cutting vegetables, not only lose the lion’s share of vitamins and nutrients, but also give off juices, which turn into tasteless slurry and quickly deteriorate. And you cannot control what sauce the ready meals are seasoned with.
Специи
You gratefully buy ready-made herbal and aromatic spices, hoping to turn your dishes into real masterpieces. But here, too, manufacturers play on our naivety. By mixing spices with similar smell and color, but cheaper, significantly increasing the price and adding flavor enhancers, salt and sugar.
Tea in bottles
Under the guise of tea in a bottle, a concentrated, colored, sweetened drink is sold that also contains soda. This drink has nothing to do with brewed tea.
Products with fillers
Sweet fillers used to stuff confectionery and baked goods consist of only 20 percent of fruit puree, the rest is chemical starched compounds and a huge amount of sugar. The same applies to the sale of finished jam.