I’ve been hearing a lot from my grandma lately about being careful
of what I am eating or choosing to eat, to always read the labels carefully
because some foods are fake. I always wondered
how that could possibly be true, I mean I look around the aisle in the
supermarket and the peanut butter looks like peanut butter, chocolate looks
like chocolate. How can they be fake?
Even if it was fake, how would they make it so much like what we think we it
is? So I began searching what kinds of foods that could possibly be fake and it
was quite surprising.
What I found was
that sometimes chocolate can be fooling. Some chocolates aren’t naturally made
from cocoa beans but a bunch of chemicals combined together with lots of sugar. It’s basically eating a spoonful of sugar.
The delicious cold
tasting ice cream you think would be made of milk is actually not real ice
cream at all. It contains less than 10%
of milk, so what does it contain? Loads of corn syrup sugar and whey. Appetizing huh?
Peanut butter is also not what it seems to be. The thick creamy tan looking butter with
peanuts? It actually contains lots of trans fat, hydrogenated oil.
Many times we get
confuse of what’s healthy and what’s not healthy when we’re shopping for
food. What seems to be healthy actually
isn’t all that healthy. Everything is
like an illusion, signs that are being advertised as healthy less fat chips,
healthy less fat that. Most of the time
we are fooled to see that what we think is healthy. Let’s take trail mix for example, contains a
variety of nuts, raisins, and dark chocolate.
But do we actually know that it’s healthy and nonfattening just from
reading the label? The truth is it’s
not, trail mix contains over 600 calories, the deep fried banana chips, the
chocolate, and even the nuts. We are all
masked in this illusion of what we are eating, the food labels and
everything. It’s important to read all
the labels to actually understand what is in the food we are buying.
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