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How to eat food?
Source: Health News
Professor of Food Science and Nutrition Engineering, China Agricultural University
A lot of convenience foods have high calorie, high fat, high salt, and vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber and other nutrient content is limited, long-term consumption will lead to nutritional deficiencies, such as iron deficiency anemia, lack of vitamins, zinc deficiency, affect health. Therefore, do not advocate convenience food as the mainstream food in daily life.
But with the improvement of people's living standards and the accelerated pace of life, people's diet has undergone great changes. Past corn, soybeans, wheat, sorghum, vegetables and aquatic products have been gradually replaced by meat, poultry, eggs and other convenient food. Convenient food to the public modern life has brought convenience, but also to people's health has brought a universal "civilization disease." Many urban and rural residents, especially those who go out and travel to the convenience of food-based. Convenience food has become an indispensable daily necessities of residents, and there is a gradual increase in the trend. Therefore, to master the selection and consumption of food convenience method, it seems necessary.
Carefully check the product packaging
Whether it is bulk or standardized specifications of the packaging of food, first of all to see the packaging of the health and quality of materials. In the choice of fast food, consumers should pay special attention to product packaging, especially in full bloom in need of microwave high temperature treatment of direct contact with food packaging materials and artifacts, should be colorless food hygiene standards in line with packaging materials.
Now the market does not need to heat the convenience of food, most of them are using polyurethane adhesive composite film bag for packaging. However, this composite film contains toluene diisocyanate, with this bag of food, after cooking will be transferred to the food, and hydrolysis to produce carcinogenic 2,4-diaminotoluene. Therefore, the composite film with polyurethane as the adhesive must be strengthened with the detection of toluene diisocyanate, which can not be used. Some fast food in the color of the plastic lunch boxes, cups, high temperature may lead to some of the bad things in the tableware decomposition of food hygiene and quality. Therefore, the bubble instant noodles should try to choose lunch boxes, eat on the train to use their own utensils.
Food labeling must be complete
Second, we should pay attention to the quality of health products. Should pay attention to the date of production of food and shelf life, expired food to avoid use. Expired food prone to fat oxidation rancidity, starch aging and other issues, affecting the taste and nutrition absorption. Consumers in the purchase of convenience food, should pay attention to the choice of high credibility of the manufacturers of food production. Regular manufacturers of food, the label must be in accordance with the "food labeling common standards", the correct labeling of the contents, including the name of food, ingredients list, net content and solid content, manufacturers and distributors name and address, production date And storage guide, quality level, product standard number, shelf life and so on. Only these items are marked more complete, can be safe to buy.
If you can find canned food cans, vacuum preservation of food bags, high-fat semi-finished products appear corrupt Hala flavor, should avoid buying and eating. Some of the bulk of ready-to-eat, cooked food, especially in summer because of lack of effective packaging, easy to cause food microbial contamination, such as food poisoning caused by pathogens, Staphylococcus aureus, it will not change the appearance or taste of food, and if not tested , Consumers are not easy to detect, it is easy to cause diarrhea. Therefore, tourists should try to avoid the choice of bulk food.
With fruits and vegetables more reasonable
Convenient food protein is not a high-quality protein, does not contain the body needs 9 kinds of amino acids, long as a meal, high-quality protein intake will be inadequate. In addition, the convenience of food lacks fresh vegetables, some of the necessary trace elements in the human body, especially vitamin C can not be ingested. Even if the spices inside the vegetables, due to dehydration, which has been basically destroyed the vitamins. If it is fried convenience food, it will contain carcinogenic acrylamide, especially young people should eat less.
Most fast food, instant products (including instant noodles, convenience rice, instant soup, etc.) nutrition are not balanced, can only provide high calorie to meet the human hunger, but are lack of vitamins. As a consumer, you can mix through a reasonable diet, so that nutrition is more balanced. For example, at home cooking instant noodles, you can put an egg, and then with some vegetables. In this way, high-quality protein can be compensated, vegetables, minerals and water-soluble vitamins can also make up for the lack of nutrients to achieve a balanced diet.
In addition, like plum, mustard such foods contain more salt, a small amount should be used. Instant noodles are not put into the spices should be based on personal taste, to minimize salt intake. Ham, sausage, such foods contain more preservatives, should also avoid excessive intake. Adolescents, obese people are often loyal supporters of food, but long-term consumption may have adverse effects on their body. Therefore, adolescents, obese patients should try to reduce the number of food consumption convenience.