Snacks are harmful

Snacks are harmful, both adults and children like to eat snacks, many people are in a bad mood or to relieve the cravings of the time always have to eat some snacks, but snacks are really healthy? Adults and children can eat more than the following to understand the hazards of snacks related content.

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Hazard 1: Increase the burden on the kidneys

Many small food is the main component of starch, monosodium glutamate (MSG) and flavor, which is not able to meet the nutrients of human growth and development needs. Moreover, all kinds of "fine" is mostly chemical synthesis of industrial products, in addition to increase appetite, there is no benefit to the body. For example, saccharin is refined from coal tar, it is in addition to the sweet taste, a little calorie is not, and finally need to be discharged from the urine, but to the kidneys to increase the burden.

Hazard 2: Chronic poisoning

Some of the small food coloring is said to be "food coloring", but it is seldom natural, and most of them are synthetic chemicals. Their side effects can slowly attack the human body and cause chronic poisoning. Since chronic poisoning is not easy to detect, it is more harmful. If you consume fake and shoddy snack foods, it is even more harmful.

Hazard 3: Preservative poisoning and even death

Any kind of small snacks are added with preservatives to prevent food spoilage. There are two main types of preservatives: one is sorbic acid and the other is nitrite. Sorbic acid has fewer side effects but is expensive; nitrites are cheaper and have more side effects.

Hazard 4: Heavy metal poisoning

Some snacks are mostly packaged in plastic, although the plastic itself is non-toxic, but in the process of production, printing and packaging will be infiltrated with heavy metals, heavy metal deposition in the brain will seriously affect the intellectual development of people. Therefore, some regions of China's specialty foods can not be exported, the main reason is that the heavy metal content in the plastic packaging exceeds the standard. Color printing of packaging, packaging in the card, small toys, the pattern is also color printing, printing oil in the lead will make people produce lead poisoning, and lead poisoning is very difficult to cure.

Hazard 5: Excessive bacterial content

Not in line with health standards. The colony index (total number of bacteria per unit of measurement) in small snacks is seriously over the limit, and therefore very harmful. Too much entry of bacteria that are not beneficial to the human body can cause diarrhea, poisoning and other conditions.

Hazard 6: obesity

Part of the snacks are fried or high salt foods, which contain a lot of energy, and snacks contain additives, additives to the human body function has been impaired, it will cause the body to malignant obesity.

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The main ingredients of many small foods are starch, monosodium glutamate (MSG) and flavorings.

The nutrients can not meet the needs of human growth and development, and all kinds of "fine" is mostly chemical synthesis of industrial products, in addition to increase appetite, there is no benefit to the body.

For example, potato chips. The nutritional value of potato chips is very low, but also contains a lot of fat and energy, eat more will destroy the appetite, easy to lead to obesity, or the enemy of skin health.

There are also dried fruit, candied fruit, these foods, in the process of processing, fruit containing vitamin C is basically completely destroyed, in addition to a large number of calories, almost no other nutrients, and consume such a lot of sugar, will also lead to vitamin B and the lack of some trace elements.

And nuts can be said to be in many snacks in the nutritional content is relatively rich. In addition to rich protein, polyunsaturated fatty acids, but also contains vitamin e, a variety of b vitamins and iron, zinc, calcium, magnesium and other various minerals.

But it should be noted that the nutritional value is high, the intake of nuts is also the need to control. Nuts have a high fat content, ranging from 40% to 80%, and nuts are delicious, it is easy to overdo it if you are not careful. In addition, baked, salted or with a layer of sugar sauce nuts, destroying the original nutrients of the nuts, it is recommended to eat the original nuts.

When shopping for nuts, be on the lookout for mold and mildew, which can be very harmful to the human body.

Excessive snacking on our body is harmful, so we need to pay attention to moderation, if possible, try not to eat snacks, so as not to damage their own health.

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Common harmful snacks

1, vegetable potato chips

Vegetables in people's minds is almost synonymous with health, many people see vegetable potato chips subconsciously think he is healthy.

Many vegetable chips are made from processed vegetable flour and do not contain any actual vegetables.

These snacks contain the same amount of fat and calories as regular potato chips, and are more than 30% more expensive.

2, energy bars

Many people like to eat energy bars, but don't realize that they are loaded with chocolate, high fructose corn syrup, and artery-clogging saturated fat.

3. Low-fat peanut butter

Most people see "low-fat" and think it's a snack they can eat.

In fact, when the fat is removed from the peanut butter, more fat is added to these snacks to preserve the flavor.

Note: Be careful with portion sizes when eating these low-fat peanut butters.

4. Nut mix packets

While dried fruits and nuts can be energizing, these snacks are high in fat and calories.

And some sugar-coated fruits can easily give you 300 calories or more when you eat one serving, and a snack bag typically contains 2 to 3 servings.

5, fruit smoothies

Fruit salad contains: there are fruits, vegetables, fruit juices, ice cream, chocolate, whole milk and sugar, etc.

Fruit smoothies contain more calories than a hamburger, and some of them can be as high as 650 to 1000 calories.

6, frozen yogurt

Frozen yogurt seems much better than ice cream.

Frozen yogurt has added sugar and its calorie count can catch up with ice cream.

Note: Be especially wary of self-serve yogurt stores, which tend to have large cups and can end up using 500 to 800 calories if you fill the yogurt cups yourself.