Harmful fats

Trans fats are unsaturated fats obtained artificially from liquid vegetable oils. Through hydrogenation, liquid oils are turned into solids: margarines and spreads. This type of fat is harmful to our body; they completely change cell metabolism, promoting toxin accumulation.

As a result, systematically consuming trans fats in food increases the risk of diabetes development, lowers testosterone levels in men, increases the threat of atherosclerosis, obesity, and cancer.

Products that contain trans fats: margarines, soft vegetable blends, spreads, mayonnaise, confectionery products (cookies, cakes, pastries), frozen semi-finished products, processed cheeses, curd masses.

Everything is clear with margarine, but did you know that butter with a fat content of 72.5% is also not suitable for consumption. Natural butter has a fat content of no less than 82.5%.

Synthetic sugar substitutes

The most well-known artificial sugar substitutes – aspartame, saccharin, cyclamate – are extremely harmful to health.

So, the widely used aspartame breaks down at 30 degrees into formaldehyde, methanol, and phenylalanine, which causes insomnia, digestive disorders, headaches, accelerated heartbeat. Saccharin is carcinogenic, provoking tumor formation. Cyclamate is also highly allergenic.

Carbonated sweet drinks, lollipops, chewing gums, and `diet` sweets are sources of harmful sweeteners. If you want to reduce sugar consumption, use honey, fructose, stevia as alternatives.

Sausage products

So much has been written about the harmfulness of sausage products, but how delicious they look and smell! It`s just a pity that all these sausages, smoked and boiled sausages, store pates, and hams are just empty sound.

40% of the weight of these products consists of fats, skin, offal, and even bone meal, and the rest is gel, which in a special apparatus interacts with offal to form a `meat` piece. Flavor and color enhancers, preservatives, liquid for smoking (with formaldehyde) will do their job – aromatic and juicy pork is ready...

Don`t let manufacturers profit at the expense of your health, buy natural meat and prepare healthy dishes for your family from it, for example, homemade sausages.

The king of flavor – sodium glutamate (E-621)

What can be said... Sodium glutamate is added in large quantities to chips, crackers, bouillon cubes, sausage products, synthetic spices, which can`t be called harmless anyway. To protect yourself, carefully read the information on the packaging and refrain from buying such goods.

Chocolate products and caramel

In domestic trade, real chocolate is a rarity. Mostly, it`s a composition of various substitutes, hydrogenated fats, emulsifiers, and dyes. Choose dark. The composition of natural chocolate: cocoa butter (no palm, soy, or cotton in it), cocoa beans, lecithin, powdered sugar.

Caramel now has so many different essences that preserving tooth enamel is out of the question. The large amount of sugar doesn`t speak in favor of candies.

Semi-finished products and quick-prepare foods

If you count how many crab sticks are produced and consumed worldwide, it turns out that there aren`t enough crabs for this purpose.
There is no crab meat in the sticks, but there is fish mince, water, potato starch, vegetable oil, and a whole range of thickeners, flavorings, flavor enhancers. Whether to consume them or not is up to you, but many feline brethren refuse this product...

Instant noodles and mashed potatoes are familiar products to many. But think, do you need such a chemical attack on your body? Dumplings, cutlets, fish fingers, food from street vendors won`t enhance your health either.


Healthy food can be tasty: don`t let dishonest manufacturers manipulate your desires and habits. Live healthy!

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