■ Expert: Fan Zhihong
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, College of Food Science, China Agricultural University, Ph.D. in Food Science.
Contains fruit nutrition.
This statement is common on the packaging of drinks and snacks. Saying this means that there is some fruit or juice in it. But how much did you add? This is not clear. Unless you stare at the small print on the side of the package. Finally, it may be found that "the original juice content is ≥2.5%", that is to say, this juice can really be ignored.
It contains fruit nutrition, and it is not necessarily fresh fruit. Some products put a small piece of fruit, but this fruit has been sterilized at high temperature, or it is canned fruit, which can't compare with the nutritional value of fresh fruit. For example, the shelf life of yogurt with fruit blocks is 2 1 day. Do fruit blocks that have been kept for two weeks really have that great health value? Can it have such a strong fragrance? I like that product only because I like the fruit essence and sugar.
The so-called fruit nutrition, Nutrilite official website, is often just a marketing reason and a beautiful source. I really like fruit nutrition so much, why can't I take a few minutes out of 24 hours to eat a fresh fruit for myself? Or, to take a step back, why not buy a bottle of 100% pure juice that is extremely convenient to drink?
Contains two kinds of food nutrition.
This kind of statement is common in milk drinks and soybean milk drinks. There are both fruit raw materials and milk raw materials in the product, and then I tell you that the nutrition of fruit is not enough, and the nutrition of milk is not enough. Only drinking it is enough. Many people believe it, give up pure milk and fresh fruit, and let children drink these drinks instead.
Actually? This is a typical thinking tragedy led by advertising creative personnel. Smart consumers might as well think about it in reverse. The fact is this: milk is not as nutritious as pure milk; On fruit nutrition, it is not as good as pure fruit juice. Even, it doesn't even have the nutritional value of 50% milk and 50% fruit. There are thickeners, sugar and essence in it ... It is nothing more than using these things to attract consumers' tastes, so that those who are dissatisfied with the taste of milk and have unlimited love for sweet drinks can drink sweet "milk" justifiably.
It's ridiculous to say. People believe that "milk can't be drunk with fruit juice", and at the same time believe that "milk plus fruit juice is more nutritious"; On the one hand, I believe that "milk and soybean milk can't be drunk together", and on the other hand, I believe that "plant protein and animal protein can be drunk together". Is there a definite idea or not? It's true that advertisements believe everything they say, and they have no idea at all.
High dietary fiber
This expression is common in biscuits and desserts. Most modern people are seriously short of dietary fiber, and they can't even eat half of the recommended amount. So it's really a good thing to increase the supply of some fibers. So many people who love health will be attracted by such words. Even some products simply claim that "fiber content 10%" makes consumers more tempted. Unfortunately, these fibers do exist, but they are all saturated with oil.
This is because grains and beans mainly contain insoluble fiber, and their nature is "rough". Those who have a narrow voice and are used to being white and soft can't stand this rough feeling. 3% fiber can already bring the feeling of pricking your throat, let alone 10%? But why are these so-called high-fiber products still so outstanding in taste, rough but not rough? It is nothing more than the effect of grease "lubricating" inside.
The characteristic of fiber is that it softens after absorbing oil. Paper is a product made of cellulose. Tear off a small piece of napkin, it tastes like smoke, and soak it in oil. Does it feel much softer immediately? It is not difficult to tear it up and swallow it. Therefore, the higher the fiber, the higher the fat content. Moreover, because saturated fat softens fibers better, hydrogenated vegetable oil containing a lot of saturated fat or animal oil such as butter, lard and butter are usually used to take care of these products. ? There is no health value in this.
Contains vitamin C.
Vitamins are good things, especially vitamin C, which people know the most, because it has been endowed with the effect of "beauty beauty" by merchants, and it is almost a nutritional vocabulary that attracts women's attention. In drinks, as long as it is claimed that vitamin C is added, it will make women flock to it.
Actually, it's nothing rare to contain vitamin C, and it doesn't increase the cost much. If you only say that you have vitamins but don't say how much you have added, you basically don't have to count on it, because it is not intended to be responsible for the content. Besides, besides vitamin C, there are many health-care ingredients and nutrients in fruits, and there is nothing good except vitamin C in some drinks. Drinking it is not much different from eating a small tablet of vitamin C and drinking a cup of boiled water, but the small tablet is only 3 cents, while the drink costs several dollars, with a lot of sugar and essence added. Taikang foot bath and vitamin C may be degraded and oxidized. In fact, it is not as healthy as drinking white water and tablets.
Cholesterol free
All vegetable oils contain no cholesterol, so there is really nothing to boast about. To say such seemingly meaningless words is to take advantage of consumers' ignorance intentionally or unintentionally, suggesting that other oil products may contain cholesterol, which is suspected of unfair competition. Someone really told me to buy only a certain oil product because it "contains no cholesterol". I said, will other cooking oils have cholesterol? She said, then who knows, I'm just not sure ... I'm speechless. It's all vegetable oil. Where did you get the cholesterol? Unless you artificially add animal oil to it ...
Not containing cholesterol does not mean that this oil must have any special benefits for blood lipids, and it does not mean that eating this oil will not make people gain weight. Palm oil, for example, contains no cholesterol, but it is more saturated than lard. Containing cholesterol is not necessarily bad for health. For example, fish oil and cod liver oil contain cholesterol. Whether it contains cholesterol or not, it is most important to eat less oil and not to eat oil that has been heated many times.
Speaking of this, it suddenly occurred to me that it is fashionable to add some "healthy ingredients" to oil products, such as fish oil, which actually appears in blended oil. Consumers may wish to think about it, what is the price of high-grade fish oil for health care? What's the price of the blending oil you bought? Either fish oil is added too little or the grade of fish oil is too low. In fact, fish oil is a low-grade fat, which has a fishy smell, is easy to oxidize, and is particularly afraid of heat, so it can't be used for cooking. Japan's practice is to hydrogenate it, deodorize it, and then use it to make daily necessities such as soap. Now that fish oil is added to cooking oil, it should be heated by high fever, and the price of Jianerma pedicure machine should also be used as a selling point. I can't help worrying. I hope I worry too much ...
(Editor: Liu Yuting)